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blood red with an interrupted row of whitish spots and a whitish tip; other fins clear red, caudal with 

 a blood red edge, as also a stripe along fourth anal spine; ventral similarly, striped; pectoral pinkish. 



(2) From Apia. Whitish, olive shaded; i) stripes of brownish black, unequal in width and depth 

 of color, separated by white and grayish and pinkish stripes, the stripe on level of eye broad and 

 white, the two black stripes above it confluent behind as also the two below it; the white stripe from 

 axil of anal to axil of pectoral also broad; opercle reddish black; lower part of head and breast soiled 

 gray with blackish stripes; dorsal grayish wdiite with blackish median band; soft dorsal light yellow, 

 edged before with dark maroon; caudal light clear yellow, edged above and below with maroon black; 

 anal lighter yellow, with darker anterior stripe and a black maroon blotch at base; a maroon black 

 bar below soft dorsal made of two coalescent black stripes; ventral yellow, edged with maroon and 

 white; pectoral reddish, the axil blackish. 



(3) From Pago Pago. Very dark blood red, with whitish pink stripes; dorsal white, with median 

 black stripe; second dorsal yellowish, with red anterior margin and blackish blotch at base ; caudal 

 yellow wdth maroon stripes; anal yellowish with a black stripe and a spot at base; ventral yellowish, 

 with white and black stripe. 



(4) From Apia. Deep lustrous coppery red, paler below, the dark alternating with pale stripes, 

 the red very deep and bronze shaded above, growing paler and more diffuse below; about 7 streaks 

 distinct; head blackish freckled bronze; dorsal dark blood red, mesially pale and pale at tips'; soft 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal golden, with maroon stripe anteriorly narrow on soft dorsal; ventral similar 

 golden and maroon; breast soiled mottled brown and whitish; pectoral pale reddish brown. 



Holocentrus ruber differs from this species chiefly in the plain colors, red striped with deeper red. 

 Probably Holocentrus praslin is an "ontogenetic species" representing //. ruber on the coral reefs, and 

 differing mainly in the much heightened coloration. 



382. Holocentrus ensifer Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii; Mangareva (Seale). 



383. Holocentrus bowiei Jordan & Snyder. Tahiti. 



384. Holocentrus microstomus Giinther. Samoa; Guam; Tonga; Hawaii; Kingsmill I.; Paumotu 



Is.; Harvey Is. ; Tahiti; Tubuai; Raiatea and Rarotonga (Seale). 

 This species, well distinguished by its silvery body striped with dark, and by the dark area on 

 the front of its spinous dorsal, is rather common about Samoa, where about 12 .examples were taken. 

 It is not rare about Honolulu. From Holocentrus sammara, which has somewhat the same coloration, 

 it is known by the deeper body and smaller mouth. This species and the next, intermediate between 

 Holocentrus and Flammeo, render the latter genus difficult of definition. We therefore place all the 

 Pacific species in Holocentrus. 



385. Holocentrus scythrops Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii; Laysan; East Indies. 

 (Holocentrum argenteum Bleeker & Steindachncr, not of Quoy & Gaimard.) 



This species is rather rare about Hawaii. It was not seen at Samoa. It has been once or twice 

 described as Holocentrum argenteum, but the true argenteum, as Klunzinger has shown, is a different 

 species (lacteoguttatus) 



386. Holocentrus lsevis Giinther. Samoa; Louisiades; Solomon Is.; New Britain; New Guinea; 



Amboina. 

 Holocentrum goldiei Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1883, 352. New Guinea. 

 Holocentrum l®ve Giinther, Cat., i, 47, Louisiades, Guadalcanal-, Amboyna. Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 101, taf. 



65, fig. B. 

 Holocentrum novx-bHttaniai De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1884, 417, New Britain; young. 

 Holocentrus achromoptcrus Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1904, 23G, Samoa. 

 Holocentrum goldiei Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.W., VII, 1883, 352, New Guinea. 



This species is rather common about the reefs of Samoa, whereabout 20 examples were taken. It 

 resembles H sammara, but the body is deeper and there is never any black on the spinous dorsal. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, the stripes less regular and fewer than in H. sam- 

 mara, distinctly shown, the pale stripe on lateral line being dull red, dorsal paler, deep red between first 

 and second spines, the white band much broader and more diffuse; caudal almost plain; darker red on 

 edge of second dorsal and caudal, much deeper on anal; ventral paler red than in other; ventral and 

 anal spines red. 



