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387. Holocentrus sammara (Forskal). Malaupeapea. Hawaii; Tahiti; Samoa; Borabora; Pau- 



motu It-.; Solomon Is.; Guam; New Guinea; Thornton I.; Marquesas Is. (Seale); East Indies. 



Labrus angulosus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ill, 430, pi. 22. lig. 1, 1803. 



Holocentrum christianum Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in. 219, 1829, Red Sea. 



Holocentrum tahiticum Kner, Novara Fische, in, 1869, f. 2. pi. 16, Tahiti. Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1864, 482, Tahiti. 



Holocentrus fuscostriatus Seale, Bishop Mus., 1901, 69, Guam. 



Holocentrus thorntonensis Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1904, 231, Thornton I. (young). 



This handsome fish is very common on the reefs at Samoa, where about 100 examples were taken. 

 It is rare about Hawaii. 



The species varies considerably in the distinctness of the dark maroon lateral stripes, but the black 

 on the first dorsal is never absent. In the young it takes, the form of an ocellus. Such a young 

 example is the type of Holocentrus thorntonensis. Life colors were noted as follows in various specimens : 



(1) Specimen from Apia. Silvery, with golden, red, and greenish reflections; back with fourstripes 

 of dark maroon red, the second and third brightest; head dark red above, mostly silvery, with red 

 wash below; lips flesh color; opercle dark red above; fins pale red, the spinous dorsal broadly edged 

 with blood red; caudal witli a maroon stripe in each lobe, anal and ventral also; no pale edging. 



(2) From Apia. Olive, lustrous purplish above, coppery silvery below; each scale with a large 

 distinct coppery black spot, these forming about ten stripes; cheek whitish with black spots; head 

 wine-shaded on lips, snout, and opercle; preopercle white; dorsal maroon, whitish spots at base, tips 

 white; front of dorsal with large black, red-w r ashed blotch; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal golden yellow, 

 with a long maroon stripe on anterior rays, covering most of caudal lobes; pectoral coppery reddish; 

 ventral white. 



(3) Young specimen from Apia. Red, with a large black blotch on front of spinous dorsal, a dark 

 red stripe in each caudal lobe and on front of soft anal; a dark band across opercle. 



(4) From Apia. Silvery rose; brownish above with stripes of rosy maroon, all but one indistinct, 

 the bright one following course of lateral line; opercle dark maroon ; dark band across base of pectoral ; 

 front of dorsal with very large blotch of maroon black, fin otherwise flesh-color, tips whitish; soft 

 dorsal yellow, transparent behind, with maroon stripe in front; anal whitish with maroon stripe; 

 pectoral and ventral nearly white; caudal pale orange, the lobes rosy maroon. 



388. Holocentrus opercularis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Tahiti; New Ireland; Samoa; Palauls. ; 



Paumotu Is.; Guam. 



This strongly marked species is well figured by Dr. Giinther. Two specimens were taken at Samoa. 



Life colors of one from Pago Pago, light red, each scale with a darker center and a silvery edge; 

 dark streaks along rows of scales; head red; opercle blood red; iris very red; first dorsal jet black, 

 with a row of white spots at base and tip; second dorsal, anal, and caudal red, with a darker bar in 

 front and a shade of orange behind; pectoral and ventral pink; pectoral red at base; a red shade down 

 and back from eye. Mouth large; chin prominent; anal spine long; body slender. 



Family LAMPRIILE. 



LAMPRIS Retzius. 



389. Lampris regia (Bonnaterre). Hawaii; all warm seas. 



The name Zeus regius of Bonnaterre and that of Zeus guttatus of Briinnich, both 1788, antedate 

 Zeus luna of Gmelin (1789). We do not know which of these first has actual priority, but regius is a 

 name preferable to the commonplace and overworked specific name guttatus. It is true, however, that 

 the name guttatus lias been more generally used than that of regius, and the account given by Briinnich 

 is the best found in any early author. Following the arbitrary rule which we have adopted, the name 

 regius on page 72 in Bonnaterre' s work antedates guttatus on page 398 in that of Briinnich. 



Family ZFADAl. 

 STETHOPRISTIS Gilbert. 



390. Stethopristis eos Gilbert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



CYTTOMIMTJS Gill. 



391. Cyttomimus stelgis Gilbert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



