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Family ICOSTEID/E. 



SCHEDOPHILTJS Cuvier. 

 486. Schedophilus medusophagus Cocco. OH Samoa (Giinther). 



Family STROM ATEIDyE. 



LEIRUS Lowe. 



467. Leirus maculatus (Giinther). South Seas. 



468. Leirus paucidens Giinther. Between New Guinea and Japan. 



Lirus paucidens Giinther, Pelagic Fishes Challenger, 1S88, 11, open sea north of New Guinea. 



Family RACHYCENTRID^E. 



RACHYCENTRON Kanp. ( Elacale Cuvier. ) 



469. Rachycentron pondicerrianum Cuvier & Valenciennes. Vanicoio; East Indies. 



Family ANOMALOPID£. 

 ANOMALOPS Kner. (Heterophthalmus Bleeker. ) 



470. Anomalops palpebratus Kner. Fiji; Paumotuls.; Celebes. 



Family PEMPHERIM;. 



PEMPHERIS Cuvier. 



471. Pempheris oualensis Cuvier & Valenciennes. Manifi; Fo a'ao. Oualan, or Strong Island; 



Tahiti; Guam; Vanicoio; Samoa; Kingsmill I. ; Caroline Is. ; New Guinea (Macleay). 

 Pempheris oualensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 299, 1831, Oualan. 

 Pempheris otaitensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, op cit., VII, 304, 1831, Tahiti. Giinther, Cat., n, 568, China, Amboyna. 



Kner, Novara Fische, 171, Java. Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 102. Seale, Bishop Museum 1901, 74, Guam. 



Sauvage, Poiss. Madagascar, 286, Tahiti. 

 Pempheris mangula Gvinther, Fische der Siidsee, 102, taf. 59, fig. b, Samoa, Vanicoio, Kingsmill I., Caroline Is., 



Tahiti; not of Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Of this species, sharply distinguished by the presence of a large black spot on the base of the 

 pectoral, we have about a dozen fine specimens from Samoa. Life colors of a specimen from Apia, 

 dirty olive, sides silvery; dorsal dirty olive, its anterior rays black; caudal pale within, the outer rays 

 dirty dull red; anal gray, its base blackish; pectoral reddish, the anterior rays quite red, its base jet 

 black; ventral gray; axil jet black; body with some violet luster. 



472. Pempheris vanicolensis Cuvier & Valenciennes. Pula. Vanicoio; Samoa; He de France. 



Pempheris vanicolensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 305, 1831, Vanicoio. 

 Pempheris nesogallica Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., VII, 306, 1831, He de France. 



Three specimens taken in the seine at Apia. This species is well distinguished by the entire 

 absence of black on the base of the pectoral. Depth 2.2 in length. We see no reason for supposing 

 this species to be identical with the Indian species Pempheris mangula. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, coppery black; dorsal and anal pale, the lobes tipped with 

 jet black; pectoral golden; ventral orange, blackish at base; no spot at base of pectoral. 



Family SCORPID^. 

 MONODACTYLTJS Lacepede. 



Monodactylus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 131, 1802 (falciformis). 

 Centropodus Lacepede, op. cit.., nx, 303, 1802 (rltombeus=argenteus) . 

 Acanthopodus Lacepede, op. cit., iv, 558, 1803 (argenteus). 

 Psettus Cuvier (argenteus). 

 This genus is distinguished from Psettias Jordan, new genus (sebu-) by the rounded outline of the 

 body, which is not deeper than long. In Psettias it is very much deeper than long. 



