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ANYPERODON Gimther. 



539. Anyperodon leucogrammicus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Gatala aleva. Samoa; Ponape; 



Caroline Is.; New Hebrides; New Guinea (Maeleay); East Indies. 

 Of this handsome species, 7 adult specimens were taken at Apia. Life colors of one of these, clear 

 olive-green, with 4 faint interrupted stripes of white, the second and third widened and distinct at 

 intervals, forming 2 white spots on side; lowest stripe very distinct across cheek; side with about 8 

 rows of bright orange-brown spots, not ocellated or reticulated; head with smaller spots; lower parts 

 of head coppery red; spinous dorsal olive with 3 rows of large orange spots; second dorsal, anal, and 

 caudal green, dorsal and anal with a spot at base of each ray; pectoral pale olive; ventral dusky olive, 

 both unspotted. Body elongate; caudal rounded; teeth in 2 rows below. 



VARIOLA Swainson. 



540. Variola louti (Forskal). Fa manaia. Tahiti; Samoa; Paumotu Is.; New Hebrides; Solomon 



Is.; Marshall Is.; Fate (Seale). 



Of this beautiful and widely diffused species, 10 specimens of different sizes were taken at Apia 

 and Pago Pago. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, greenish above, rosy below; upper spots clear violet; 

 lower lateral spots cherry-red; crimson on tail, the edges of spots dark, the spots largely lake; dorsal 

 deep red, with spots of violet and lake; caudal similar, similarly golden behind; pectoral purplish, 

 pale golden behind, violet spotted at base; ventral clear red, red spotted at base, tinged with golden 

 at tip; spots arranged in lines, the lateral spots oblong. 



541. Variola flavimarginata (Buppell). Samoa; East Indies. 

 Serranus flavimarginatus Ruppell, Atlas Rothen Meeres, 109, 1828, Red Sea. 



Variola flavimarginata, Bleeker, Verh. Ak. Amst., iv, 9, 1873, East Indies. Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., VII, 23, tab. 



CCT.xxxix, fig. 1. 

 Sen-anus melanokenia Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Ned., II, 1857, Amboina. 



Of this rare species, overlooked by Dr. Boulenger, we have one fine specimen from Apia. It has 

 the general form of Variola louti, but a very different coloration, there being a broad black band along 

 the upper part of the side. 



Fig. 49. — Variola flavimarginata {Ruppell). 



Life colors, ground-color pinkish salmon, whiter region behind pectoral; a velvet blackish longi- 

 tudinal band, side above brownish salmon; spots whitish below and posteriorly; elsewhere purple-pink 

 with lake border. 



CEPHALOPHOLIS Bloch & Schneider. 



This genus, as here understood, diifers from Epineplieliw in having but 9 dorsal spines. There is 

 considerable difference among the species in the form of the skull, but in this regard few of the Pacific 

 species have been examined. It here includes Enneacenlrus and Petrometopon of Gill, llenephorm of 

 Poey, and Bodianus Cuvier (not of Bloch). 



