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Life colors of a specimen from Apia called taiva tusi, pearl-gray, darker on back; forehead very 

 dark brown, crossed by two bright blue stripes, both of which become golden yellow on eye, which 

 is crossed by a dark brown stripe; three pearly white stripes behind eye, the middle one fainter, 

 uniting near middle of body and proceeding to last ray of dorsal; fins pinkish gray; dorsal narrowly 

 edged with orange; anal with pale blue; anal and soft dorsal with some orange shading; lower half of 

 belly and head pure white. 



682. Scolopsis bilineata (Bloch). New Guinea (Macleay); Kandavu, Fiji(Kner); Shortland I. 



(Seale); East Indies; Ovalau and Levuka (Giinther). 



683. Scolopsis lineata (Quoy & Gaimard). Guam; Samoa (Giinther) ; Fate (Seale). 



684. Scolopsis ciliata (Lacepede). Vanicolo; New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



685. Scolopsis monogramma Kuhl & Van Hasselt. New Guinea (Macleay); Fate and New 



Hebrides (Seale); East Indies. 



686. Scolopsis temporalis Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Guinea (Macleay); Fiji (Giinther); Vani- 



colo; Waigiu; Louisiades; Solomon Is. (Seale). 



687. Scolopsis xenochrous Giinther. Misol. 

 Scolopsis xenochrous Giinther, Cruise of the Curacoa, 1873, 20. 



688. Scolopsis cancellata Cuvier & Valenciennes. Polynesia; New Hanover (Peters); East Indies. 



689. Scolopsis margaritifera Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



690. Scolopsis affinis Peters. New Ireland; New Britain. 



Scolopsis affinis Peters, Berl. Moil., 1876, 832, New Britain, New Iieland. 



691. Scolopsis macrophthalmus Ramsay & Ogilby. New Guinea. 



PENTAPUS Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



692. Pentapus caninus Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Guinea (Macleay); Louisiades; Apamana; 



Gilbert Is. (Giinther). 



693. Pentapus vittatus (Bloch). New Guinea (Giinther); Solomon Is. (Seale); East Indies. 



GNATHODENTEX Bleeker. 



694. Gnathodentex aurolineatus (Lacepede). Tolai. Samoa; Hervey Islands; Tonga; Gilbert 



Is.; Tahiti- Paumotu Is. ; Marcus I.; New Guinea (Macleay); Tubuai and Mangareva (Seale) ; 

 East Indies. 

 This species is common about Samoa, where about 15 specimens were taken. 

 Color of a specimen from Apia called tolai, light olive-gray; 6 to 8 very faint longitudinal stripes 

 of brownish bronze above lateral line, all of them disappearing behind middle of body; still fainter 

 streaks below lateral line; larger specimens with 5 broad, faint stripes of gold-bronze below lateral 

 line; an oblong spot of light yellow below soft dorsal; fins all plain light reddish, the edges a little 

 darker; opercular flap dark; inside of mouth orange. 



Family SPARID^E. 

 LETHRINUS Cuvier. (Sehour Forskal, 1775.) 



695. Lethrinus ramak (Forskal). Mailafo'u; Magauli. Samoa; Palau Is.; Kingsmill I.; Fiji, East 



Indies. 

 Scixna ramak Forskal, Descr. Anim., 53, 1775, Red Sea. 



Lethrinus ehrenbergii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 31, 1S30, Red Sea. 

 Lethrinus Jlavcscens Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VI, 299, 1836, Tonga. 



Lethrinus ramak, Giinther, Cat., i, 459, Red Sea, Ceylon. Giinther, Fische der Siidsce, 69, taf. 46, fig. b, Samoa, 

 Palau Is., Kingsmill, Celebes. 



This species is common at Samoa. Five large specimens were secured. 



