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776. Mulloides flammeus Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii; Kaiatea and Tahiti (Seale; perhaps 



the young of M. pflugeri). 



777. Mulloides pflugeri Steindachner. Hawaii. 



778. Mulloides zeylonicus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). New Guinea (Bleeker); Ceylon. 



Family TOXOTIDJE. 

 TOXOTES Cuvier. 



779. Toxotes jacalatrix (Pallas). New Guinea (Macleay); Fat£, New Hebrides (Seale); East 



Indies. 



Family SILLAGINID£. 



SILLAGO Cuvier. 



780. Sillago sihama (Forskal). Admiralty Is. (Giinther); Bougainville Is. (Peters, Berl. Mon. 



1876, 836); East Indies. 



781. Sillago ciliata Cuvier & Valenciennes. Percy I.; New Guinea (Macleay); Australia. 



782. Sillago insularis Castelnau. New Caledonia. 



Sillago ciliata or insularis Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict. 1873, 113, New Caledonia. 



783. Sillago gracilis Macleay. New Guinea. 



Sillago gracilis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1884, 279, Hall Sound. 



Family MALACANTHID.€. 

 MALACANTHTJS Cuvier. 



784. Malacanthus parvipinnis (Vaillant & Sauvage). Hawaii. 



OCEANOPS Jordan & Seale, new genus. 

 Oceanops Jordan & Seale, new genus of Malaoanthidte (M. latovillatus Laee'pede). 



785. Oceanops latovittata (Lac<jpede). Gatasami. Samoa; Palau Is.; Papua; East Indies. (PL 



xxxix.) 



This singularly beautiful fish is rather rare at Samoa. Two large specimens were taken at Pago 

 Pago. The large size and brilliant blue coloration distinguish this species, in a very marked manner, 

 from its dull gray-colored congeners. It has also a much longer, pike-like snout, thus unlike Mala- 

 canthus plumieri and parvipinnis. It may be held as the type of a distinct subgenus or genus — Oceanops — 

 this appellation being a translation of the native name. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago called gatasami (eye of the sea), intense violet blue; 

 back black, with the blue reduced to streaks; jet black lateral band; belly abruptly white; dusky 

 across base of pectoral; dorsal dusky at base, abruptly grayish above; caudal black, with a white 

 square, bluish white stripe above, upper angle brown; anal whitish; ventral whitish; pectoral blue. 



Family PSEUD0CHR0MID.€. 

 PSEUDOCHROMIS Muller & Troschel. 



786. Pseudochromis fuscus Muller & Troschel. Solomon Is. ; Yap I.; Palau Is.; East Indies. 



PSEUDOGRAMMA Bleeker. 



787. Pseudogramma poly-acanthus (Bleeker). Tahiti; Fiji; Marcus I.; Eaiatea, East Indies. 

 Pseudochromis yolyacanthus Bleeker, Ternate, vn, 375, 185G, Ternate. Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. \Vien 1867, 717, Fiji 



Giinther, Fische der Sudsee, 159, taf. 98, fig. a, Tahiti, Raiatea. Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 523 

 Tahiti. 

 Pseudogramma polgacanthus, Bryan & Herre, Bishop Museum, vol. n, no. 1, 1903, 139, Marcus 1. 



