288 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



A. brownrkjgii, of Ceylon and the East Indies, has a similar blue dorsal stripe, but according to the 

 figures of Bennett, Bleeker and Day it lacks the large black spot at upper base of caudal. All our 

 specimens in spirits have the opercle white, with a black spot at tip. The species may, however, 

 prove inseparable from A. brownriggii. 



Life colors were noted in various specimens as follows: 



(1) From Apia. Bluish-black with blue and golden clots; a vivid blue stripe on each side of back; 

 a black ocellus below soft dorsal; a larger one at base of caudal above; opercle golden with a black 

 spot; axil not black; caudal peduncle before spot pale; dorsal orange and dusky bluish in alternate 

 stripes; caudal orange-yellow; anal yellowish with oblique bluish stripes, very faint, the outer rays 

 dusky; belly yellow, the breast and throat dark blue; ventral dusky orange; pectoral golden. 



(2) From Apia. Blue-olive, with many blue dots; belly and tail golden; a broad vivid blue stripe 

 along back; two black spots above it, the second in axil of last ray largest; a black band nearly across 

 base of caudal; opercle golden with a black spot; a golden bar behind pectoral; fins all golden, the 

 soft dorsal and anal orange at tip; first dorsal soiled with bluish; anal with a blue anterior edge. 



(3) From Apia. Olive, a broad stripe of intense blue from snout' above to base of caudal above, 

 the two meeting around snout and around dorsal; abroad black median band on top of head to nape; 

 two deep blue-black spots under soft dorsal, in front and in axil, the second the larger; a small spot at 

 upper base of dorsal; belly gradually yellow; dorsal, anal, caudal, and ventral deep orange; pectoral 

 a little paler; a blue streak along lower side of eye. 



(4) From Pago Pago. Golden; blue back; two ocelli. 



862. Abudefduf uniocellatus (Quoy & Gaimard). Taupou. Samoa; Fiji; Tonga; Marquesas Is.; 



Futuna; Vanicolo; New Hanover; East Indies. (PI. xliii, fig. 2.) 

 (fGlypkisodon assimilis Gunther.) 



This beautiful species is very common about Samoa, where about 100 specimens were taken on the 

 reefs. There is some difference in the color of the sexes, the females having the' dorsal more or less 

 yellow, the fin in the males being blue. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, called taupo, most vivid blue with violet cross-streaks on back; 

 scales on side with yellow dots; belly and lower part of side abruptly yellow; dorsal deep blue, the 

 edge almost black, with a pale violet-blue median band; soft dorsal with an indigo-black blotch at 

 base of last rays, anterior edge indigo-black, the median part blue-violet; caudal deep orange, bluish 

 at base and above, the upper edge indigo-black ; anal deep orange, its axil blue; pectoral and ventral 

 blue, the ventral with some orange shade. 



A specimen from Pago Pago was of deepest clear blue, sides with many small round golden spots; 

 sides of head with violet specks; a black-violet streak from snout to eye, and upward and backward; 

 three dark spots forming this streak; belly clear orange-yellow; dorsal deep blue; a large black blotch 

 at base of last rays: soft dorsal pale orange, deep blue at base, the margin deep blue black; caudal 

 orange-red, blue at base, the upper margin deep blue black; ventral orange-red, blue-edged; pectoral 

 colorless. 



863. Abudefduf taupou Jordan & Seale, new species. Vaiuli soma; Taupou. (PI. xliii, fig. 3.) 



Head 3.75 in length; depth 2.75; eye 3 in head, equal to interorbital space; dorsal xiii, 11; 

 anal n, 11; scales 2-16-9. 



Body, oblong, compressed; snout rounded; a single row of fine compressed teeth in each jaw; 

 preorbital narrow, about one-half as wide as pupil, its marginsmooth and rounded; margin of preopercle 

 smooth; head, excepting snout, scaled; depth and length of caudal peduncle equal, and equal to post- 

 ocular part of head; fourth dorsal spine 1.50 in head; the soft rays of dorsal much longer, about equal 

 to head; pectoral equal to head; ventral prolonged into a filament which reaches beyond origin of 

 anal; caudal more or less rounded. 



Color in spirits a deep slaty blue black; the belly abruptly yellowish white; a distinct black spot 

 on posterior base of soft dorsal at axil; an indistinct black line extending back from the posterior of 

 orbit; dorsal fin washed with yellowish white and having a distinct black margin which extends out 

 to tip of fin; the lower half of fin blue; caudal yellowish white; the upper ray black; anal yellowish; 

 ventral yellowish. Some specimens have a wash of dusky on base of anal and base of caudal. 



The female fish is without the dark margin to dorsal and caudal, the fins being uniform yellowish 

 white in spirits." 



