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orange on first soft ray, and yellow and orange dashes behind; pectoral pale, the axil golden, the 

 upper ray and a bar across base blue, the latter with golden and bluish edge behind; lips very thick; 

 some scales on cheek. A smaller example has the ventrals brighter, orange and blue; otherwise it is 

 the same. 



Another specimen from Apia, a large one, was uniform blackish green, the scales showing traces 

 of green and violet markings when examined closely; belly bronze brownish, with a violet spot on 

 each scale, these violet shades scattered over the sides; cheek and interopercle clear olive green; lips 

 dusky olive; a bright grass-green ring about eye; a dull dark blue blotch behind eye; preorbital, 

 suborbital, lower and upper part of cheek and opercle dull bronze-orange with sharp vermiculations; 

 throat reddish gray; dorsal blackish, orange, very dark, with a dark blue edge and a dark blue stripe 

 below; many deep violet spots on membranes; caudal violet blackish, shaded with green on rays and 

 edged with dull orange; violet spots and vermiculations; anal dusky orange, a deep violet blue intra- 

 marginal band, and with deep violet spots; ventral orange, with large blue spots; pectoral dusky 

 bluish, paler below. 



A specimen called alali moana, from Apia, was deep blue black with olive shades behind front of 

 first dorsal and vent; shoulder light green with dull orange spots, the shade becoming golden olive 

 behind gill-opening and on opercle and cheek; the breast, throat, and belly gray; pink shades on 

 opercle; a pink stripe below eye; a large violet-coppery blotch behind eye, with deep violet spots 

 within, these having paler centers; forehead coppery violet, mottled with green; bright blue close 

 behind eye; dorsal violet black, with green on basal scales, then bright blue marblings anteriorly; 

 violet-blue spots on membranes, with marginal stripes of deep violet-blue, light pinkish brown and 

 black; caudal olive-black, with a median narrow stripe of violet-blue from base to tip; anal brown 

 suffused with blue, with violet-blue spots, and blue, pinkish, and black edgings; ventral colorless, 

 olive-shaded, the anterior rays pink, margined ttefore and behind by dusky blue; pectoral colorless, 

 the upper edge blue. Canines 2-2; no posterior canines; a few scales on cheek; lateral line continuous. 



Life colors of a specimen called paumulu, from Apia, posterior parts, behind middle of 

 pectoral, deep brownish black; anterior parts abrupt!}' soiled gray;~dark brown on top of head, with 

 bluish reticulations; upper lip gray, lower whitish; a whitish undulate streak below eye; axil black; 

 dark brown spots about eye; dorsal dark brown, lighter above with streaks of bluish; anal similar, 

 with a blue stripe and an orange margin; caudal with peduncle light brown, spotted with blue; 

 pectoral colorless; ventral tinged with orange. 



902. Hemigymnus fuliginosus (Lacepede). Samoa; Carolines; New Guinea (Macleay); East 



Indies. 

 Mullus fasciatus Thunberg, Reise nach Japan, iv. 1791, 351, pi. 3H, City of "Meaco" (doubtless Miyakoshima, 



Temple I., one of the Riukiu group); not of White, 1790, which is a species of Amia. 

 Sparus fuliginosus Lacepede. Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 437, 1802, He de France. 

 Spams malapleronolus Lacepede, op. cit., 450, lie de France. 

 Sparus zonepliorus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 155, 1803; after Eloch. 

 Sparus meaco Lacepede, op. cit., 161; after Thunberg. 

 Sparus quinquefascialus Bennett, Fishes Ceylon, 1S39, pi. 23, Ceylon. 

 ? Tauloga mertensi Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xm, 308, 1839; Carolines. 

 Cheilinus blochi Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIV, 1839, 108; after Labrus fasciatus Bloch. 

 Tautoga leucomus Bleeker, Biliton, iv, 239, Biliton; young. 

 Hemigymnus leucomus Giinther, Cat., iv, 139, 1862. 



Of this species we have one large specimen from Apia. The name fasciatus is not tenable for it, 

 having been preoccupied. 



ANAMPSES Cuvier. Sugale. 



903. Anampses cuvieri Quoy & Gaimard. Hawaii. 



904. Anampses caeruleopunctatus Ruppell. Sugale lupe. Samoa; Tahiti; Guam; New Guinea 



(Macleay); Rarotonga (Seale); East Indies. 



This species is not uncommon in the South Seas. We have 9 specimens from Apia. 



Life colors of a specimen called sugale lupe, olive, the belly gradually scarlet; each scale with a 

 violet-blue spot, edged with blackish blue, these confluent into streaks behind and below eye; dorsal 

 orange-brown, spotted with blue and blue-edged; caudal like body, the spots smaller, the edge dusky 

 and then whitish; anal bright orange-brown, spotted with blue and with blue edge, the lowest (basal) 

 row of blue spots oblong; ventral orange streaked with blue; pectoral yellowish; dark brown at base. 



