298 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



and the belly ia not very pale, its coloration not sharply separated from that of the sides. Stethojulis 

 bandanensis is a slenderer fish, and the belly is abruptly whitish, with a dark shade on each scale. 



This species is very common ahout the coral reef at Apia, where we obtained 55 specimens. We 

 also collected 9 at Pago Pago. Life colors of a specimen from Apia, gray, silvery on lower half; every- 

 where with fine lengthwise streaks of white, these broader and more conspicuous below, especially the 

 one below eye, which has a dark streak above it; a small jet-black spot in axil of dorsal and one on 

 upper part of caudal peduncle just before base of caudal; fins all pale (in young of 2 inches). 



A specimen from Pago Pago was olive-green, posteriorly purplish; cheek abruptly golden; anterior 

 region with fine pale dots; whitish pink spots along side; a white spot across base of pectoral; a black 

 ocellus on last rays of dorsal, anal and base of caudal; fins otherwise light orange. Another specimen 

 has three caudal ocelli. 



Another specimen from Apia has its upper half grayish dusky with very fine bluish-white dots; a 

 grayish lateral band, edged with dark above, a broad metallic purplish gray band below it, the belly 

 silvery, each scale with a dark purplish -gray basal spot, two black pale-blue-edged ocelli on caudal 

 peduncle, a black bar across base of pectoral, a bright scarlet dash in axil, with blue on each side of it; 

 side of head below eye abruptly golden; chin and throat white; dorsal golden brown, finely dotted; 

 caudal dull yellowish; ventral, pectoral, and anal colorless, belly livid blue at base of anal. 



922. Stethojulis filholi Sauvage. 



Stethojulis filholi. Sauvage, Bull. Sci. Phil. 1880, 15 (reprint), Fiji. 



923. Stethojulis kalosoma (Bleeker). New Guinea ( Macleay ) ; East Indies. 



LEPTOJULIS Bleeker. 



924. Leptojulis pardalis Kner. Fiji; Guam; Samoa. (PI. xlv, fig. 3.) 

 LeptojuUspardal.il Kner, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien 1867, 727, taf. in, fig. 2 (fig. 9 in text), Viti Levu (Fiji Is.). 

 Platyglossus nigromaculatus Gtinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 666, pi. 60, Samoa. 



Halichares nigropunctatus Seale, Bishop Museum, 1901, 89, Guam. 



We have 4 specimens of this handsome species, taken at Apia. Life colors of one of these, 

 clear olive-green, yellow below; everywhere with reticulations of ground-color, yellow with blue 

 margins around the black; these marks orange-brown instead of black on forehead, lower part of 

 head, and belly; oblique dark stripes from eye around jaws, edged with light blue; dorsal, caudal 

 and anal similarly marked, the brown becoming distally very bright clear orange-brown; ventral 

 yellow, orange banded ; pectoral plain; dorsal edge of body clear olive brown; greenish cross-bars 

 on head. 



A canine tooth; scales rather large; lateral line continuous; a low dorsal sheath ; body compressed. 



MACKOPHAHYNGODON Bleeker. 



This well-marked genus consists of small species, deep bodied and beautifully colored, the lower 

 pharyngeals very small, with large teeth. 



925. Macropharyng-odon g-eoffroy (Quoy & Gaimard). Hawaii. 



926. Macropharyng-odon meleagris (Cuvier & Valenciennes). New Guinea; Samoa; Ulea; 



Shortland I. (Seale); East Indies. 



Julis meleagris Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIII, 481, Ulea. 



Macropharyngodon geoffroyi Bleeker, Atlas, Labr., 129, tab. xxxvn, fig. 5, Celebes; not of Quoy & Gaimard. 



Platyglossus geoffroyi, Giinther, Cat.,iv, 145 (copied). 

 This species is scarce about Samoa, one fine example being taken at Apia. Life colors, violet- 

 brown; a large, bright-green spot edged with blue on each scale, these confluent into short stripes on 

 the head; belly mostly light blue; a violet-black spot on breast; dorsal orange, shaded with bluish at 

 base, edged with gray, two rows of clear green blue-edged spots; caudal dull orange, brighter on upper 

 and lower margins and covered mesially with large greenish-blue spots; anal dull orange with three 

 rows of greenish, blue-edged spots, the middle series confluent in a band; ventral dull orange, spotted 

 with green; pectoral colorless, dusky at base, the axil green; a jet-black spot edged with yellow on 

 side above and a little behind base of pectoral. 



