308 BULLETIK OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



light vitriol blue; pectoral with a yellowish green crossbar at base, then dusky green, black on pos- 

 terior edge with a vertical median band of vivid clear blue; ventral blue black. Another was, in lite, 

 green, rather than blue; dorsal and anal yellowish green. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, dorsal blue-green growing yellowish green at margin; 

 anal and caudal similar; body purplish green with dark pinkish maroon and light olivaceous scale 

 markings. 



994. G-omphosus sandwichensis Giinther. Hawaii. 



CIRRHILABRTJS Schlegel. 



995. Cirrhilabrus jordani Snyder. Hawaii. 



996. Cirrhilabrus solorensis Bleeker. New Guinea (Macleay). 



CHEILINTJS Lacepede. 



997. Cheilinus trilobatus Lacepede. Sugale matamumu; Lalafi. Samoa; Tahiti; New Guinea; 



Ladrones; Guam; Fiji; New Hebrides; Kingsmill I.; HowlandL; Ponape; Futuna; Hawaii 

 (Quoy & Gaimard — as Cheilinus sinuosus, Cheilinus polygramm,"S Cuvier & Valenciennes, 

 and Cheilinus maculosus Cuvier & Valenciennes); East Indies. 

 This wide-spread species is very abundant about Samoa. We have 26 specimens from Apia, and 



9 from Pago Pago. Quoy & Gaimard record it from Hawaii, but no subsequent collector has seen it 



there. Life colors were noted in various specimens as follows: 



(1) From Apia. Olive-gray; a series of greenish blue cross-streaks, very numerous and well- 

 defined; pale cherry-red cross-shades between them; head with radiating streaks and spots of crimson; 

 chin dull, blunt; dorsal light olive with cherry-red edge and intramarginal streak; soft rays mostly 

 colorless; a little dusky spot at base; caudal dusky, edged all around with pale, the tip and edge 

 mostly red; anal olive with green rays, and two red marginal; ventral with blue rays, an olive blotch, 

 and a pink edge; pectoral yellow olive; dark olive at base. 



(2) From Apia. Blackish green; a bright orange-red vertical stripe on each scale, these faint or 

 obsolete posteriorly; head with many bright scarlet stripes and dashes; spinous dorsal olive-green 

 with two scarlet stripes and about four diffuse cross-shades; soft dorsal clear pinkish orange, the rays 

 yellow; no bars or spots; anal dark olive and pinkish orange in streaks, paler behind; no spots; caudal 

 dark olive-green washed with scarlet at tip, yellow-olive between; ventrals pink orange, the rays dark 

 olive-green; pectoral light yellowish olive; throat livid dusky blue; breast coppery green; caudal 

 rounded. 



(3) From Apia. Marbled olive-green with four diffuse blackish bars; each scale with a brown 

 vertical streak; head with curved and vertical streaks and bars; spinous dorsal mottled orange, green 

 and brown, soft translucent pink; anal similar, its edge broadly translucent pink; pectoral fleshy red; 

 ventral olive and reddish barred. 



(4) From Pago Pago. Dark olive-greenish with pinkish and greenish vertical linear scale spots; 

 head richer dark green with pink linear and spotty markings; pectorals thin, yellowish; ventral with 

 green rays and pink interspaces; anal with pink submarginal line and anterior half with second pink 

 line; general color greenish and bluish; caudal dark bluish; green at base, paler at tip; small round 

 jet-black spot before base of caudal. 



998. Cheilinus hexagonatus Giinther. Hawaii; Johnston I. 

 (Cheilinus zonurus Jenkins.) 



999. Cheilinus pulchellus Sauvage. Fiji. 



Cheilinus pulchelius Sauvage, Bull. Sci. Philom., 1880, 14 (reprint), Fiji. 



1000. Cheilinus fasciatus (Bloch). Lalaji pulepule. Samoa; Guam; Solomon I.; PalauL; New 



Guinea; Kingsmill I. ; Vavau; Ponape; Fate; Shortland I. and Rarotonga (Seale) ; East Indies. 



This species has a wide range extending from the Red Sea to the islands of the Pacific. It is very 

 common about Samoa; we have 50 specimens from Pago Pago and 7 from Apia. Life colors were 

 noted in various specimens as follows: 



(1) From Pago Pago. Below eye thin brick-red extending, somewhat smoky, over dorsum just in 

 front of dorsal fin; breast region vermilion; upper head very smoky greenish with short reddish lines 



