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1013. Psuedocheilinus hexataenia Bleeker. l'atusitusi. Samoa; Tahiti; Phoenix I. ; East Indies. 



(PL xliv, fig. 2.) 

 Cheilinus psittaculus Steindachner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, liv, 1860, 370, fig. 1, Samoa. 

 We have 18 examples of this pretty little fish taken at Apia. 



Life colors of a specimen called i'a tusitusi, deep purplish blue with six orange stripes which fade on 

 tail; tail rather abruptly grass-green, paler and yellowish behind; black at upper part of peduncle; 

 head rosy, bluish above; chin with two black dots; breast blue; ventrals deep blue; anal purplish, 

 anteriorly deep blue; dorsal orange anteriorly, becoming brownish behind; pectoral colorless; a black 

 dot behind dorsal. 



1014. Pseudocheilinus evanidus Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



NOVACTJLICHTHYS Bleeker. 



1015. Novaculichthys woodi Jenkins. Hawaii. 



1016. Novaculichthys tseniurus (Lacepede). Molemole. Hawaii; Samoa; Vanicolo; New Guinea; 



East Indies. 



This species varies considerably with age. Our smallest specimens have nine black streaks radi- 

 ating from the eye. As the individual grows older these are reduced to four, two upward and back- 

 ward and two downward and backward. Still later, only those running downward and backward 

 remain. These finally also disappear leaving the head in the adult quite plain. The other markings, 

 the cream-colored band at base of caudal, the black bar across base of pectoral, the black spot on front 

 of spinous dorsal, and the cross streaks on dorsal and anal change but little with age. In the young 

 the first two dorsal spines are much elevated, as in Novaculichthys kaUosomus, which differs mainly 

 in the brighter coloration, with white markings on head and body. 



Very common in the crevices of the reefs about Samoa, as also about Hawaii. AVe have one 

 specimen from Pago Pago and 13 from Apia. 



Life colors of an Apia specimen, olive-slate, with yellow olive shading on the scales; axil black; 

 a golden spot on first pectoral ray at base; dorsal pale olive, with inky blotch on first ravs, the fin 

 obliquely barred with grayish; caudal dusky, a grayish bar across base; pectoral, anal, and ventral 

 olive gray. 



Other specimens from Apia, male and female, the former with banded head, were light brown; 

 seven cross bands of dark brown; dorsal and pectoral shaded with dull orange; soft dorsal, anal, and 

 caudal paler, shaded with yellowish; ventral dusky, dull orange washed, with white spots toward 

 tip; a pure white spot in axil; head pale-orange washed below. 



1017. Novaculichthys macrolepidotus (Bloch). New Guinea; Waigiu; East Indies. 



1018. Novaculichthys kallosomus Bleeker. Hawaii; Samoa; East Indies. 



We have one small specimen of this handsome East Indian fish, taken at Pago Pago. Two others, 

 larger in size, were obtained by Snyder and Berndt at Honolulu. All are bright green in life. 



Life color of a specimen from Pago Pago, brilliant grass-green with pencil-like streaks of black and 

 bands of dark olive, these bands becoming bronze olive on the fins, markings on body of creamy white, 

 those above greenish white; fins greenish gray, except for markings; ventral dark green. 



A colored drawing made in Pago Pago from this specimen is published in Jordan & Evermann's 

 report on the Fishes of Hawaii. 



HEMIPTEHONOTUS Lacepede. 



1019. Hemipteronotus pentadactylus (Linnaeus). New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



1020. Hemipteronotus umbrilatus Jenkins. Hawaii. 



1021. Hemipteronotus copei Fowler. Hawaii. 

 Hemipteronotus copei Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 508, Hawaii. 



1022. Hemipteronotus baldwini Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 

 {Hemipteronotus jenkinsi Snyder, young female.) 



