THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 335 



Family ANTIGO.\'IID.£. 



ANTIGONIA Lowe. 



1120. Antigonia steindachneri Jordan & E-ernmnn. Hawaii; Japan. 



1121. Antigonia eos Gilbert. Hawaii. 



Family EPHIPPID^E. 

 EPHIPPT/S Cuvier. 



Ephippus Cuvier, Regne Annual, ed. 1, 335, 1817 (argus). 

 Scalophagus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 136 (argus). 



Qacodoxus Cantor, Malay. Fish., 163, 1850 (argus: substitute for Scatophagus on account of the 

 earlier genus Scatophaga). 



1122. Ephippus argus (Gmelin). New Guinea (Macleay); New Britain (Peters, Berl. Mon., 



1876, 833). 



1123. Ephippus multifasciatus (Richardson). New Guinea; East Indies. 

 Scatophagus multifasciatus Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 1883, 277, New Guinea. 



DREPANE Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Drepane Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 129, 1831 (punctata) . 



Harpochirus Cantor, Malay. Fish., 162, 1850 (punctata); substitute for Drepane, there being 



genera of prior date, Drepana, Drepanis, Drepanus, and Drepania. 

 Cryptosmilia Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1867, 401 (lima). 



1124. Drepane punctata (Gmelin). Samoa (Giinther); New Ireland (Peters); East Indies. 



PLATAX Cuvier. 



1125. Platax orbicularis (Forskal). Pe'ape'auli. Samoa; Tahiti; Papua; Fiji; New Ireland; 



Shortland I. (Seale); East Indies. 



Chxtodon orbicularis Forskal, Descr. Anim., 59, 1775, Red Sea. 



Platax orbicularis, Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 140, Tahiti. Klunzinger, Fische Eothen Meeres, 118, Red Sea; 



with good diagnosis of the two species. 

 Chxtodon respertUio Bloch, Ichth., 67, taf. 199, fig. 2, 1787, East Indies. 

 Plalax vesperlilio, Bleeker, Atlas, Chast., 74, tab. xvn, fig. 1, tab. xvrn, figs. 2 and 3, Sumatra, New Guinea, and all 



other East Indian islands. Peters, Berl. Mon., 1876, S36, New Ireland. 

 Clixtodon pentacanthus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 454,471, tab. 11, fig. 2, 1803, Pacific Ocean. 

 Platax albipunctatus Riippell, Atlas, 69, taf. 18, fig. 4, 1828, Red Sea. 

 Platax ehreribergi Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 221, 1831, Red Sea. 

 Platax rjutlulatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 227, pi. 186, fig. 1,1831, lie de France. 



This fish, widely distributed throughout the East Indies, is rather common about Samoa. We 

 have three specimens taken in the seine at Pago Pago and two from Apia. 



The species is distinguished from the next by the fact that the middle cusp of each tooth is longer 

 than the others. The scales are considerably larger than in Platax teira, and the anterior profile is a 

 little less vertical. The color is similar in the two species, the cross-bands disappearing with age. 



A specimen from Apia was olive-gray, with blackish on the fins; no bright colors. A young 

 example from Pago Pago was blackish in life, with a diffused blackish ocular band; breast soiled 

 yellowish; base of pectoral with a large black spot; caudal abruptly whitish; ventral black; dorsal v, 37; 

 scales 63. 



1126. Platax teira (Forskal). Palau Is; New Guinea; East Indies. 



Cliictodon teira Forskal, Descr. Anim., 60, 1775, Red Sea. 



Platax teira, Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 141, 1S76, Palau Is. Bleeker, Atlas, Chset., 73, tab. xvn, fig. 2, tab. XX, fig. 1; 



Sumatra, New Guinea, Borneo, and all the Fast Indian islands. Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meeres, 119. Red Sea. 



Jordan & Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxv, 1903, 526, Formosa, Riukiu Is., Tokyo, Kagoshima, Bonin Is., 



Ivezen. 

 Chsetodon artliriticus Bell, Philoa. Trans. 793, 8, pi. 6, Sumatra. 



