340 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



1136. Chsetodon pelewensis Kner. Tifitifi i'u sama (orange-tailed). Palau Is.; Samoa; Tonga; 



Tahiti; Paumotu Is.; New Hebrides; Fate (Seale). 



Chsetodon pelewensis Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1868, 306, Palau Is. Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 43, taf. 31, fig. B, 

 Tonga, Palau, Samoa, Tahiti, Paumotu, New Hebrides. 



Of this handsome little Cliietodon we secured 6 specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. From most 

 other species, Chietodon pelewensis is known by the yellow median stripe on the black ocular band. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, yellow-olive, clear yellow behind, gray on sides; forehead 

 black; ocular band yellow, edged on each side by black and gray; preorbital yellow; yellow on 

 preopercle; dots and wavy bands purplish black; dorsal brown- alive, clearer behind, a broad golden 

 edge set off by a black line; caudal peduncle clear bright orange, as in Holacanthus (ftavissimus), then 

 light yellow, then black, the fin mostly translucent; anal creamy brown, with a black streak above 

 and below, the edge soiled greenish gray; ventral dusky; pectoral colorless; a black blotch on nape 

 before dorsal. 



1137. Chsetodon ulietensis Cuvier & Valenciennes. Samoa; Paumotu; Tahiti; Guam; Kings- 



mill I.; Raiatea (Seale). 

 Chsetodon ulietensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 39, 1831, Ulietea. 

 Chsetodon falcula Giinther, Fisehe der Siidsee, 39, taf. 27; Paumotu, Tahiti, Harvey, Samoa, Kingsmlll I.; not of 



Cuvier. Seale, Bishop Museum 1901, 101, Guam. 



Of this fish we have 8 specimens from Apia and i from Pago Pago. It is well distinguished 

 from the closely related Chxtodon falcula of the East Indies, with which Bleeker and Giinther have 

 confounded it. 



Colors in life, light gray or clear whitish, slightly brownish in front, bluish mesially, with two 

 broad cross-bands of deep drab, the posterior deepening to black above, both fading below but evident 

 below the level of the pectoral fin; above they extend on the dorsal fin, the anterior bar narrowed and 

 sharply turned backward at base of spinous dorsal ; the two cross-bands and the pale interspace marked 

 by 15 or 16 narrow, sharp, nearly vertical lines of drab-black, like pencil marks, these corresponding 

 to the rows of scales; area behind second lateral band clear golden-yellow on body and fins; ocular 

 stripe broad, deep black, without edge; snout dusky above; an oblong vertical jet-black spot crossing 

 narrowest part of caudal peduncle; spinous dorsal clear light yellow along edge; soft dorsal and anal 

 golden yellow like the body; dorsal with two narrow brown streaks not parallel, then light yellow, 

 brown, and finally a blackish edge; anal spines bright light yellow, the fins with three dark parallel 

 streaks, two brown, one black, then a golden edge; caudal golden yellow, with a black curved cross- 

 streak and a broad transparent edge; pectoral colorless; ventral soiled white; forehead with faint 

 brownish yellow cross-streak. Another specimen with bands black rather than violet. 



1138. Chsetodon lineolatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Hawaii; Samoa; New Hanover; New Guinea; 



Fat6 (Seale); East Indies. 

 Chxtodon lineolatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 40, 1831, He de France. Quoy & Gaimard, Voyage 



de 1' Astrolabe, 381, 1835, He de France. Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Kingsmill I. 



Steindachner, Sitz. Ak, Wiss. Wien 1900, 469; Honolulu. 

 Tetragonoplrus lineolatus, Bleeker, Atlas, ChEet., 51, tab. XV, Cocos, Sumbawa, Flores, Ternate, Amboina, Banda. 

 Chsetodon lunatus (Ehrenberg) Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 57, 1831, Bed Sea. 

 Chsetodon oxycephalic Bleeker, Ternate, 9de Beidr., 603, Ternate. Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 232, New Hanover. 

 Chxtodon tallii Bleeker, Banda, 3de Beidr., 97, Banda. 

 This large and handsome species is common at Honolulu and westward to the East Indies. It is 

 recorded from Samoa, but we did not find it there. 



1139. Chsetodon lunula (Laetipede). Tifitifi lawmea. Hawaii; Samoa; Papua; Oualan; Tahiti; 



Rarotonga; Nukahiva; Makatea and Tahiti (Seale). 



Pomaccntms lunula Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 507, 1S03, He de France. 



Chxtodon lunula, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 59, pi. 173, 1831, He de France, Prince of Wales I., New 



Guinea, Australia. Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 42, Hawaii, Tahiti. 

 Chxtodon biocellatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 62, Oualan; young. 

 Tetrarjonoptrus fasciatus, Bleeker, Atlas, Chset., 44', tab. xn; not Chxtodon fasciatus ForskiU: Java, Bawean, Borneo, 



Celebes, Sangi, Timor, Halmahera, Buro, Amboina, Ceram, New Guinea. 



This splendid species is rather common about Samoa, as at Honolulu. It has been confounded 

 by Bleeker and others with Chxtodon fasciatus Forskal of the Red Sea. The varied markings of the 



