360 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



1230. Siganus fuscescens (Houttuyn). Palau Is.; Howland I. (Gunther); Marcus I. (Bryan & 



Herre) ; Japan. 

 Siganus doliatus Cuvier, Regne Animal. 



Centrogaster fuscescens Houttuyn. Mem de Haerl., xx, 333, Nagasaki. 

 Amphacanthus albopunctatus Schlegel. 



This species, characteristic of southern Japan, is recorded from the South Seas, but was not found 

 by us. 



1231. Siganus argenteus (Quoy & Gaimard). Guam. 



Amphacanthus argenteus Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 368, 1824, Guam. 

 Teuthis argentea Gunther, Fisehe der Siidsee, 90, locality unknown. 



1232. Siganus canaliculars (Park). Vanicolo; New Britain; East Indies. 

 Ch-xtodon canaliculars Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc, in, 1797, 473, Sumatra. 



Amphacanthus margaritiferus Cuvier cfc Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., x, 145, 1S35, Amboina, Vanicolo. 

 Teuthis margaritiferus, Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 835, New Britain. Gunther, Challenger Shore Fishes, 46, 1880, 

 Admiralty Is. 



1233. Siganus vitianus (Sauvage). Fiji. 

 Teuthis vitianus Sauvage, Bull. Phil. Soc., vi, 173; Fiji. 



1234. Siganus oligostictus (Kner). Fiji. 



Teuthis oligostictus Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1868, 30, Fiji. 



1235. Siganus punctatus (Bloch & Schneider). Lo 'ele'ele. Tonga; New Caledonia; Guam; Fiji; 



Samoa; East Indies. 

 Amphacanthus punctatus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 210, Pacific Ocean (Tonga, New Caledonia). 

 Siganas hexagonatus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., vn, 1854, 41, East Indies. Seale, Bishop Museum 1601, 111, in, 



Guam. 

 Teuthis hexagonata, Gunther, Fisehe der Siidsee, 80, Fiji, Samoa. 



This species is abundant at Samoa. We have about 10 specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. 

 This is certainly the species called hexagonatus by Bleeker, and it is without much doubt the punctatus 

 of Bloch and Schneider, as Forster's notes, copied by Schneider, indicate a compressed species with 

 small yellow spots on a bluish ground. Kner (Novara Fisehe) records some similar species as 

 Amphacanthus guttatus Bloch from Java and Ponape, but the Amphacanthus guttatus of Bloch and 

 Schneider is another species of Siganus. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia called elieli, deep dusky blue, the color forming a network 

 around bronze orange spots; vertical fins marked in like fashion, but duller; pectoral olive; ventral 

 blackish gray. Body deeper than in Siganus rostratus. 



1236. Siganus rostratus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Palau; Tahiti; Guam; Samoa; Gilbert Is.; 



Baiatea; Tubuai; Fate and Shortland I. (Seale); Zanzibar. 

 Amphacanthus rostratus (Cuvier & Valenciennes), Hist. Nat. Poiss., x, 158, 1835, Red Sea. 

 Teuthis rostratus Gunther, Fisehe der Siidsee, 89, with plate, Palau, Tahiti, Gilbert Is., Zanzibar. 

 Siganus rostratus, Seale, Bishop Museum 1901, 112, Guam. 



This species is colored ver)' much like Siganus punctatus, but the body is more elongate, the 

 caudal fin still more deeply forked. We have four large specimens from Apia. 



Life colors of one of these, sky-blue, dark above, vermiculated with golden; dorsal mottled olive; 

 caudal dusky, paler behind; anal dusky; ventral gray, barred with dark olive; pectoral golden. 



1237. Siganus corallinus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Palau Is. ; East Indies. 

 Amphacanthus corallinus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., x, 139, 1835, Seychelles, East Indies. 

 Teuthis corallinus, Gunther, Fisehe der Siidsee, 88, Palau. 



1238. Siganus studeri (Peters). New Britain. 

 Teuthis studeri Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 834, New Britain. 



LO Seale, new genus. 

 Lo Seale, new genus of Siganidx (type Amphacanthus vulpinus Schlegel & Midler). 

 This genus is defined by the short tubular snout. Lo is the vernacular name applied to ail the 

 Siganidn- in Samoa. 



