362 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



1241. Balistes castaneus Richardson. Pacific; west coast of Mexico. 



Balistes castanctis Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, 126, pi. 59, figs. 5,6, Pacific, locality unkown. Regan, Ann. Nat. Hist. 



1902, 297, Pacific, same specimen. 

 Batistes potylepis Steindachner, Ich. Beitr., v,' 21, 1876, Magdalena Bay, Mazatlan, Acapulco. Jordan & 



Evermann, Fishes North & Mid. Amer., n, 1700, 1898, Lower California, Panama. 



According to Regan's account this is a true Balistes, and agrees very closely with Balistes potylepis 

 Steindachner, a species common from Cerros Island to Panama. We have also a specimen from San 

 Diego. Richardson's specimens probably came from the Panama region, and it is likely that the 

 species does not belong to the Polynesian fauna at all. 



1242. Balistes capistratus Shaw. Hawaii; Nukahiva (Seale); East Indies. 



1243. Balistes niger Bonnaterre. New Guinea; East Indies. 



(Batistes conspiciUum Bloch <fe Schneider. ) 



1244. Balistes bursa Bloch & Schneider. Hawaii; Nukahiva (Seale); East Indies. 



1245. Balistes viridescens Bloch & Schneider. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



1246. Balistes nycteris Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. . 



1247. Balistes chrysopterus Bloch & Schneider. Sumu pa' epa' e. Samoa; Aneiteum; Micronesia; 



New Britain; Fate (Seale). 



Balistes niger Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc, in, 37, 1791, Sumatra; not of Bonnaterre, 1788, which is Balistes 

 niger— Balistes conspiciUum. Gunther, Cat., vm, 218, Red Sea, Mauritius, Ceylon, Sumatra, Amboina, Aneiteum, 

 Micronesia, Zanzibar. Day, Fish Ind., 688, pi. 181, fig. 1, Malaysia. Peters, Berl. Mon. 1S76, 852; New Britain. 



Balistes armi Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 336, 382, 1798. 



Batistes chrysopterus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 466, 1801, Coromandel. 



Balistes mungopark Lacepede, Hist. Nat., Poiss., IV, 682, 1803; after Park. 



Balistes subarmatus Gray & Hardwicke, 111. Ind. Zool., India. 



Balistes atbicaudatus Riippell, Neue Wirbelthiere, 54, xvr, fig. 1, 1835, Red Sea. 



Balistes verrucosus Gronow, Syst., ed. Gray, 33, 1854; not of Bonnaterre. 



Balistes armatus, Bleeker, Atlas, v, 115, tab. ccxvi, East Indies; name after Lacepede. 



Of this East Indian species we obtained two specimens at Samoa, where it is apparently, rare. 

 Life colors of a specimen from Apia called pae pae, olive-gray, without color, whitish about jaws; a 

 whitish band across lower jaw, another across chin, the latter extending backward across lower part 

 of cheek; caudal gray with a blackish cross-streak and a white crescent at edge. 



1248. Balistes fuscolineatus Seale. Hawaii. 



1249. Balistes fuscus Bloch & Schneider. Fiji (Gunther) ; Tahiti (Seale); New Guinea (Macleay); 



East Indies. 



1250. Balistes flavomarginatus Riippell. Sumu laolao. Samoa; New Britain (Peters); New 



Guinea (Macleay); Shortland I. (Seale); East Indies; Japan. 



A single large specimen of this East Indian species was taken at Apia. It agrees closely with 

 Bleeker's figure. According to Dr. Peters, this is the Balistes brasUiensis of Bloch and Schneider. The 

 description of Schneider agrees fairly, but it is confused with some of the American species and pur- 

 ports to be drawn from an American specimen. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia called sumu laolao, light olive-green, the head abruptly creamy 



reddish brown, sides with many blackish spots covering or partly covering individual scales; back 



more brownish; first dorsal brownish with dusky membrane; second dorsal dusky brownish at base 



with orange-brown edge; anal same; caudal orange-brown, deeper on edges and margin with a dusky 



crescent; pectoral pale orange; naked "grooves" on cheek raised, reddish brown, the scaly stripes 



darker. 



BALISTAPUS Tilesius. 



1251. Balistapus aculeatus (Linnaeus). Sumu u/iuli. Hawaii; Samoa; Johnston I.; Fiji; Guam; 



New Guinea; Marcus I.; New Ireland; East Indies. 



Monacanthus chiverti Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 1876, 355, New Guinea. 



Balistes aculeatus Steindachner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1900, 517, Samoa, Laysan. Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 852, New 



Ireland. Swain & Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 139, Johnston I. Seale, Bishop Museum 1901, 115, Guam. 



Bryan & Herre, Bishop Museum 1903, 135, Marcus I. 



