364 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



ABALISTES Jordan & Seale, new generic name. 



Abalistes Jordan & Seale, new generic name in Balistiche (stellaris). 



Leiurus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish.,n, 326, 1839 (L. macrophthalmus); notof Swainson, op. fit., 

 242, which is Gasterosteus. 

 This strongly marked genus is known at once by the depressed tail. The name Leiurus, first used 

 for a stickleback, is not available for it. 



1262. Abalistes stellaris (Bloch & Schneider). Fiji (Giinther), Louisiades (Giinther); Australia; 



East Indies. 



Family MONACANTHID^E. 



CANTHEKINES Swainson. 



1263. Cantherines sandwichensis (Quoy & Gaimard). Aimeo. Hawaii; Samoa; Guam (Seale); 



East Indies; Clarion I. 



Of this species, : common at Hawaii and on the offshore islands of Mexico, we have three speci- 

 mens from Apia and one from Pago Pago. All specimens from Hawaii and Mexico and Samoa are 

 uniformly dark colored, none showing the network of pale lines about dark spots characteristic of the 

 East Indian variety called partialis. Of the Samoan species, one is covered with a network of brown 

 lines arranged honeycomb fashion, while the others are piain. The West Indian species Cantherines 

 pullus is very similar to Cantherines sandwichensis. In any event the last-mentioned name must stand, 

 being prior to all others. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, rich purple-black, unmarked; pectoral, second dorsal, and 

 anal golden; first dorsal and caudal black; lips black. 



Another specimen from Apia was dark gray, reticulate with olive brown; second dorsal and anal 

 light yellow, with a bluish streak along the base; caudal dirty yellow. Spine unserrated; ventral 

 spine immovable. • , 



1264. Cantherines albopunctatus « (Seale) . Hawaii; Tahiti. 



? Monacanthus howensis Ogilby, Rec. Austr. Mus., 1SS9, Lord Howe I. Waite, Austr. Mus., 1901, pi. vm, Lord 



Howe I. 

 Monacanthus albopunctatus Seale, Occ. Papers Bishop Museum, vol. I, no. 4, 13, fig. 6, Honolulu. 

 Pseudomonacanthus multimaculates Regan, Ann. Nat. Hist., 1902, 299, with plate, Tahiti. 

 Cantherines albopunctatus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxin, 1903 (1905), 420, Hawaii. 



This species is very close to Cantherines howensis described by Ogilby and figured by Waite from 

 Lord Howe Island. That species has, however, but 33 dorsal rays, while albopunctatus, with the same 

 form and color, is said to have 38. 



1265. Cantherines punctulatus (Regan). Tahiti. 

 Pseudomonacanthus punctulatus Regan, Ann. Nat. Hist., 1902, 298, with plate, Tahiti. 



1266. Cantherines armatus (Garman). Fiji. 

 AluteraarmntaGa.rma.n, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1903, Fiji. 



This species we have not seen. It is apparently well distinguished by the numerous (over 40) soft 

 rays in the dorsal and anal. Ventral spine immovable; dorsal spine barbed. 



1267. Cantherines nigricans (Macleay). New Guinea. 

 Monacanthus nigricans Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1883, 596. 



1268. Cantherines fulig-inosus (Macleay). New Guinea. 

 Monacanthus fuliginosus Macleay, op. cit., 596. 



AMANSES Gray. 



Amanses Gray, Indian Zoology, 1830 (hystrix). 



Trichoderma Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fisb., n, 1839 (" scapus"). 



In the males of this genus there is a sheaf of long needle-like spines, about ten in number and 

 nearly as long as the head on each side of the tail. In the female a brush of shorter spines takes the 

 place of these. In other regards the genus is close to Cantherines. 



a This species and the next two, having the dorsal spine serrate, belong to the subgenus Pseudomonacanthus. 



