THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 367 



1280. Osbeckia liturosa (Shaw). Tahiti. 

 Batistes lilurosus Shaw, Gen. Zool., V, 405, 1803, Tahiti. 

 Monacanthas lilurosus, Giinther, Cat., vnr, 253; copied. 



This species was probably founded on a large example of Osbeckia scripta. 



ALUTERA (Cuvier) Oken. 



1281. Alutera rnonoceros (Linnseus). Hawaii; New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



Family 0STRACIID£. 



OSTRACION Linnaeus. 



1282. Ostracion tuberculatum Linnseus. Moamoa uli. Samoa; Fiji; Guam; New Guinea; Mar- 



cus I.; New Britain (Peters: Berl. Mon. 1876, 852); East Indies. 



This species, known by the round blue-black spots, is moderately common about Samoa. We have 

 six specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. One of these was yellow in life, the others olive. This 

 species seems well separated from its Japanese cognate, Ostracion imma'culatum. The species, called 

 Ostracion trigonum and Ostracion cubicum, is identical with Ostracion tuberculatum. 



Life colors of'a specimen from Apia called moamoa, dark olive brown with bluish spots, which 

 are white in spirits; fins dull gulden, blackish at base; caudal with a few rounded black spots at base. 



All the specimens from Pago Pago had blue-black spots; one with the caudal deep orange yellow, 

 the other fins paler yellow; another with the caudal dusky shaded with light yellow, the other fins 

 bright yellow. 



1283. Ostracion nasus Pinch. Guam; East Indies. 



1284. Ostracion ornatum Hollard. Marquesas Is. 



Ostracion ornatus Hollard, Ann. Sci. Nat., vn, 1S57, 166, Marquesas Is. 

 This well-marked species, distinguished by the two pale lateral stripes, is unknown to us. 



1285. Ostracion lentig-inosum Bloch & Schneider. Moamoa uliiili. Hawaii; Samoa; Guam; 



Johnston I.; East Indies. 



This species, common in the East Indies and South Seas, occurs both in Hawaii and Samoa. We 

 have eight examples from Apia and Pago Pago. The color is plain dark olive, with small whitish 

 spots above, below, and on sides. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, blackish brown, spotted everywhere with grayish white, 

 marbled on orange shades; caudal and belly also spotted; other fins olive; dorsal blackish at base. 



1286. Ostracion sebse Bleeker. Moamoa samasama. Hawaii; Samoa; New Guinea (Macleay); 



East Indies. 

 Ostracion sehie Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., xxiv, 32, taf. 6, fig. 13, East Indies. 

 Ostracion bombifrons Hollard, Ann. Sci. Nat., 1857, vn, 168. 

 Ostracion camurum Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xix, 1899 (1901), 396, fig. 9, Honolulu. 



Four specimens of this handsome species were taken on the reef at Apia. The color, well shown 

 in Bleeker's figure, is characteristic, especially the undulating yellow stripe, most distinct on the tail. 



The species is not rare on rocky shores about Hawaii, whence it was described as Ostracion camu- 

 rum. The yellow undulating stripe is sometimes faint in Hawaiian examples, but these often agree 

 fully with the Samoan. 



1287. Ostracion oahuensis Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



This species is known from two examples from Honolulu. It is near Ostracion sebx, but the spots 

 are smaller, with none on the sides of the body. 



LACTORIA Jordan & Fowler. 



Lactoria Jordan & Fowler, Proc. IT. S. Nat, Mus., xxv, 278, 1903 (cornutus). 



1288. Lactoria galeodon Jenkins. Hawaii. 



Ostracion diaphanus Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, i.xx, 517. 1900, Laysan, Hawaii: not of Laeepede. 

 This species is rather rare about Hawaii, all the examples seen being small. It is nearly related 

 to Lactoria diaphana of Japan. 



