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Another specimen from Apia was brownish black; cheek grayish with blue-black spots, forming 

 streaks below; side with a few blackish streaks and blue spots; middle line of belly darker; dorsal 

 and anal dusky at base; caudal all black, the fins otherwise colorless. 



1315. Canthigaster epilamprus (Jenkins). Hawaii. 



1316. Canthigaster oahuensis (Jenkins). Hawaii. 



. This species is found in the reefs about Honolulu, where it is apparently rare. It is one of the 

 deep-bodied species, like Canthigaster psegma. 



1317. Canthigaster cinctus (Solander). Tahiti; Samoa; New Guinea (Macleay); Hawaii; East 



Indies. 

 Telraodon gronovii Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. n, 1827, no description. 



Tdraodon cinctus Solander, Richardson Voy. Samarang, 19, 20, 1850, Tahiti; on a drawing by Solander. 

 Tropidichthys vaZentini Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., iv, 130, 1853, Amboina. 

 Tropidichthys valentini Bleeker, 3de Bijdr. Amboina, 130, Amboina. 

 Psilonotus valentini Bleeker, Atlas, Gymnodontidai, v, 80, tab. ccviii, fig. 4. 

 Telraodon valentini Gunther, Cat., VIII, 305. 

 Holacanthus balisUcformis Gronow, Cat. Fish, ed. Gray, 1854, 25. 

 Telraodon coronalits Vaillant <k Sauvage, Ann. Mus. 1875, 285, Hawaii. 



This species, distinguished at once by two blackish cross-bars, was seen by us at Hawaii only. The 

 species called coronatus is certainly the cinctus of Solander. 



Telraodon cinctus is described as studded above with small round dots, which are also found on the 

 caudal fin. Besides these there are two oblique black bars which embrace the fore part of the belly, 

 the interval between them light yellow; traces of other dark bars appear behind. 



It is evidently identical with Canthigaster coronatus. Dr. Gilbert's single specimen of the latter 

 from Hawaii agrees perfectly with Gunther's description of Canthigaster valentini. Bleeker's figure, 

 however, differs in showing blue streaks on the head, the posterior far less developed, and the caudal 

 fin unspotted, the black stripes on its lower and upper margins less plain than in coronatus. 



Bleeker's description fits well the specimen obtained in Hawaii by Dr. Gilbert, and there seems no 

 reason for doubting the identity of C. cinctus and C. coronatus with the East Indian form, Canthigaster 

 valentini. The name cinctus has priority. 



1318. Canthigaster compressus (Proce). Fati5 (Seale); East Indies. 

 (Telraodon striolatus Quoy & Gaimard.) 



1319. Canthigaster bennetti (Bleeker). New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



Family DI0D0XTID/E. 



DIODON Linnaeus. 



1320. Diodon hystrix Linnseus. Taula. Samoa; Hawaii; Tahiti; Guam; Johnston I.; New 



Guinea; all warm seas. 

 Occasionally taken in Samoa. We have 2 specimens. 



1321. Diodon holacanthus Linnaeus. Laysan (Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1900, 518, 



as Diodon sexmaculalus) ; warm seas. 

 This species may be the young of the preceding. 



1322. Diodon nudifrons Jenkins. Hawaii. 



CHILOMYCTERTJS Bibron 



1323. Chilomycterus affinis Gunther. Hawaii; Lower California; Galapagos Is.; Japan. 



Family MOLID^. 



EANZANIA Nardo. 



1324. Ranzania makua Jenkins. Hawaii; Japan. 



