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side of snout, and another round spot on anterior part of interorbital; eye with five radiating black 

 lines; fins all with black cross bands except the ventral, which is bluish; axil of pectoral black, with 

 an upper and lower white spot, and some white dots on inner base of rays; a black spot on base of 

 pectoral, and on lower part of opercle; under part of head and top of snoufc white. 



Four specimens from Apia, where it lurks in the crevices of the reefs. The type is no. 51760 

 U. S. National Museum, 4.85 inches long, from Apia. We have also one specimen from Pago Pago, 

 represented in the accompanying colored figure. 



1367. Dendrochirus chloreus Jenkins. Hawaii. 



1368. Dendrochirus barberi (Steindachner). Hawaii. 

 (Dendrochirus hudsoni Jordan & Evcrmttnn.) 



PTEROIS Cuvier. 



1369. Pterois sphex Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



1370. Pterois volitans (Linnanis). Sausaulele. Samoa; Tahiti; Palau ■•.; New Guinea (Macleay); 



New Britain (Peters); East Indies. (PI. li.) 

 This large and violently stinging fish is not rare about Samoa, where half a dozen examples were 

 taken. Life colors of one from Apia called sausaulele, blackish red, fading to pale olive-brown pos- 

 teriorly, the front of head abruptly bright pale brownish red; body covered by narrow sharply 

 defined white streaks, bounding black streaks of the ground color, one pair below eye, one pair across 

 nape; 5 more streaks on body, the first three Y-shaped, divided above and one of them below also; 

 breast and belly with alternating white and blackish cross-bars; cirrus black, light red at tip; dorsal 

 light and dark red; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal with dark cross-bars; ventral deep red, streaked with 

 white, the spine white; pectoral dusky red, with two white crescents at base and a white axillary 

 spot, the rays bright pink-red; two horizontal dark-edged streaks on caudal peduncle; interorbital 

 pale pink. 



1371. Pterois radiata Solander. Tahiti; Paumotuls.; Samoa; Kingsmill I. 



One specimen, called sausaulele, was taken by us at Samoa. Life colors, black with whitish streaks, 

 these brownish red on head; long dorsal rays reddish brown at tip. 



1372. Pterois vittata Sauvage. Marquesas Is. 



Pierois vittata Sauvage, Nouv. Arch. Museum, 187S, 135, Nukahiva. 



PEL0E0PSIS Gilbert. 



1373. Peloropsis xenops Gilbert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



INIMICTJS Jordan & Starks. 



1374. Inimicus maculatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Waigiu; New Britain; New Guinea. 

 Jnimicus maculatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 434, 1829, Waigiu. Lesson, Voy. Coquille, 210, 



plate 20. Giinther, Cat., n, 150, Waigiu. 

 Pelor maculatum, Peters, Berl. Mon. 187G, 834, New Britain. 



SYNANCEJA Bloch & Schneider. (Synancidium Miiller; Synaneeichthys Bleeker. ) 



According to Bleeker, the genus Spurco, or Synaneeichthys, to which our species belongs, differing 

 from Synanceja in the absence of palatine teeth, can not be maintained as a distinct genus, these teeth 

 being frequently wanting in Synanceja horrida. 



1375. Synanceja verrucosa Bloch & Schneider. N'qfu. Samoa; Fiji; Tahiti; New Hanover; 



Strong!.; Borabora; Guam; New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 

 Synajiccia tltcrsitcs Seale, Bishop Museum, vol. I, no. 3, 1901, 121, Guam. 

 This most uncomely fish abounds in the tide pools of the coral reefs of Samoa. It is much 

 dreaded by the natives on account of its poisonous dorsal spines. 



• A specimen from Apia called nofu in life was the color of coral sand, the surface mud-colored, with 

 concealed orange patches showing on head and body; caudal with a blackish cross-band; a whitish 

 cross-band at base and one at tip. 



