94 



Murcona pfeifferi, Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. lud., v, 1853, 173; Verb. Bat. Gen., ssv, 



1H53, Murcen., 72. 

 Sidera pfeifferi, Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish., 1856, 71. 

 JSidcra pantherina, Kaup, op. cit., 1856, 71. 

 Gymnothorax jjantherinus, Bleekek, Ned. Tydscbr. Dierk., i, 1863, 152. 



Locality: Palmyra Island. The collection contains many specimen Sj 

 illustrating all the variations of color-markings of this variable species. 

 All the teeth, except the anterior mandibulary, are uniserial in their 

 arrangement. One specimen, six inches long, presents all the details of 

 coloration of Murwna polyophthalma, but diflers from it in its dentition. 



GALEORHINIDJ]. 



CARCHARIAS MELANOPTERUS, Q. & G. [No. 19248]. 



Ca7-cha7-ias melanopterus, QuoY & Gaimakd, Voy. TJran. ZooL, 1824, 194, pi. 43, f. 1-2. — 

 EiJPPELL, N. W. Fische, 1837, 63.— Gunther, Cat. Fish., viii, 1870, 3G9. 



Carcharias (Prionodon) melanopterus, MtJLLER & Henle, 43, pi. 19, f. 5. — Bleekeii, 

 Verb. Bat. Gen., ssiv, 1852, Flag., 33.— Dumeril, Elasmobr., 365. 



Carcharias (Prionace) melanopterus, Cantor, Mai. Fish., 400. 



Carcharias (Prionodon) lienlei, Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., iv, 1853, 507. 



Ca-'charias {Prionodon) hrachyrhynchus, Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. ludo-Neerl., vi, 1859, 

 203. — Dumeril, Elasmobr., 364. 



Localities: Christmas and Washington Islands. Young and foetus. 

 Gray, with all the fins of the body tipped with black. 



IV. — Fishes from the Samoan Islands^ collected ly A. B. Stein- 



hergcr. 



OSTEACIONTID^. 



OSTRACION PUNCTATUS, Bl. Schn. [No. 15130]. 



Osiracion pointille, LACiiPiiDE, Hist, des Poiss., i, 1798, 442, 445, pi. 21, f. 1. 



Ostracion punctatus, Bloch, Syst. Ichth., ed. Scitn., 1801, 501. — Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, 

 Fish., 1842, 158.— Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., xi, 1856, 108 ; Atl. Ichth., v, 

 1865, 39, pi. 202, Ostrac, pi. 2, f. 4.— Hollard, Ann. Sc. Nat., vii, 1857, 167.— 

 GuNTiiER, Cat. Fish., viii, 1870, 261. — Playfair & Gunther, Fish. Zanz., 

 1866, 130. 



Ostracion lentiginosus, Bloch, Syst. Ichth., ed. SciiN., 1801, 501. 



Osiracion meleagris, Shaw, Gen. Zool., v, 1804, 428, pi. 172; Nat. Misc., 7, pi. 253. 



The entire body covered with small white spots, which are confluent 

 into undulating lines on the under surface of the body, and under the 

 eyes. 



