FISHES. 85 



Hagdnfa. Oxymonacanthus longirostris Bleeker. 



A small file-fish; mouth like a turned -up beak; skin blue with orange 

 spots. Collected June 14, 1900. 



Haltio. Carcharias melanoplerm Q. & G. 

 A shark 'with dark-colored fins. 



Hamoktan. Zebrasoma guttatus Forster. 



A spotted lancet-fish. Body elevated, compressed, short; brownish 

 speckled with round white dots; 2 bluish- white cross bands on the 

 body and 1 on the shoulders, extending down on opercles; tail armed 

 with spines; tail and ventral fins yellow; mouth like the snout of a 

 sheep. This species occurs also in Hawaii. 



Hankut. Hemiramphiis limbatus Cuv. & Val. Half-beak. 



Upper jaw short; lower jaw prolonged into a beak. In Samoa 

 allied species are called "ise;" in Hawaii "ihe-ihe." 



Hasule. Anguilla sp. 



An eel living in fresh-water streams. Edible. 



Higum. Harpe axillaris (Bennett). 



A small-mouthed fish, belonging to the Labridae, the family which 

 also includes the tatalun, gadu, and tatanung. The anterior half of 

 the body is dark-colored, the posterior half of a livid salmon-color; 

 caudal fin yellow; spinous dorsal fin brown; posterior half of soft 

 dorsal and anal fins light yellowish; a deep black spot on the first 3 

 dorsal spines; a black spot on base and in axil of pectoral fins. 



Hiting. Siganas hexagonaia Gunther. 



Like a large sesyan (a little more than a foot long); dark purplish 

 with yellowish hexagonal spots. Other species of Siganas are Siga- 

 nas 'iiiarmorata Q. & G., Siganas rostrata Cuv. & Val., which is 

 bluish with indistinct markings of yellow spots and lines, and the 

 "maiiahag," a fish which appears at intervals in great numbers and is 

 preserved b}- the natives by drying. This name is probably applied 

 to the young of the hiting or the sesyan, or perhaps of both. 



Hiyug or Hidyug. Teuthis Imeatus Bloch. 



A beautiful surgeon-fish; body elevated, compressed; movable white 

 spine on caudal peduncle; longitudinal stripes of yellow-black-blue- 

 black-yellow extending' back to root of caudal fin; blue line down 

 middle of forehead, dividing and forming ring about mouth; other 

 blue lines on each side of this. In Samoa this species is called 

 '"alongo." 



Hugupau. Monoceros garretti Seale. 



A black surgeon-fish, with two bony plates or keels on caudal 

 peduncle, having a yellow base; caudal fin black with subterminal 

 band of yellow and a marginal band of white; dorsal fin black with a 

 submarginal line of white, which begins very narrow and widens 



