86 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



posteriorly to half the width of the fin. It has a narrow margin of 

 black above this, but it has no colored line at base of dorsal as in 

 J/. I if )i rat us. The name "■ hugupau " is applied also to 2f. Utnratus- 

 (Forst.), with the j'ellow coloring of the bases of the caudal plates 

 intermingling, and with a colored line along the base of the dorsal fin. 

 Another allied species, 2L marginatusCnx. & Val.,is called "tataga." 



Kakaka. Lutiavusfuh-us (Bloch). 



A snapper; pinkish and yellowish, with dark tail and yellow pecto- 

 rals and ventrals; dark spot at base of pectorals; upper part of dorsal 

 black with narrow white margin, and narrow white margin on tail. 

 In Samoa allied species ca,lled "mu-mea" and " tavai-uliuli " are 

 sometimes poisonous. 



Xiaiguan. Mugil uaigietms Q. & G. 



Mullet; called "lisa" by the Spanish. Head flat; scales large; body 

 silvery with slight wash of yellow; darker above; pectorals dusky 

 with lower margins yellowish. A favorite food fish. 



liansi. Apogon fasciatuK Q. li G. 



Small; livid flesh-color, striped longitudinally with black from head 

 to tail. Abundant on ]-eefs, associated with chfetodons and other 

 coral fishes. 



Loro. 



A name applied in Guam to species of Scarus, or parrot-fishes, and 

 to the genus Gomphosus. Scarus eeJchriciis Bloch is a beautiful species 

 of a deep cobalt blue and pink color; scales large. Gomphosus tri- 

 color' Q. & G. ; intense dark green and dark blue; snout elongated; 

 a yellow marking as wide as orbit from lower part of pectoral axis to 

 a little above a lateral line on shovdders; pectorals duskj' with a deep 

 blue band across posterior third; tail yellow, outer margin blue-green. 

 Allied species (" panuhunuhu ") are sometimes eaten raw by the 

 Hawaiians. 



Maclriiig. Periophthalmus Icoelreuleri (Pallas). 



]MangTOve-hopper. A small, brown, flabbj- fish with livid flesh-color 

 markings, its air bladder modified into a breathing organ. It leaves 

 the water and hops about stones and on the mangrove roots and muddy 

 bottom of salt-water mud flats. 



Ilafuti. Ltitianus bonhamensis Giinther. 



Pale greenish snapper with pinkish fins and tail, sometimes a black 

 spot on sides: a favorite food fish; can be caught with a hook. Among 

 other species of Lutianus, are the kakaka (Z. fulvits), the buha 

 (Z. iiionost/i/iiiu); Z. heiic/alensis (with 4 blue-brown edged stripes 

 along the side of the 3'ellowish body); and Z. crythvptt-rus (yellowish 

 white with wash of reddish brown; dorsal tin with a fine black margin). 



