tube of lateral line with 1 or 2 short branchlets. Large 
example with deeply lunate caudal; smaller with hind edge 
Slightly lunate, corners pointed, Color in alcohol dull 
brownish generally, Smell example with many obscure small 
pale spots scattered about back and hind sides, Both show 
narrow pale line from mouth corner to eye. Fins pale browh, 
dorsals and anals each with dark marginal band. In lerger 
example upper and lower caudal edges broadly darker than 
rest of fin, Ventral pale, outer edges rather broadly dark- 
er, length 147 mm, One from Fiji, and another from Samoa, 
A Samoan example in the Academy is wrongly recorded by 
Zo 
Fowler as Scarus viridis , It agrees in most all respects, 
and hes 2 upper and a single lower canine behind on each Side, 
Cc 
2 
We have also examined another Samoan specimen in the Acedemy, 
which varies in the presence of but 2 hind canines, one on 
each side above, 
fe BOD 
Gunther identifies Pseudoscarus capistratoides Bleeker 
With Scsarus forsteri Valenciennes, 
Rr, 
Cc 
In this connection we examined 2 large Samoan examples of 
Blobiceps in the Academy and find them correctly recorded by 
ZO9 ‘a Po 240 
Fowler - the type of Scarus frenus Fowler » upon Comparison, 
proves to be a synonym of C, globiceps. 
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Proc .Acad,Nat.Sci.,Phila.,1900,p.527. 
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Journ,.Mus.Godeffroy,vol.16,heft 8,1909,p.318, 
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250 3.4.2 
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240 L.c,,18 99,p.490,p1,18,fig.3, Thornton Island, 
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