bot 
Color in alcohol umber brown, mostly uniform, VYertical fins dusky 
to blackish, soft dorsal and anal with pale margins, and latter 
with dusky submarginal streak. Series of 129 examples, mostly 
young, from Tahiti. JAPO bras rd ~ warn. ths fren sara Oy. 
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Vy, S% pugnax Ogilvie-Grant . is a synonym, Its color pattern 
is similar to that of our largest example, though it has an abnormal 
spinous dorsal, the membrane of the sixth spine being entirely sep- 
arated, 
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S. tanae Jordan and Seale is another synonym, representing 
the young. Our large series covers such minor points as it exhibits. 
The coloration is precisely the same as that of our young examples. 
++ should originally have been compared with S. taeniurus, as no 
reference to its relationship is made, Kendall and Goldsborough 
report S. taeniurus from Taniti~?*, and their account full agrees 
with our material. 
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280 
Proce .Z001,50¢€,,London,1884, p. 160, Pl. 11, Savaii, 
281 
Bull, Bur,Fisher.,vol.25, 1905,(1906), p. 410, fig. 96, 
Vaisigano River, Apia, 
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Mem.Mus,Comp,Zool,.,vol.26,1911, p. 323, 
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