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an intramarginal band, dark green. Two similar bands mark the outer half of 

 the anal fin, and spots of the same color may be observed on the caudal. The 

 ventrals are pale, straw-yellow, with blue, anterior margins. Pectorals have a 

 pale, yellow tinge at their base. 



The greatest depth of the body, as compared to the entire length of the fish, 

 is about one to four. The scales are rather large. The head constitutes a little 

 less than a fourth of the total length. In addition to the usual teeth which 

 characterize the genus, we observe a spiniform tooth projecting obliquely for- 

 ward from the posterior portion of the branches of the upper jaw. The caudal 

 fin is posteriorly rounded off, and the ventrals are long and pointed. 



Length, 4)^ inches. 



Habitat, Sandwich Islands. 



Remarks. — We have observed only a single example of this very rare and 

 beautiful fish, which was captured at the island of Hawaii in 1856. Its pecu- 

 liar markings will readily distinguish it from any of the numerous species in- 

 habiting our coasts. In shape and markings of the head it resembles Julis 

 pcecila, figured in the Zoology of the Voyage of the " Blossom," but the colors 

 of the body and fins are widely different. 



Chironectes Cuv. 



Chironectes ruhro-fuscus Garrett. 



D. 3-13 ; A. 9 ; V. 6 ; P. 11 ; C. 9. 



A single example of this species now before me has been preserved in spirits 

 several years. It is in fine condition, though the colors are much faded. The 

 general shape is oblong-oval, and much compressed. The thickness at the base 

 of the head enters about five and a half times in the total length. The whole 

 surface is covered with crowded minute hispid asperities, and very small, remote, 

 cutaneous, tuft-like appendages. The head, as viewed in profile, is irregularly 

 rounded, the chin forming the anterior end, being slightly in advance of the 

 mouth. The eyes are exceedingly small, elliptically oval in shape, their greatest 

 diameter being only three-twentieths of an inch. Their distance from the mar- 

 gin of the upper jaw is five times their own length. The mouth is vertical. On 

 the top of the snout, midway between the eyes and the end of the upper jaw, is 

 a long setaceous appendage, articulated to a tubercle, and tufted at the end. 

 On the cranium there are two stout, curved processes, which project posteriorly, 

 the hind one the largest, and both enveloped in the integuments. The dorsal 

 fin takes its origin at a point corresponding to the middle of the total length of 

 the fish, caudal exclusive. Its height equals the length of its own base. The 

 caudal trunk and fin are slightly oblique to the horizontal axis of the body. 

 The anal fin is small and rounded off along its outer margin. The rays in all 

 the fins have their ends slightly prolonged in little fleshy points. The color, as 

 noted from the living fish, is dark red, with irregular, cloud-like markings and 

 spots, dusky gray. Everywhere maculated with small, irregular, dusky spots, 

 which are the most numerous on the belly. A few deep black maculations on 

 the vertical fins and scattering ones on the body. The interior of the mouth 



