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Family BKAM1D.-E. 



1 2. Collybus drachme Snyder. 



\ line cast of this species is in the Bishop Museum. 



Family SERKANID£. 



13. Caprodon schlegeli Gunther. (PI. xn, fig. 1.) 



A single example from Honolulu, measuring 17.25 inches. On comparinu' this with a specimen 

 about 10 inches long from Misaki, Japan, we find no differences except that the Honolulu example has 

 a broader maxillary and stronger teeth, characters probably due to age. 



Head 3.5 in length to base of caudal; depth 2.8; depth of caudal peduncle 2.9 in head; eye 4.1; 

 interorbital space 3.2; snout 3.4; maxillary 1.9; dorsal x, - 1 : anal in, 8; scales 7-70- 22. 



Dorsal outline evenly curved and considerably elevated; interorbital space convex, extending to 

 a point below posterior edge of pupil; width of maxillary contained -1.7 times in head, its free edge 

 rounded; cleft of mouth oblique; lower jaw very strong, projecting beyond the Upper, so that the 

 anterior teeth are exposed; premaxillaries freely protractile; upper jaw with bands of minute, strong 

 teeth, a group of large canines in front and a single row of smaller ones extending posteriorly; toothed 

 area narrow along sides of jaw, but abruptly broadening into huge pads on either side anteriorly; 

 teeth of lower jaw in a narrow band posterior to edges of valve, in _ large elevated pads on each side 

 anteriorly; a naked Bpace between upper pads of teeth, the lower ones more closely apposed; broad 

 patches of fine teeth on tongue, vomer, and palatines; edge of preopercle feebly denticulate, almost 

 smooth; opercle with i broad, flat spines; gillrakers 23 6, the longest contained 2 times in longi- 

 tudinal diameter of ,-ye, their tips blunt ; lateral line continuous, evenly curved from upper edge of gill 

 opening to a point below posterior dorsal ray, where it rather abruptly turns backward, much as usual 

 in seisenoid I is Ins, extending along caudal peduncle a little above the middle; lead and body, except 

 lips, throat, and edges of maxillary, completely covered w ith cl moid seal,-; manj scales on head and 

 upper parts of body, with a minute scale at base: small seales on bases of fins and extending far out 

 on the membrane.-, those at base of spinous dorsal forming a distinct sheath; dorsal spines strong, 

 the fourth to seventh longest, 2.8 in head: posterior rays longest, 2.1 in head: second and third anal 

 spines very heavy, their length 3.6 in head, the longest ray 2.2 in head; caudal truncate or slightly 

 concave, its length 1.5 in head; pectoral unsymmetrical, the upper rays shortened and the eighth to 



thirteenth rays markedly elongate, slightU longer than head, their tips broad and flat, the free edge 

 of upper half of fin concave; ventral rounded, the length 1.6 in head. 



Color, in formalin: Yellowish \\ ith a slight tinge of olive; scattered seales on upper parts orange 

 or pinkish, in places clustered so as to form clouds of either tint; a well-defined pink bar 

 extending from eye to tip of snout; a similar bar passing over interorbital area; rays of caudal 

 pink; membrane yellow ; dorsal and anal yellow, tie- scaled portion of former clouded with pink 

 and yellow, of the latter wit h pink; ventral spine pink; rays yellow; pectoral light 



When fresh this specimen was tine crimson mixed with yellow ; a crimson stripe before eye, 

 one between eyes; preorbital crimson; space before dorsal golden; caudal, anal, ventrals, and 

 pectorals bright yellow, with some crimson mixed in on the base of caudal, of anal, and on sides; 

 lower jaw crimson; crimson mottling on sides of back conspicuous. 



The genus Caprodon is distinguished from Odontanlhiag and other Anthiinx with teeth on the 

 tongue by the unsymmetrical pectoral, the truncate caudal, the presence of a scaly dorsal sheath, 

 and by the many-rayed soft dorsal. The dorsal spines are none of them elevated, and the dentition 

 offers some peculiarities. 



Family LUTIAMDvE. 



Genus R00SEVELTIA Jordan & Evermann." 



Rooseveltia Jordan & Evermann, in Jordan ,\. Scale. Fishes of Samoa, Bull. Bureau Fisheries, vol. xxv, p. 265, 1907; No 

 description (type, SI minus brighami Scale). 



This genus related to Apsilus and Lutianm, from which it differs in having the top of the head 

 without the elevated crests characteristic of those genera. The top of the cranium is narrow and 



a Name occurs in Jordan A: Scale, Fishes of Samoa, but no description hitherto published. 



