NOTES ON FI8HE8 OF HAWAII. 217 



F.imih ACANTHI IR1 1X4:. 



27. Hepatus leucopareius (Jenkins). 



Of this rare species several specimens were in the aquarium al Waikiki. It is called mai haiku. 



28. Hepatus matoides (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Renewed comparison of specimens leads us to regard //. guntheri, II. xanthopterus (Cuvier >*c 

 Valenciennes) and H.blochi (Cuvier & Valenciennes) as identical with Hepatus maim,!. The dark 

 stripes on the dorsal and anal, the yellow on the pectoral, and the pale ring at th the caudal 



all fade more or less in spirits. Renewed c parison of Eresh specimens is necessarj to settle this 



point finally. 



A fresh specimen corresponding to II. guntheri lias the body plain In-own, a pale ring about tail, 

 yellow on pectoral and about eye; blue and yellow streaks on preorbital; dorsal and anal Mark with 

 four narrow blue stripes. 



Family BALISTID I . 



29. Xanthichthys lineopunctatus (Holland). 



A specimen from Honolulu, the first ever noticed in the market, collected by Mr. Berndt. Our 

 previous specimens came from the island of Hawaii. 



Family DiODONTIDK. 



30. Diodon nudifrons Jenkins. 



Seen in the aquarium at Waikiki. A black bar from eye downward, meeting it" fellow across the 

 throat. 



Family SCORPjENIDjE. 



31. Merinthe macrocephala (Sauvage I. 



This large scorpsenoid fish is common in the winter markets, reaching a weight of ;; to 5 pounds. 

 It is brilliant orange in life, with sparse dots and mottlings. 



32. Fierasfer homei (Richards). 



While engaged in a study of the holothurians recently collected near I [onolulu by the Albatroti, 

 Mr. W. K. Fisher found a well-preserved specimen of Fiera fer homei in the cloaca! chamber of a 

 specimen of a new holothurian of the genus Stichopus. It was translucent with many scattered pale 

 brownish spots on the head and body; teeth in narrow bands on the jaws, palatines and vomer; 

 central teeth of the latter elongate, and closely apposed, forming a short ridge. Writers generally 

 have overlooked the presence of a minute though well-developed caudal tin, which is evidently con- 

 fluent with the dorsal and anal. The specimen measures 5.75 inches in length. 



Family GOHIIDl-. 



38. Quisquilius eugenius Jordan c!ii Evermann. 



In the Hawaiian Report of Jordan & Evermann, p. 483, and in the later Samoan Report of Jordan 

 & Scale, this species is placed by error in the genus Gobiomorphus ( rill. Quisquilius ani, nius has the 

 ventrals united. They were, in the type, accidentally torn apart. Canine teeth are present. The 

 genus is related to Drombus and to Amblygobius, not to Gobiomorphus or Asterropterix. 



In this connection it may lie noticed that the genus Paragobiodon Bleeker (echinocephalus) was 

 named Rupellia (Ruppellia) by Swainson in 1839, and that the original type of the genus Apocryptes of 

 Osbeek and of Cuvier and Valenciennes, was Gobius pectinirostris of Linna-us. The species called 

 Boleophthalmus chinensis or pectinirostris should therefore stand as Apocryptes pectinirostris. The genus 

 commonly called Apocryptes should probably stand as Gobileptes Swainson. 



