HOLOCENTRIDAE. 



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Myripristis multiradiatus GtJNTHER. 

 Fische der Sudsee, 1874, 3, p. 93. Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1905, 23, pt. 1, p. 49. 



A specimen, No. 3308, 5 inches long from Rikitea, Manga Reva agrees with 

 one collected by Jordan and Evermann at Honolulu, and also with their de- 

 scription of the species (Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish. 23). The measurements of our 

 specimen are as follows : — 



Head 3.05 in length without caudal; depth 2.29 in length without caudal, 

 eye 2.20 in head; interorbital 4.12 in head; dorsal X-1, IG2; anal IV, 155 or 16 

 scales 35^0+3-65; opercular margin black; axil black. The following 

 color note was found attached to the specimen: "General shade vermilion 

 edges of soft dorsal, caudal, ventral and anal white; brown-red bar from axil 

 up across opercle, [vertical] bar through eye darker, bar cross preopercle." 



Giinther states that this species is closely related to M. pralinius, but it 

 differs considerably from the form which we have identified as such. 



Myripristis sealei Jenkins. 

 Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1904, 22, p. 439, fig. 13. 



Tliirteen specimens, Nos. 3228-40, 5| to Gig inches long from Wreck Bay, 

 Chatham Island. No. 3236, M. C. Z. 29621, No. 3237, M. C. Z. 29652, 

 No. 3238, M. C. Z. 29622, No. 3239, M. C. Z. 29707, No. 3240, M. C. Z. 29626. 



Owing to discrepancies in the description and figure, we have made measure- 

 ments of the Type so that in comparing our specimens we may have the same 

 personal equation. 



Proportional measurements. 



Some specimens have denticulations on the lower part of posterior maxillary, 

 others do not, the Type has none; the anal is uniformly IV, 121; scales above 



