Three New Haivaiian Fishes. 27 



The type (B. P. B. Museum No. 3363) here described was 

 secured iu Honolulu market, February 8, 1903, aud measures 

 22 inches. (Fig- 3- ) 



Pseudoscams vitriolinus, new species. 



Head 2 in body; depth 2; eye 8 in head; snout 2.1; preorbi- 

 tal 4; interorbital 2.6; D. ix, 7; A. 11, 8; P. 1.33; V. 2; C. 2.1; 

 scales 1^2-25-6. 



Teeth deep blue-green; caudal slightly rounded; body robust; 

 cheeks with two rows of five and six scales respecftively; lower 

 limb of opercle with six scales; two very small pointed canines at 

 the angle of the mouth; about half of the upper and lower dental 

 plate covered by the lips; front profile blunt. 



Color in formalin X alcohol. General color, dirty grayish 

 white; all the fins more or less greenish; a pale flesh-colored line 

 along the middle of the dorsal and at the base of the anal; upper 

 and lower lip, side of head, and radiating stripes from the eye 

 greenish. 



Color (based on plaster cast colored from life) . Dorsal anterior 

 half of the body, greenish, passing to greenish yellow, becoming 

 yellow back of the tip of the pectoral, this color extending to the 

 caudal peduncle; caudal peduncle green, with pinkish scale mark- 

 ings; abdomen and sides of body pinkish, varied with green and 

 blue scale markings; two parallel blue lines the diameter of the 

 eye in width, extending from a little posterior of the base of the 

 pectoral to even with the anterior base of anal; a green line along 

 the belly from base of ventrals to anal; top of head bluish green; 

 edge of upper and lower lips pink; base of upper and lower lip 

 joined to an ill-defined patch reaching to and extending below the 

 eye, green; a narrow band along the snout to the eye pale pink; 

 pink and green stripes radiating from the eye; iris yellow and red; 

 dorsal blue, with a dull salmon-red stripe along the basal third, 

 beginning at the base of the first dorsal spine and extending back 

 the length of fin; on the posterior half of dorsal the salmon-colored 

 stripe extends up the fin rays a short distance; on the last five rays 

 these projedlions join to inclose irregular green membrane spots; 

 pectoral bluish green; basally marked with pink; several irregular 

 pink spots scattered over the fin; ventral greenish blue; anal with 

 a wavy stripe of pink at the base, which extends the whole length 



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