372 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



4 examples, Nogas Point, Panay. February 4, 1908. Length, 55 to 120 mm. 



85480 U.S.N. M. Formosa. Dr. F. Baker. Length, 76 to 133 mm. 4 examples. 



29729 A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 190 mm. 



28238 to 28239 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Fish Comm. Lengthy 



248 mm. 



48652 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. Length, 



145 mm. 



HEMIPTERONOTUS CELEBICUS (Bleeker) 



Novacula celebica Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Ne6rl. (Manado), vol. 1, 1856^ 



p. 61. Macassar. 

 Hemipteronoius celebicus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nderl., vol. 1, 1862^ 



p. 153, pi. 30, fig. 5 (Celebes and Amboina). 



Depth 3; head 334, width 2%. Snout 2; eye 5}4, 2^ in 

 snout, equals interorbital; maxillary reaches J4 to eye, 3}i in head; 

 interorbital 6, convex, with trenchant keel forward. Gill raker& 

 7 + 8, lanceolate, robust, short. 



Scales in lateral Ime 19 + 4 + 1; 3 scales above lateral line, 10 

 below. Scales with 52 basal radiating striae; 20 apical feeble and 

 indistinct; circuli very fine. 



D. II, VII, 12, 1, eighth spine 4% in head, first ray 3}4; A. Ill, 12^ 

 I, third spine 4%, first ray 3%; caudal ly^, convex behind; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 13^; ventral IJ^. 



Brown generally, little paler below. Pale slate blotch at tip of 

 depressed pectoral, in size about equal to eye diameter. Dull gray 

 streak extends from dark post-pectoral blotch, another along anal 

 base parallel, also vertical gray bar on scales of caudal base. Fins all 

 whitish. Dorsals with slight oblique pale gray lines. Anals pale^ 

 with whitish basal horizontal line and another subbasal white line. 

 Iris pale straw yellow. 



East Indian region. Known only from the two examples reported 

 by Bleeker. 



3190. Makassar market. December 22, 1909. Length, 147 mm. Differs from 

 Bleeker's figure in the large post-costal spot with grayish bars, also blotch at 

 caudal base dififerent in shape. 



Family CALLYODONTIDAE 



PARROT FISHES 



Body usually oblong or moderately compressed. Mouth moderate 

 or small, terminal. Front teeth more or less united as a parrot-like 

 beak. Palate toothless. Two nostrils. Gills, 4. Pharyngeal bones, 

 flat, with tessellated or mosaic teeth; lower completelj'^ fused as con- 

 cave or spatulate bone, without suture medially. No subocular shelf. 

 Vertebrae 24 or 25, of which 14 caudal. Scales large, cycloid, 23 ta 

 27 in lateral line. Dorsal spines 9, rays 10. Anal with 2 spines and 

 9 rays. 



