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h\ Body rather elongate, its depth less than one-third the length to base 

 of caudal, fins mottled with dusky but not strongly barred : sides of 



body not spotted with white farrandi. 



h\ Body rather deep, its depth considerably more than one-third the 

 length. 

 c\ Sides of body with scattered pale round spots; anal nearly plain, 



not strongly barred balia. 



c^ Sides of body without prominent pale spots, sides obscurely cross- 

 banded with darker; and with three distinct oblique cross 



bars zonarcha. 



SCARIDEA AEROSA Jordan and Snyder. 



Two specimens were obtained in the Honolulu market, and, as the 

 original diagnosis was from preserved material, a description of the 

 life colors is here given. 



Ground color of bod}' dull brownish, passing into a bluish gray on 

 belly and somewhat mottled with lighter brown and grayish white, 

 the posterior margin of scales the lighter. A broad, nearly vertical 

 band of greenish golden brassy, four scales in width, on middle of 

 side, narrowing to one scale on belly and back, encircles body be- 

 tween sixth dorsal spine and the scale just before the anal opening. 



Head generally brownish like body, but below level of mouth 

 largely covered by an irregularly outlined blotch of bright scarlet, 

 broken by a brown band uniting corners of mouth, and by another 

 across isthmus. An irregular orange line runs up along upper lip, 

 but not completely across snout. Behind eye are a few scattered 

 spots of golden orange; there is no suggestion of regular markings 

 on head however. Axil of pectoral flushed with rose. 



Vertical fins dusky, irregularly mottled with lighter and darker; 

 a conspicuous black spot between first and second dorsal spines, 

 another on third from last dorsal ray. Ventrals bluish gray, with 

 faint brownish stains. Pectorals bluish and brownish, touched with 

 greenish gold toward their tips. 



Teeth white; some scarlet on inside of mouth. 



Another specimen is colored similarly except that the scarlet area 

 on head is slightly less extensive, and the brassy crossband is wider 

 and slopes more obliquely backward. 



In spirits, the red colors are at once lost, changing to a dirty gray- 

 ish, quite inconspicuous. Consequently in the original description 

 and figure no mention is made of the most striking character of the 

 fresh fish. The brassy crossband seems to be reasonably permanent. 



This is without doubt the species which Bryan,^^ from a painted 

 cast in the Bishop Museum of Honolulu and the preserved specimen 

 from which the cast was made, described and photographed as 

 '•'■ Scaridea zonarcha Jenkins, or else new species," but to wliich he 

 gave no name. 



« Biyan, William Alanson, Occ. papers of the Beinice Paualii Bishop Museum, vol. 2, 

 No. 4, p. 35. 



