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Callyodon bennctti Jordan and Evermann, U. S. Fish Comm. Bull., vol. 23, pt. 

 1, p. 352, veith plate. Honolulu. 

 Pseudoscarus duhius Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, vol. 8, p. 313. 



This species has passed as /Sca7"us hennetti Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes, which name, however, was given somewhat later than 

 duhius. The two species are said by Giinther to have been founded 

 on the same type specimen. Unfortunately, the name duhius was 

 later misapplied to the fish here named Scams galena, and the name 

 hennetti accepted for the present form, which is distinguished by 

 the three longitudinal white streaks along side of belly; the ground 

 color is lead gray. 



SCARUS GALENA E. K. Jordan, new species. 



Pseudoscarus duMus Gunther (not Bennett) Cat., vol. 4, p. 229, 1862. 

 Callyodon duhius Jordan and EvKRjrANN (not Bennett), U. S. Fish Comni. 

 Bull. 23, pt. 1, p. 350, pi. 44, 1903. 



Head 3.1 in length; depth 3.1; eyes 6 in head; snout 3; preorbital 

 5; interorbital 3.2; D IX, 10; A. Ill; P. 14; scales 2-25-6. 



Body moderately elongate, not deep, and not greatly compi-essed; 

 head short ; snout short ; mouth small, horizontal, slightly below axis 

 of body, lower jaw included; upper lip covering about two thirds 

 of upper dental plate, lower lip leaving about one-half of lower 

 teeth exposed; a well developed posterior canine in upper jaw of 

 most specimens, this occasionally obsolete or lost; teeth white; eye 

 small, lower edge of orbit in line with axis of body; interorbital 

 space wide, broadly convex; scales large, 4 on median line before 

 dorsal; 2 complete rows of scales on each cheek below eye, a third 

 row occasionally represented by one or two small scattered scales, 

 partially embedded; subopercle with a single row; opercle scaled; 

 lateral line interrupted under last dorsal ray, to reappear again 2 

 lows farther down, 18 pores in the first and 7 in the last; tubes of 

 lateral line with very short branches. 



Dorsal spines soft and flexible, their length scarcely equalling 

 snout; soft dorsal not elevated, the border of the entire fin uni- 

 formly rounded ; anal similar to soft dorsal, its rays equalling snout ; 

 caudal lunate, the outer rays somewhat, though not greatly pro- 

 duced, their relative length variable; pectoral not quite reaching 

 origin of anal. 



Color of specimen after about a month in formalin but probably 

 little altered, deep leaden gray, very little lighter on belly, the center 

 of each scale darker; no distinct markings of any kind on body or 

 head; pectorals and ventrals pale; vertical fins all dark and uni- 

 form except for the caudal which is abruptly tipped with pale. 



Four examples of this species were taken by me in the market of 

 Honolulu. 



