ART. 33. NOTES ON FISHES OF HAWAII E. K. JORDAN 41 



Seven specimens taken in the Honolulu market, all from 4 to 5i/^ 

 inches in length; two others in Stanford University (Cat. No. 8465) 

 collected by E. L. Berndt in Honolulu. 



Type.— C^t. No. 87420, U.S.N.M. cotypes are Cat. No. 23373 in the 

 Stanford University collection ; a paratype is at Cornell University. 



This species is related to Cantherines sandwichiensis (Quoy and 

 Gaimard) the common species about Hawaii, but it differs markedly 

 in color, being a dull olive, mottled and clouded, but without black 

 or white spots; the fins are a paler olive. In C. sandwichiensis the 

 body is uniform plain brownish black, not clouded with darker, 

 usually with small round black spots more or less numerous on head 

 and anterior parts. The dorsal and anal fins in C. sandioichiensis 

 are higher than in C. verecundus and bright orange red in life and the 

 caudal plain blackish. In C. verecundus the caudal has two diffuse 

 crossbars of blackish with paler interspaces and the dorsal and anal 

 are plain dusky brown, without red or orange. The dorsal spine in 

 C. verecundus is shorter, stouter, and rougher, and the ventral flap 

 (more or less) deeper than in the other, this feature being subject to 

 some variation. 



The third species of Cantherines recorded from Hawaii. C. albo- 

 TTiaculatus Scale {(J punctulatus Kegan) has the body marked with 

 profuse white spots. C. armatus Garman from Fiji has more than 

 40 dorsal and anal rays. G. nigricans Macleay from New Guinea 

 has the rays, D. 26, A. 23. G. fuliginosus Macleay also from New 

 Guinea, with long dorsal spine is apparently quite distinct. 



{Verecundus .f modest.) 



Genus MONACANTHUS Cuvier 



MONACANTHUS SPILOSOMUS Lay and Bennett. 



The genus Stephanolepis, distinguished fi'om Monacanthus by the 

 narrowness of the ventral flap, can hardly be maintained as the 

 character is subject to intergradations. 



Family TETRAODONTIDAE 



Genus LAGOCEPHALUS Swainson 



LAGOCEPHALUS OCEANICUS Jordan and Evermann. 



In a cast in the Bishop Museum, the back is nearly black, the 

 sides abruptly silvery, but with no trace of the round black spots 

 seen in the original types. This species stands at the extreme of a 

 series, which in Japan shades off by degrees into the genus 

 Sphoeroides Lacepede. Sphoeroides is the original form of this 

 word first used in an unsigned review of Lacepede 1798. Spheroides 

 dates from 1806. 



