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55626. U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 46 mm. 



57917 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 37 to 60 mm. 



Three examples. 

 57951. U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 43 to 58 mm. 



Six examples. 

 71602. U.S.N.M. Nafa, Okinawa. Albatross collection 1906. Length 87 to 



126 mm. Seven examples. As Hepatus dussumieri. 

 72195 U.S.N.M. Calayan. R. C. McGregor. Length 117 mm. 

 84185 U.S.N.M. Philippine Islands. Dr. F. Baker. Length 77 mm. 

 55940 U.S.N.M. Bulan. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 165 mm., 



HEPATUS GLAUCOPAREIUS (Schneider) 



Harpurus glaucopareius (Forster) Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, 



p. 212. Tahiti. 

 Acanihurus glaucopareius Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 10, 1835, 



p. 190 (Oualan; Moluccas). — Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerland., vol. 



1, No. 5, 1856, p. (6) 47 (Amboina); vol. 2, No. 7, 1857, p. 5 (Amboina).— 



GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 339 (type; Amboina); 



Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 4, 1875, p. 114, pi. 71, fig. A (Polynesia, 



East Indies). 

 Harpurus nigricans (not Chaetodon nigricans Linnaeus) Forster, Fauna 



Indica, 1795, p. 15. 

 Acanihurus aliala Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, 1830, p. 150. 



Oualan, Carolines. — Herre, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, No. 4, Dec. 



1927, p. 416, pi. 2, "fig. 2 (New Washington). 

 Teuthis aliala Jordan and McGregor, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., pt. 24, 



1898, (1899) p. 280 (Clarion and Socorro Islands). 

 Acanihurus kaber (Montrouzier) THiOLLi:feRE, Fauna Woodlark, 1857, 



p. 178 (name in synonymy). 

 Acanihurus blochi (not Valenciennes) Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



7, 1877, p. 68 (Honolulu). 

 Hepatus maioides (not Valenciennes) Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., 



vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 352 (Apia). 



Depth 1% to 1^4; head 3}4 to 3%, width IJi to 2. Snout 1^ 

 to 134; eye 3 to 3}/^, 2% to 25-5 in snout, 1 to 11-5 in interorbital; 

 teeth 12 in each jaw; maxillary 334 to 33^ in head; interorbital 2% 

 to Syu, convexly elevated; opercle scarcely striate. Gill rakers 5 + 15, 

 short, feeble points. 



Scales minute, with obscure, crowded and extremely small circuli; 

 apical denticles 12 to 15, with 5 or 6 series of transverse basal 

 elements. 



D. IX, 29 to 31, ninth spine 1^ to 1% in head, fifth ray 1% to 

 1^; A. Ill, 26 to 29, third spine 23/g to 2%, fifth ray 2 to 2>^; cau- 

 dal emarginate, points angular but not produced, fin 1 in head; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2%'to 2^i; pectoral 1 to 13^8; ventral 1% 

 to 14. 



Deep umber brown generally. Grayish crescent below eye. Whit- 

 ish crescent around and across lower jaw, but not meeting above on 

 snout. Iris olivaceous. Dorsals and anals blackish-brown, with 



