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Serranus hrighami Seu\lb, Occas. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 1, No. 4, 1901, p. 7, 



fig. 3. Honolulu. 

 Aspilus brighami Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1903), p. 452 



(Honolulu).— Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1904), p. 527 



(Honolulu). — .Jordan and Evekmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 



1903 (1905), p. 233, pi. 16 (Honolulu and Kailua). 

 Rooseveltia brighami Jordan and Snyder, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), 



p. 213 (Honolulu). 

 Rooseveltia aloha Jordan and Snyder, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), 



p. 212, fig. 3. Honolulu. 



Depth 2% to 2%', head 2% to 2%, width 21/5 to 214. Snout 3 to 

 3iV in head from snout tip; eye 3% to 4%, I14 to II/2 in snout, 

 greater than interorbital or 1^ in interorbital with age ; maxillary 

 reaches % in eye, expansion 2 to 2^4 in eye, length 2^4 to 21/3 in head 

 from snout tip; teeth fine, in bands in jaws, outer row little enlarged 

 but not as prominent canines ; band of small teeth across vomer and 

 on each palatine; interorbital 4 to 41/2, convex; preopercle edge 

 minutely denticulate. Gill rakers 7+12, lanceolate, greater than gill 

 filaments or i/^ of eye ; 5 above and 3 below rudimentary. 



Scales 62 to 66 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 to 8 more on 

 latter; 7 or 8 scales above lateral line, 16 or 17 below, 16 to 18 pre- 

 dorsal forward to occiput opposite hind eye edge, 6 or 7 rows on 

 cheek to preopercle riclge. Suprascapula denticulate. Scales with 

 9 or 10 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 61 to 95, with 6 to 12 

 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. X, 10, I, third spine 2% to 2% in total head length, second ray 

 2% to 2%; A. Ill, 8, i, third spine 31/5 to 31/3, first ray 2% to 2%; 

 caudal li/g to IV5, deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2% to 3; pectoral l^V to li/g; ventral 1^4 to II/3. 



Brown, paler to whitish below. Upper surface of head usually 

 darker. Three dark oblique broad bands on back and upper sides, 

 variably wider or narrower than pale interspaces. Fins all pale. 



Mauritius, Madagascar, Hawaii. A very handsome species, 

 largely yellow with three inclined red bands and head red. Reaches 

 450 mm. 

 5270S U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 455 mm. As 



Aspilus brighami. 

 57784 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. Bureau of Fisheries 1909. Type of Rooseveltia 



alohoa. 

 62367 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. D. S. Jordan, 1908. 



One example. A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Bishop Museum. Length 373 mm. 

 One example. A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Henry W. Fowler. Length 275 mm. 



Genus APRION Valenciennes 



Aprion Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 543. Type Aprion 



virescens Valenciennes, monotypic. 

 Sparopsis Knek, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 58, 1868, pp. 27, 302. Type 



Sparopsis latifrons KNEit, monotypic. 



