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entire. Gill rakers 6 + 14, lanceolate, little longer than gill filaments 

 and 1% in eye. 



Scales 45 to 47 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 or 5 more on 

 latter; 7 scales above lateral line, 14 or 15 below, 14 to 17 predorsal, 

 7 rows on cheek. Suprascapula entire. Scales with 14 basal radiat- 

 ing striae ; apical denticles 73 short feeble points, with 8 to 10 trans- 

 verse series of basal elements ; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 11, I, fifth spine 2% to 2% in total head length, last ray 

 3 to 31/8 ; A. Ill, 8, i, third spine 41^ to 5, last ray 3 to 31/3 ; caudal 

 1 to IV5, deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% to 4; 

 pectoral 21/5 to 2% ; ventral 1% to 1%- 



Back brown, below paler to whitish. Iris light yellowish brown. 

 Fins all brownish. Ventrals neutral gray terminally. 



Keunion, Seychelles, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, Queensland, 

 Polynesia, Hawaii. Known by its slender fusiform appearance, 

 especially by the small pectoral much less than the ventral and large 

 canine teeth in the outer series of the jaw. 



A814. Galera Bay, Miudoro. October 27, 1909. Length 458 mm. 



A532. Tambun Sigambiil, Tonquil Island. September 14, 1909. Length 635 mm. 



9395. Zamboanga market. September 7, 1909. Length 486 mm. Olive with 

 purplish shade above, becoming white on breast and belly terminally, hyaline 

 dusky with some olive shades in membranes and distinct blackish blotches 

 at base of posterior spinous membranes ; caudal similar to body ; anal very 

 pale purplish, with white areas on bases of spines and membranes ; ventrals 

 more or less purplish ; pectorals dusky. Specimen taken in market does not 

 show the brown shade of Bleeker's plate, true color probably olive. 



52741 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 341 mm, 



55168 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. Albatross Collection. Length 178 mm. 



28195 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries (No. 05207). Length 

 240 mm. 



Genus PRISTIPOMOIDES Bleeker 



Pristipomoides Bleekee, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. (574) 

 575. Type Pristipomoides typus Bleeke:k, monotypic. 



Chaetopterus (not Cuvier 1830-) Schlegel. Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 5-6, 

 1844, p. 78. Atypic. Type Chaetopterus sleholdii Bleeker. 



Platyinius Giix, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 236. Type Meso- 

 p7'ion vorax Poey, monotypic. 



Botversia Jordan and Eve:kmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (April 

 11, 1903), p. 182. Type Boioersia violescens Jordan and Evermann, desig- 

 nated by Jordan, Genera of Fishes, pt. 4, 1920, p. 504. 



Ulaula Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, 1911, p. 459. 

 Type Bowersia ulaula Jordan and Evermann, orthotypic. 



Body compressed, oblong or somewhat elongate. Head com- 

 pressed, somewhat small. Eye large. Mouth moderate. Canines 

 large or small in jaws, villiform teeth on vomer and palatines, some- 

 times on tongue. Preopercle finely and feebly serrate, with broad 

 flange. Scales moderate or small. Jaws and front of head naked. 



