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Body usually slender, elongate, compressed. Back before dorsal 

 broadly flattened to occiput. Eye large. Mouth moderate, lower 

 jaw protruding. Maxillary without supplemental bone. Canines in 

 upper jaw only, strong, sometimes absent; no teeth on pterygoids or 

 tongue. Cranium wide, level. Preorbital narrow. No opercular 

 spine. Gill rakers 10 to 15 on lower arch, long, slender. Branchi- 

 ostegals 7. Scales large, above lateral line parallel with its course. 

 Head naked above. Maxillary scaly or naked. Soft dorsal not scaly. 

 Dorsal deeply notched or divided, rather short, spines 10, last ray 

 prolonged, same also of last anal ray. Anal spines 3. Caudal deeply 

 or moderately forked, upper lobe extended with age. Pectoral 

 elongate, falcate, lower rays not extended. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Etelinus. Gill rakers 6+10 to 12; caudal moderately forked marshi. 



o^ Etexis. Gill rakers 10 to 13+14 to 17; caudal deeply forked, lobes produced. 



carbunculus. 



ETELIS MARSHI (Jenkins) 



Etelisous marshi Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1907 (1908), p. 452, 



fig. 21. Honolulu. 

 Etelis marshi Jordan and Eveemann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 



1903 (1905), p. 240, fig. 100, pi. 17 (Honolulu, Hilo, Kailua).— Fowler, Bull. 



Bishop Mus., No. 22, 1925, p. 26 (Honolulu) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 



1928, p. 194, pi. 17B (Honolulu, type of EteUscus marshi) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 634 (Honolulu). 



Depth 31/5 to 3%; head 3 to 31/8, width 2. Snout 3% to ^% 

 in head from snout tip ; eye 3l^ to S%, 1 to li/s in snout, subequal 

 to 1% in eye, length 1% to 2% in head from snout tip; bands of 

 villiform teeth in jaws, outer row enlarged; band of strong sipall 

 teeth across vomer and each palatine; interorbital 314 to 3i/^, low, 

 level; hind preopercle edge finely denticulate. Gill rakers 6 + 10, 

 of which 3 to 5 above or below rudimentary, laneolate, subequal with 

 gill filaments or less than i/^ of eye. 



Scales 47 or 48 in lateral line with 3 to 5 more on latter; 6 scales 

 above lateral line, 10 to 12 below, 15 to 20 predorsal forward midway 

 in interorbital, 6 or 7 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. Supra- 

 scapula not serrate. Scales with 9 basal radiating striae; 47 to 106 

 apical denticles, with 12 to 14 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli fine. 



D. X, 11, I, third spine 2l^ to 3 in total head length, second ray 

 2% to 314 ; A. Ill, 8, I, third spine S% to 41^, first ray 2% to 3 ; 

 caudal 1% to 1, forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 31/3 to 314 ; 

 pectoral ly^ to li/4; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Brown, with dull yellowish shades above, sides lighter and 

 whitish below. Fins all pale. 



