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Hawaii. The species is rose red in life, though less brilliant than 

 Etelis carhimeulics, and it also has a golden lateral streak. Though 

 Jordan and Evermann give the maximum as 647 mm. the largest I 

 examined was 585 mm. 



50714 U.S.N.M. Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. Dr. J. C. Wood, 1889. Length 



373? mm. Type of Eteliscus marshi. 

 52673 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 288 mm. 



ETELIS CARBUNCULUS Cuvier 



Etelis carbunculus Cvviek, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 127, pi. 18. Mah6, 

 Seychelles. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 79 (Mauri- 

 tius).— Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 448 (copied).— 

 GuiCHENOT, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 23. — Playfair, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1867, p. 846 (Seychelles). — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., 

 vol. 3, 1901, p. 77 (Nagasaki). — Jordan and W. F. Thompson, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 39, 1911, p. 465 (paratypes of Etelis evurus; Havana). — 

 Fowler, Bull. Bishop Mus., No. 22, 1925, p. 26 (Honolulu) ; Mem. Bishop 

 Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 193, pi. 17a (Honolulu, Hilo, type of Etelis evurus) ; 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 634 (Honolulu). 



Serranus oculatus Cxjvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 266, pi. 32. Marti- 

 nique. — ScHLEGEL, Fauna Japon., Poiss., pt. 1, 1842, p. 5 (Nagasaki Bay). 



Anthias oculatus Gtjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 92 (South 

 America, Jamaica, West Indies, Madeira). 



Etelis oculatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 449 (com- 

 piled). — Steindachneb and DoDERLiaN. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 Math. nat. Klasse, vol. 47, pt. 1, 1883, p. 223 (Nagasaki, Tokyo). 



? Labrum mithiam Lichtenstein, Descript. Animal., Forster, 1844, p. 155. 

 Tropical Pacific. 



Etelis coruscans Valenciennes, Comptes Rendu Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 54, 

 June 9, 1862, p. 1166. Bourbon.— Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1862, p. 449 (note).— GuiCHENOT, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 23. 



Etelis evurus Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 

 (1903), p. 184. Hilo, Hawaiian Islands. — Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 vol. 22, 1902 (1904), p. 527 ( Honolulu ) .—Jordan and Evermann, Bull. 

 U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 242, fig. 100, pi. 38 (Hilo, 

 Honolulu).— Jordan and Snyder, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), 

 p. 213 (Honolulu). 



Depth 3 to 33/5 ; head 3 to 31/3, width 2 to 214. Snout 31/2 to 3% 

 in head from snout tip; eye 2% to 3^/^, greater than snout or inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches eye center, expansion 3 to 31/5 in eye, 

 length 2 to 214 in head from upper jaw tip; each jaw with band of 

 fine teeth and outer row of larger ones, above pair of wide-spaced 

 slightly larger as canines; band of small teeth across vomer and on 

 each palatine; interorbital Si/s to 3% in head, scarcely elevated, 

 level ; preopercle edge minutely denticulated. Gill rakers 10 + 14, 

 lanceolate, 2 or 3 above as rudiments, much greater than gill fila- 

 ments or 21/^ in eye. 



Scales 46 to 48 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 to 8 more on 

 latter; G or 7 scales above lateral line, 12 or 13 below, 17 to 20 pre- 

 dorsal, 6 rows on cheek. Suprascapula denticulate. Scales with 6 



