358 SNODGRASS AND HELLER 



brown (dusky in alcohol) ; spines of dorsal like back, membranes 

 yellowish, with bluish base ; soft dorsal and anal cherry-red with first 

 ray white-edged, a black blotch at tip of first rays; caudal fin like 

 back, with upper and lower rays white-edged, a dark blotch just 

 within the tip of each lobe; pectoral like side; ventrals lighter red 

 with the first ray white-edged; iris silvery and cardinal. 



The specific identification here given Is based on a direct comparison 

 of the Cocos and Galapagos specimens with Hawaiian specimens. 



39. HOLOTRACHYS LIMA (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Myripristis lime (Zv^ii¥.^ & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 493, He de 



France. — Cuvier, Regne animal, iii, Poiss., pi. 14, fig. 2. 

 Myripristis lima, Gunther, Cat., I, 28, 1859. — Kner & Steindachner, 

 Sitz. Akad. Wissen. Wien, Liv, 375, pi. i, fig. i, 1866 (Samoa). — Gun- 

 ther, Fische der Siidsee, 93, pi. 63, fig. A, 1875 (Mauridus, Samoan, 

 Hawaiian and Kingsmill islands). 

 Holotrachys lima, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxii, 1902 (1903), 439 

 (Honolulu). 



Ra7ige. — Isle of France, Mauritius, Samoan, Gilbert, Hawaiian 

 and Cocos islands. 



Two specimens of this species secured in Chatham Bay at Cocos 

 Island, the first taken in American waters. 



Description. — Head 2\ ; depth 2 ; eye 4 in head ; snout 4! ; inter- 

 orbital 5^; maxillary i|; D. XII, 15; A. IV, 11; scales 5-40-9. 

 Body ovoid, not much compressed ; profile roundly convex from snout 

 to front of dorsal, from here to front of soft dorsal slightly descending 

 posteriorly, then abruptly curved downward to caudal jDcduncle, mak- 

 ing nearly a right angle with the dorsal edge of the latter; ventral 

 profile similar to dorsal; mouth large, slightly oblique; lower jaw 

 included and armed at symphysis with a prominent knob; upper q(\^q, 

 of premaxillary on level with lower margin of eye ; angle of opercle 

 armed with 2 short, rather stout, spines, of about equal length, 3 

 in eye; these spines followed below angle by smaller spines on mar- 

 gins of opercle and subopercle ; preopercle with a short spine at 

 angle; interopercle with a very small spine at its angle; subopercle, 

 preopercle, opercle, occipit, interopercle, and shoulder-girdle with 

 their edges serrate: lower edge of maxillary and of subopercle entire; 

 gillrakers 8 -f 12, of moderate length, those at angle as long as the 

 gill-filaments; teeth small, villiform in bands in both jaws, a trans- 

 verse oval patch on vomer and club-shaped patches on palatines. 



Dorsal fin deeply emarginate before soft part ; spinous part begin- 

 ning above base of pectoral, margin rounded, fourth and fifth spines 

 highest, 3 in head, slightly less than height of soft dorsal ; spines het- 



