196 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



227. Hemipteronotus pentadactylus (Linnseus). 



Nine specimens from Takao, five to six inches long. 



228. Hemipteronotus evides sp. nov. (Plate LXXII.) 



Head 3.25 in length ; depth 2.6 ; eye 4.7 in head ; snout 3 ; interorbital equal 

 to eye; dorsal II-VII, 12; anal III, 12; scales 3-28-8. Body short, deep, much 

 compressed, the greatest width 3| in greatest depth ; head short and deep, the 

 anterior profile nearly vertical ; a depression over eye ; eye high, nearly half of 

 length of head above angle of mouth ; mouth rather small, nearly horizontal, max- 

 illary not reaching front of eye, 3 in head ; teeth in jaws small, sharp, close set in 

 a single row ; two outwardly-directed recurved canines at front of each jaw. Scales 

 thin ; cheeks with smaller scales, in four or five rows ; rest of head naked ; lateral 

 line high, continuous to near end of dorsal, where it breaks, to be continued on the 

 third scale row below. Dorsal inserted over back of eye, the first two spines sepa- 

 rated from the others by a deep notch, but not detached ; length of second spine 2.4 

 in head ; origin of anal under second ray of soft dorsal ; caudal rounded ; pectoral 

 1.3 in head, its free margin nearly straight ; ventral with outer ray produced, reach- 

 ing past front of anal. 



Color in spirits dull greenish-olive ; under posterior third of spinous dorsal an 

 obliquish blotch of black surrounded by pale, the black covering most of three 

 scales ; dorsals and caudal with many small pale specks on a dusky ground ; anal 

 obliquely barred with dusky ; ventrals plain ; pectorals dusky. 



Described from two specimens from Takao, four and five inches long. 



229. Cheilio inermis (Forskal). 



Three examples from Takao, seven inches long. 

 Formosa (Jordan ifc Evermann). 



Family SCARICHTHYID.E. 



230. Scarichthys auritus ( Kuhl & Van Hasselt). 

 One specimen from Takao, seven inches long. 



231. Calotomus waigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard). 

 (Callyodon spinidens Cuvier & Valenciennes.) 



Four specimens from Takao, three and one-half to four inches long. 



232. Callyodon dussumieri (< uvier X' Valenciennes). (Plate LXXII1.) 

 (Native name Eng kocliu.) 



A fine specimen twelve inches long from Takao, agreeing with Bleeker's figure 

 and description of Pseudoscarus dussumieri, but with the right canine rather small 

 and the left wanting. Valenciennes states that Scams dusstimieri has no canines at 

 the angle of the jaws, but the description is based merely on a drawing. 



