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Teeth small, sharp, even, in broad bands, none on vomer or palatines. Tiateral 

 line well developed. Each ray of dorsal and anal with a seri(>s of scales; these 

 fins falcate, the front lobe acute. Caudal deeply forked, the lobes acute. Pec- 

 torals long, falcate. Maxillary scaly. Snout and lower jaw naked. Gill-rakers 

 of moderate length, stifif and strong, not numei'ous, the number about X + 12, the 

 longest about half of eye. 

 232. Eumegistus illustris sp. nov. Jordan and Jordan. (PL II, fig. 1.) 



Type: No. 3899, ('. M., Honolulu. Collector D. S. Jordan. 



Head 3.4 in length; depth 2; dorsal rays III, 28; anal rays 11, 20; ventrals 

 I, 5; scales 9-58-22; eye 3.5 in head; snout 4.5; maxillary 1.75. 



Body broadly ovate, its outlines regular; an even curve from ti]) of snout to 

 dorsal, a similar curve below; caudal peduncle rather slender. Head mode ate, 

 high above eye; preorbital narrow; maxillary broad, its diameter at tip two-fifths 

 of eye, extending to below middle of the large eye; mouth very oblique, the lower 

 jaw heavy and projecting, its tip entering the profile. Preopercle entire, evenly 

 rounded; opercle without spine or angle; scales on head small, smaller about the 

 eye, lower jaw and forehead scaleless or nearly so. Scales on body thick, smooth, 

 without cmargination or vertical ridge, those on sides much larger than those 

 along bases of dorsal and anal; each ray of dorsal and anal with a series of scales, 

 each scale broader than high; lateral line well developed, concurrent with the 

 back; a long scaly appendage at base of ventrals, the soft raj's of which fin are 

 also scaly. Lobe of dorsal acute, 1.1 in head, 2.1 in depth of body; anal lobe 3 

 in depth; upper caudal lobe slightly the longer, 1.9 in depth in fin, deeply lunate, 

 with produced tips; iu>ctoral reaching seventeenth dorsal ray, 1 .6 in depth of bod}'; 

 ventrals short, 3.5 in depth. 



Color lustrous brownish black; the edge of dorsal and anal black above the 

 paler scales; posterior edge of caudal alii-u]itl>- white; outer edges of jx'ctorals and 

 ventrals also white. 



The type of this sj)ecies is a single sp(>cimen found in the market of Honolulu. 

 It was about two feet in length, weighing nearly nine pounds. It was regarded as 

 one of the best food-fishes, selling at fifty cents per pound, but no one seems to 

 have ever seen it before. On account of its great bulk the senior author was 

 unable to take the fish as a whole, but only those parts which upon the plate are 

 delineated in detail. The white parts of this figure were left behind to be sold by 

 the dealer. 



