48 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



Family T.XXIV. LUTIANID.E (Snappers). 



All the Hawaiian sj^ecies of this family belong to the aberrant group of Etelince, 

 distinguished in several wa>'S from the t>'pical members of the family, but es- 

 pecially by the scaleless doi-sal and anal fins; and most of them by the broad 

 flattish cranium. 



RoosEVELTiA Jordan and Evermann. 



In this genus the body is relatively deep, the canines strong, the tongue tooth- 

 less, and the pectoral falcate. The typical species was at first referred to Serranus 

 Cuvier, to whicli genus it bears little resemblance, and afterwards to Apsilns 

 Cuvier, to which it is closely related. 



285. Rooseveltia brighami (Scale). Ukikiki; Kalikali. (J. & E., p. 233.) 

 This beautiful fisli, one of the handsomest found in Hawaii, light crimson in 



color, marked with three broad golden cross-bands, is now common in the markets, 

 as the Japanese fishermen operate in deeper water than the Hawaiians, whom as 

 fishermen they have now succeeded. 



286. Rooseveltia aloha Jordan and Snyder. 

 Known only from th(^ original type. 



Pristipomoides Bleeker. 

 (Platyinms Gill {vorax = ■macropJithalmus); Bowersin Jordan & Evermann.) 



We are unable to separate the Hawaiian species, called Boiversia, from the 

 East Indian genus Pristipomoides. The only difference of any importance is in 

 the slenderer body of the Hawaiian species. The West Indian form called Platyinius 

 is eciually close, the body being a little deeper than in either of the others. Pri.sti- 

 pomoides spams and P. microlcpis seem to be genuine members of this genus. 



Sparopsis Kner, rc^f erred to the synonymy of Pristipomoides by Bleeker, 

 belongs to the Denticiruv and to the genus or subgenus SynM/ris {Anemura Fowler) 

 allied to Nemipterus. Pristipomoides has canines in both jaws ; no filamentous spines ; 

 no teeth on tongue; last ray of dorsal and of anal elongate; ]:)ectoral long, falcate; 

 scales relatively large, about sixty. This genus and the next are offshoots from 

 Aprio7i, to which both are closely related. The account of the teeth of Bowersia 

 violescens bj' Jordan and ]<]vermann is not correct, as the tongue is toothless. 



287. Pristipomoides violescens (Jordan and Evermann). Opnkapaka. (J. & E., 

 pp. 234, 236.) 



Apsilus microdon, as described bj- Jordan and Evermann, is the young of this 

 species. Steindachner's fish was, however, Ulaula sieholdi. 



