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Family CVII. LYCODAPODID.E 

 Snyderidia Gilbert. 



523. Snyderidia canina Gilbert. (G., p. 655.) 

 Deep sea, off Kauai. 



Family CVIII. FIERASFERID^. (Pearl-fishes). 



{Carapidw.) 



Fierasfer Cuvier. 



(Carapiis Rafinesque, in part.) 



524. Fierasfer microdon Gilbert. (G., p. 655.) 

 A van Channel. One specimen known. 



525. Fierasfer homei (Richardson). (J. & E., p. 535.) 



One specimen from the interior of a Holothurian (Stichopus). 



JoRDANicus Gilbert. 



526. Jordanicusumbratilis (Jordan and Evermann). (J. &E.,p. 505; G., p. 656.) 

 Piiako Ray. One specimen known. Being entirely black in color, it probably 



inhabits lava-rocks, rather than the interior of Holothurians or large lamellibranchs. 



Order PLECTOGNATHI. 



Suborder SCLERODERMI. 



(This group is clearly connected with the Squamipennes.) 



Family CIX. BALISTID.E (Trigger-fishes). 



SuFFLAMEN Jordan. 



(PacJiynctthus Swainson. Name preoccupied as Pachijgnatkus, of which the 



International Commission of Nomenclature regards it as a misprint. Cf. Jordan, 



Copeia, 1916, p. 27. Ai'chetype Balistes capistratus Shaw.) 



This genus is near Balistes, differing in the convex caudal, the low, more or 

 less roimded dorsal and anal, and in the i^resence of spines or tubercles on the 

 caudal peduncle. Ventral flap with small thick syjines. Lateral line incomplete. 

 A groove before the e3'e as in Balistes. 



527. Sufflamen vidua (Solander). Hunntliuniu lu'ukolc; Humuhainu uli. (J. & 

 E., p. 409.) 



South Seas. Not common at Honolulu. 



