FISHKS OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 58V) 



Our .•specimens have a very slemler form, and a narrow slightly uj)turncil .snout, whicli iinitrudi^s 

 beyond the tip of the mandible, though to a less extent than is indicated in the figure of thi' type; 

 maxillary reaching to or beyond nuddle of cheek; the narrow tip of the mandil)Ie soft and flexible, 

 fitting behind tlie premaxillary teeth; teeth slender anil showing the usual arrangement; an inner iouger 

 series and an outer shorter series of teeth in the jaws and on the palatines, both depressible; tongue 

 and Ijasibranehials covered with large teeth, wliicli, in the closed mouth, ()ecu|)y the me(lial depression 

 between the jialatines; eye surr(iun<le<l by a narrow but heavy adipose ring, of very irregular contour, 

 containing a small sharp notch al)c)ve the middle of the jiosterior side, and an abrupt notch and angle 

 postero-inferiorly; thesuperior margin dci-ply incised; iiositiouand proportions of tins as represented in 

 the figure of the type cited below. 



Color, lower half of side bright silvery, marked with alternately wide and narrow cross-bars. In 

 some specimens still narrower bars divide the intervals between the primary and secondary l)ars. 

 Dorsal fin translucent, the rays occasionally witli dusky cross-bars. 



Taken at the following stations: Nos. 4079, off the north coast of Maui, 143 to ITS fathoms; 4!UI, 

 Pailolo Channel, 122 to 143 fathoms; 4102, Pailolo Chainiel, 122 to 132 fathoms; 4104, I'ailolo Channel, 

 123 to 141 fathoms. 



Saurtis kaianus Guuttier, Short- Fisfu-s, I'hiillcim^cr. l>^s(i. .Mi, pi. x.mii, lij,'. c. Ki Islands; in 129 fatlioms, 



Saurida gracilis I'iuoy A <iaimard). 



Ti'keu at station 4068, off the north coast of Maui, 14 to is fathoms. 



Trachinocephalus myops (Forster). 



Taken at the following stations: Nos. .38.50, off the .south coast of Molokai, 43 to tjti fathoms: 40H7, 

 off the north coast of Maui. 10 to 14 fathoms. 



Family AULOPID.-E. 

 Chlorophthalmus proridens Gilbeit A Cramer. 



In the light of our almndant material the following notes are added to the original accouni of the 

 species : 



Distance from tiji of snout to tiji of ventrals 2.4 in length of head and body; base of anal 4.3 to 4..") 

 in head. Pectorals extending well behind vent, 1.2 in head; ventrals shorter than in the type, 1.7 to 

 1.8 in head; anal with 9 rays, the last ray cleft to base; body as wide as deep immediately in front of 

 pectoral fin, much narrower than deej) at all points jwisterior to this; head wider than deeji immediately 

 behind eyes. Maxillary gradually widened behind (not "abru])tly expanded" ); with a narrow rod- 

 shaped supernumerary bone, movably attached by mend)rane, along thedistal two-thirds of its posterior 

 edge. • Sides of mandible with a narrow band ( about 2 si'ries ) of small teeth, those of the inner series 

 larger than the ijtliers; the symphyseal continuation of this band consists of a single series of somewhat 

 larger teeth, directed almost horizontally backward; in front of this series, occupying the upi)er surface 

 of the protruding symphyseal knol), are 2 series of teeth, laterally in contact, separated mesially l)y a 

 wide space; the anterior series consisting of strong conic-al teeth, directed horizontally forward, the 

 inner series much smaller, directed posteriorly; premaxillary witu a narrow band of teeth occupying its 

 n tire length; head of vomer with a projecting lobe on each side, each lobe with a single series of 5 or g 

 strong teeth; palatines with a single series occupying the anterior three-fifths of their length, the series 

 aliruptly widening at anterior end to form a knob; a few minute teeth scattered over surface of tongue 

 can be niade out with dittlculty; vertical lind) of anterior branchial arch adnate to gill-cover bv a fold 

 of membrane, as in )fiicriiiinis. 



Scales strongly ctenoid on liack and sides (not i-ycloid, as descri)ii-d); c-ycloid on breast, belly, and 

 under aide of tail; opercles comjiletely scaled; a few of the scales on cheeks and opercles with short 

 spinous points. 



Color grayish silvery, the ujiper parts (•oar.sely lihicU-pnnctatc; a narrow blackish vertebral streak ; 

 margins of snout and of mandible blackish; a dusky patch on cheeks, below eye; interorbitals and 

 occiput blackish, the opercles black; anterior 2 or 3 dorsal rays black on basal third; a blackish bar 



