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are on caudal peduncle, the series of prickles decreasing in number towanl heail, the scales on najie 

 and cheeks being largely smooth; scales greatly reduced in size on nape and on lireast and belly, in 4 

 oblique rows on cheeks; breast flat, without ridge, no enlarged or carinated plates on ))reast or belly; 

 dorsal and anal tins in narrow scaleless grooves, bounded by series of enlarged scales, each of which is 

 crossed by an oblique spinous ridge; 11 or 12 such scales along base of soft dorsal and anal fins; 

 they decrease in size anteriorly along the base of spinous dorsal, finally merging into the smaller 

 scales of back and nape; lateral line less arched than the back-, but reaching axis of body first on 

 caudal peduncle; six lengthwise series of scales between lateral line and base of soft dorsal. 



Color grayish silvery, overlaid witli more or less steel-gray, and with some iilumbeous streaks and 

 markings; a plundieous bar below eye, involving posterior end of mandibles; a narrow plumt)eous 

 streak ahmg middle of caudal penduncle, expanding posteriorly to cover whole base of tail; above and 

 below this streak the caudal peduncle is flesh-colored, as is also the snout, inferorliital region, jaws, 

 and branchiostegals; spinous dorsal blackish, light at base; other fins whitish, unmarked; narrow 

 blackish streaks on supraorbital riilge, diverging fmm middle of snout to margin of preorbital, on lips 

 and along mandibles. 



Capromimm ahbreviatns (Hector) is described and figured by Giinther (Deep-sea Fishes, Clial- 

 lenger, 1887, 42, PI. X, tig. B) as having smooth scales and naked imlate. Anligonia mulleri Klunzinger 

 (Sitzungsb. Akad. Wissen. Wien, LXXX, 1,880, 3S0, PI. V, fig. 3) is placed by Giinther in the syn- 

 onymy of ubbrcrintus, but the author gives no indication of the nature of tlie scales or of the dentition. 

 In the original description of ('. abhrtriatus (Hector, Trans. X. Z. Inst., vii, 1875, 2.39-2.50) the scales 

 are said to be "very na'rrow and rough." 



Only the tyjje is known. 



Family CH.^TODOMII).^. 



Chsetodou corallicola Snyder. 



Stations No. 4031, Penguin Bank, .south coast of Oahu, 27 to 2.S fathoms; 4032, Penguin Bank, 

 south coast of Oahu, 27 to 29 fathoms; 4034, Penguin Bank, south coast of Oahu, 14 to 28 fathoms. 



Holacanthus fisheri Snyder. 



Stations No. 3847, off the south coast of ilolokai, 23 to 24 fathoms; .3872, channel between Maui 

 and Lanai, 32 to 43 fathoms; 3876, channel between Maui ami Lanai, 28 to 43 fathoms; 4031, Penguin 

 Bank, south coast of Oahu, 27 to 28 fathoms; 4032, Penguin Bank, .south coast of Oahu, 27 to 29 

 fathoms; 4033, Penguin Bank, south coast of Oahu, 28 to 29 fathoms; 4034, Penguin Bank, south coast 

 of Oahu, 14 to 28 fathoms. 



Family B.\LISTII).€. 

 Balistes bursa Lacepcde. 

 Station 4032, Penguin P.aidc, south coast Oahu Island, 27 to 29 fathoms. 



Family M0NACANTHH).4i. 



Stephanolepis spilosonius (Lay i^; Bennetl). 



Stations Nos. 4147, near Bird Island, 23 to 2ii fallioms; 414S, near I'.inl Island, 2() to 3.3 fatlunns; 

 4107, near Bird Island, 18 to 20 fathoms. 



Stephanolepis pricei Snyder. 



Station 4021, near Kauai, 2Sl) to 399 fathoms. 



Probably entered the trawl nuich nearer the surface than above indicated. 



