KISHKS OK HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. ti ( 5 



preoral portion of snout, without terminal sjiine; teelli minute, in \vi<le bands in eaeh jaw, noneol them 

 at all eularjred; liarliel half as loni; as diameter of ])ni)il; near lipof su(jnt, on lower side, a small patch 

 of prickles, similar to tlio.se coveriui; infraorbital ridj^e, and like them adnate to the bone; with this 

 exeeiition all the region below infraorbital ridge, including mamlibles, is smooth, without scales, 

 prickles, or tubercles (in ('. piii-nllchix all of this region, exce])t gular and branchial memljranes, is 

 thickly beset with irregular small i>lates, each bearing from 1 to '■'< spines); where the gill-iriembranes 

 are joined a<To.ss throat tlu'V form a narrow free fold; gill-rakers i-epresented l)y small tuljcri'les, 7 or 8 

 in number on outer arch. 



First dor.sal tin inserted well behind axil of jiectorals; i>reilor.saI region invested with scales similar 

 to those of sides, arranged in regular series, and scarcely reduced in size; second dorsal spine smooth 

 throughout, very slender and weak, its terminal portion as flexible as the rays; length of dorsal spine 

 equal to that of snout; distance between dorsals e(|ual to base of tinst dorsal exclusive of the 2 spines; 

 anal originatmg a trifle behind front of second dorsal; anal opening immediately before origin of anal 

 fin, its distance from inner liase of ventrals a trifle less than the distance from latter to margin of the 

 gill-membranes on median line; this measurement remains almost constant in specimens of very 

 different size. In a specimen of ('. ptindlelnx from Misaki, .Tapan, and in (hinther's figure (Kermadec 

 Islands) the distance from base of ventrals to vent is nuich greater than between ventrals an<l edge of 

 gill-membrane. In ('. umlruiii, the ventral filament reaches vent. 



Scales of back and sides each with 6 to 1.5 strong spines arranged in 3 to 5 nearly parallel series. 

 The spines stand out at an angle of 45°, those of the central series somewhat larger than those of the 

 lateral rows, and the spines in each row increasing r;r|)idly to the posterior one, wliich ()rojects well 

 beyond margin of s<'ale in both me<lian and lateral series; the spines are longer and slenderer than in 

 a specimen of C. paralleluf: from Japan, and there is less ineciuality between central and lateral series; 

 on breast, the scales have 8 to 5 short, strongly radiating seri(>s of sjjines, the sjiines shorter than those 

 on sides; scales of lateral line have 2 c(|ual series of spines, .separated by the tube, and liave fewer lateral 

 series, or none; on head, the spines are more numerous and much slenderer, and project nearly at right 

 angles to the surface, giving a characteristic hispid appearance to the entire top and side of head; they 

 are arranged with less regularity, but usually in strongly diverging or stellate series; the}- are much 

 more mnnerous than in parulldws, and have all the .series equal or nearly so; .5 series of .scales between 

 lateral line and dor.sal tins; the series running upward and backward fnjm lirst scale of lateral line 

 runs to base of dorsal spine; 4 series cro.ss the hack between dor.sal tins. 



Color, light l)rown above, whitish on lower side of snout and below jjectoral tin; mouth and gill 

 cavities and abdominal cavity lined with blue-black, this color faintly visible through opercle, gill- 

 membrane, and abdomen; first dorsal black at base, bright white ilistully; pectorals, second dorsal, 

 and anal dusky or whitish; ventrals dusky at base, then white. 



Taken at stations Xos. :«)!(), off the south coast of Oahu, .Sll to :«7 fathoms; ;;!IM, off the soutli 

 coast of (.)ahu, 2.S9 to 292 fathoms, and 4088, Pailolo Channel, 297 to SK) fathoms. 



Ciiturhijlirhus parallehimiWn'n & CmiiHT. I'riic. I'. S. Nat. Mils,, XIX, 1897, 121; not of GiiiitluT, 



Ccelorhynchus doryssus, new species. Plate 94. 



Type, .'M.'i mm, long, at staliou 4lll9, Kaiui Channel, depth 442 to 449 fatlioms; type No .")l(;itl 

 U. 8. Nat. Mus. 



Similar to C. (iralnnn, but with the snout more slender and more convex; the moulli mui-h larger, 

 the scales on head minutely spinous, those on body much ie.ss stronglv spinous, and the coloration 

 much lighter. 



Depth of body 2.2 in length of head; I), it, 7, last ray cleft to base; V, 7; 1". 17. 



Lateral contour of head forming a nearly straight line, the outlines of the long narrow snout scarce! v 

 at all convex, converging regularly from ba.se to tiii; upper profile of snout longitudinally concave, the 

 deepest point in the concavity being at origin of the second third of its length; width of snout opposite 

 front of orbit,s contained 1.4 in its length; at its middle, the width of the snout is half its i)reoral por- 

 tion; the snout ends in a definite short spine; vertical diameter of orbit contained 1,(> times in its longi- 

 tudinal diameter, which equals the convex interorbital width, and is contained twice in snout; upper 

 margin of orbit much less curved than the lower or lateral margins; the pore-like anterior nostril is 

 but a fourth the vertical length of the posterior, the 2 nostrils separated by a black membrane; ridges 



