FISUKS OK HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 679 



The pylorir i-ri-a branch profusely from a few trunk-like stems, there being about 200 terniina! 

 twigs. The stomachs contain fragments of shrimp-like crustacea and numerous eyes aiid jaws of sfpiid. 

 The latter an- almost universally ]iresent, ami imlicate that S(iuid form a very important element in 

 their food. 



.Specimens were taken at the following stations: Xos. :>St;7, I'ailolo ('hannel, iS4 to 2!I0 fathoms; 

 3868, Pailolo Chamiel, 294 to 684 fathoms; ;!884, Pailolo Channel, 284 to 290 fathoms; HOOT, off the 

 south coast of Oahu, 304 to 31.') fathoms; 392.5, off the south coast of Oahu, 299 to 323 fathoms; 3979, 

 near Bird Island, 222 to 387 fathoms; 3988, near Kauai, 165 to 469 fathoms; 4085, off tin; north coiu«t 

 of Maui, 267 to 283 fathoms; 4087, Pailolo Channel, 306 to 308 fathoms; 4088, Pail<jlo (^hannel, 297 to 

 306 fathoms; 4089, Pailolo CJhannel, 297 to 304 fathoms; 4090, Pailolo Chamiel, .304 to 308 fathoms; 

 4096, Pailolo Channel, 272 to 286 fathoms; 4097, Pailolo Channel, 286 fathoms; 4117, off the northwest 

 coast of Oahu, 25:', to 2S2 fatlKJUis; 4130, near Kauai, 2S3 to 309 fathoms: 4134, near Kauai, 225 to 334 

 fathoms. 

 Mnlanirejilialiis Uiix liillicTi & Cramer, I'roo. U. S. Xiil. Mus., XIX. 1SH7, 4:H; iinl of I.owc. 



TrachoBurus sentipellis (iilliert A ( 'ramer. 



This is one of the rarer species of Ih.e group, hut 14 specimens having l)een obtained, distributed 

 among 10 dredge-hauls. 



The margins of the scales appear distinct owing to the absence of spines around the edge, but 

 the scales are firmly emlie<ldeil, without free margins, and overlap little if at all. The spines on 

 the anterior scales apiiear for the most jjart without detinite arrangement; there are sometimes, 

 however, one angulated vertical .series near anterior margin of scale, and a median longitudinal series; 

 lateral spines frequently (ill up the interspace between these, forming tints a lozenge-shajiecl [latch. 

 Posteriorly where the spines are long and apjires.sed they give an evenly villous ajiiiearance to siiU-s 

 of tail. 



Head with contours everywhere rounded, without ridges or sharp angles; mouth barely over]>assed 

 laterally by the w'ide flat suborbitals, its width nearly eijual to its length; narrow villiform bands of 

 teeth in each jaw, the outer series in the upper jaw little if at all enlarged; gill-membranes widelv 

 joineil at throat and wholly free from isthmus; six or .«even scales between lateral line and ba.se of 

 anterior portion of second dorsal; length of base of first dorsal contained from 1 to 1.75 times in 

 interspace between dorsals; all but the innermost ventral rays reach beyond origin of anal fin; distance 

 from axil of ventrals to front of anal contained 2.25 to 2.75 times in distance from axiLof ventrals to 

 throat. Some young specimens arexiniformly black. There are variations in the contour of the snout, 

 which is sharper and narrower in some specimens than in others. The scales vary in length o( spines 

 and in distinctness of outline. 



The species was taken at the following stations: Nos. 3997, vicinity of Kauai, 418 to 429 fathoms; 



4007, vicinity of Kauai, 50S to 557 fathoms; 4018, vicinity of Kauai, 724 to 804 fathoms; 4028, vicinity 



_of Kauai, 444 to 47S fathoms; 4030, vicinity of Kauai, 423 to 438 fathoms; 4106, Kaiwi Channel, 3,35 to 



351) fathoms; 4107, Kaiwi Channel, 350 to 355 fathoms; 4109, Kaiwi Channel, 442 to 449 fathoms; 



4112, Kaiwi Channel, 433 to 447 fathoms; 4113, Kaiwi Channel, 395 to 433 fathoms. 



Tmrliniiiniis snilipillis (iiWirrl & Cralni-r, I'roc. [T. S. Nat. Mils., XIX. 1S97, 42!). [il. .tl.v. fig. 1. 



K;imily PLEUR()NECT1D.€. 

 Poecilopsetta hawaiiensis, new species, Plate 95. 



Type, a male, 126 mm. long, from station 3858, Pailolo ('h;uinel lictween .Molokai atid !\laui, depth 

 128 to 138 fathoms; type. No. 51638, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Head 24 hundredths in total length without caudal (27 in fetnale <'otype); length of snout, from 

 lower eye 3, from upper eye 6 (3.5 and 7 in female) ; iiitcrorbitfd width 2 ( 1.5 in female ) ; diarfieler of 

 upper eye 7.5; length of ntaxillary 7; depth of body .54; depth of caudal peduncle 13; longest dorsal 

 ray 11; longe.st caudal ray 25; length of right pectoral 17: left )iectoral 11; choril of arch of lateral Mm- 

 22. D. 65; A. 54; P. 10; lateral line 85. 



Body dextral, deeply elliptical, very thin, transparent at bases of dor.sal and anal tins; upper and 

 lower profiles evenly aftd e(|ually arched; head small; inlerorbital space narrow and scaled; eyes largt^ 



