KISIIKS OF HAWAIIAN ISF-ANDS. 



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I-'irst (lur«il ray inscitcil cm luiddif ni simut, Mlij;htly tn ri^lit nl ii(l;j:i>, bonli'rcil liy a wiilf cini- 

 spicuous iiieiiihranou." flap, tlie distal liortioti of which, on lilind side, is intensely black, honleied 

 narrowly with white; dorsal rays increasinsr retiiilarly in Icnuth with wide free tips t" the twelfth, 

 tho.'ie from the twelfth to the eighteenth greatly produee<l and Mlamentous, all l>iit a narrow liasal por- 

 tion free from membrane; first -I anal rays similarlv jiroihu'ed and (ilamentons, the first mneli shorter 

 than the others; a jet-black spot margined with white on mendirane of first 3 anal rays; can<lal lin 

 lanceolate; no free caudal pednncle; right i>ectoral fin 3 left; ventral tins synnnetrical. opimsiti' and 

 of eipial length, a very strong concealeil spine between them. 



Scales very minnte, those on left side linn, closely imbricated, strongly ciliated; those on right 

 side more loosely imbricated, with entire edaes; ravs of dorsal and anal fins 011 the left side, and the 



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Fl<;. '^fS.— Txiii'ips' ll't rftiliila (;ilhcrl. new species. Typo. 



left ventral rays each accompanied by a row of ctenoid .scales; caudal rays with 2 snch series; lilamen- 

 tous ray.s scaled on basal portions only; ])ectoral fins and right ventral scaleless; snont and month 

 parts miked; anterior arch of lateral line rather low and ilat-t<jpi)ed. 



Color light olive-brown, finely mottled and specked with darker brown; a series of brown rings 

 along dor.sal and ventral ontlines, with other smaller rings scattered ))etvveen the.se and lateral line; 

 two ]iairs of rings along straight portion of lateral line with their margins freipiently prodnced across 

 the line, the posterior pair more conspicuous than the anterior; an elongate dark spot ticar base of 

 cauilal; in males a dark sti'eak in front of lower margin of upper eye; blind side faintly mottleil with 

 dusky, posteriorly. 



Keicales differ from males in having the orbital n-gion somewhat less sjiinous, in the larger eye, and 

 in the sliovter filamentous rays of dorsal and anal. In females the tenth to thirteenth or fourteenth 

 dorsal lays and the first to third or fourth anal rays are produced; in males the tenth or twelfth to 



