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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Platophrys mancus ( Iliims.-iuiift ). 



Ill uililition t(i the siiecimens of this ooinmon species which were seen ahnost daily in tlie Hono- 

 hilu iiKirUrt, (jthers were ilredged at depths of less than 75 fathoms. At station .SSr)!*, very yount; 

 specimens were taken which were entirely transparent, ;ind were very prolialjly captiii-cd at or iie;ir 

 the snrlacc. YomiK individuals were often secured in the surface tow-nets. 



Specimens were taken at the following stations: Nos. 3859, Tailnlo Channel, i:i.s tn 140 fathoms; 

 .•W75, between INIaui and ].anai, 34 to 65 fathoms; 3940, vicinity of Laysan, 59 to 70 fathoms; 4i)7(), off 

 the north coast of JIaui, 45 to 52 fathoms. 



Platophrys chlorospilus, new species. Fig. 207. 



Type, a male, 1.S3 mm. long, from station 41174, off ninth coast of Maui, <leptli 7S t.i S5 fathoms; 

 type. No. 51047, r. S. Nat. Mus. 



Length of head 20.5 hundredths of total length without caudal; longest diameterof orliit S.5; least 

 interorliital width (i; length of snont, from lower eye 0, from upper eye 14; length of maxillary 10; 

 depth of head across middle of upper eye 30; greatest de|ith of Iiody 45; depth of caudal peihmcle 10; 

 length of left pectoral L'l; choid i.if arch of lateral line Hi. 1>. lOS; A. 89; P. 13; scali's in lateral line 90. 



r.odv rather slender, eyes proportionately large and widely separated; profile slightly angnlated 

 ill front of upper eye; mouth oliliiiue; maxillary extending to below front of pupil; trctli in single 

 series in both jaws; lateral preniaxillary teeth small and close-set; anterior premaxillary and man- 



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Fli:. •H\l.-'l'lil1ni>lirrii< I'hlnrnsiiillis (:ilt)CIt. lU'W SJiccies. Type. 



dibiilartei4h larger and more widely sjiaced; no teeth on vomer or palatines; iiiterorbital space a wide 

 shallow groi've, its width less than the diameter of the large cyv; no spines or protuberances about eyes 

 or on snout; gill-i-akers slender, toothless, 9 in number, the longest 0.3 diameter of pupil, wholly 

 wanting on vertical limVi of arch; slit behind last gill short, 0.3 diameter of eye. 



Anterior dorsal rays free for half their length, not produced or filamentous, increasing regularly in 

 length from the first; left ventral inserted on the pre-anal ridge, membrane of last ray ileflcctcd lo h-ft 

 siile of riilge; vertical fins all low; caudal double truncate, or doubly emarginate, median ray [irodiic-cd; 

 left pectoral twice as long as right, second and third rays prolonged somewhat beyond general contour 

 of fin. In /'. iiiiiiinis ni the same size and sex, the left jiectoral would lie greatly produced. Caudal 

 rays brancheil, other rays simple. 



Scales strongly ctenoid on left side, cycloid on right side; lateral line present on left side only, its 

 anterior arili llat-topped; chord of arcli i-oiitaiia'd 1,_' times in straight jiortion; interorliital sjiace and 

 mandible scalcil; a feu scaleson exposed jiart of maxillary; firniinal half of snout naked; single series 

 of scales on dorsal and anal tin-ravs and double series on caudal lavs. 



