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I'ainil) rSKNID.-l-: 



H. Arioinina evermanni .r<ir<l;ni t^ Snyilor, new :?pec-ies. ( Kig. 1. text.) 



A second species of this peculiar p>nns is represented by one badly preserved specimen. It differs 

 from Arhimiiiii liiridit in having a smaller head, sliorter snout, smaller eyes, .shorter gillrakers, and 

 larger scales. The head is apparently naked and the caudal is forked, characters which both 

 species may, however, possess in conaiicm. The anal rays are evidently preceded by two spines in 

 .1. eret'iininni. 



Head 3.4 in length measureil to ba.se of caudal; depth 4; depth of caudal )iedum'le .5..T in head; 

 eye 3.7; snout 3.3; interorbital space 3.3; dursal m-i, 1.5; anal ii. In; pectoral 2.">; scales in lateral^ 

 series about 3S. 



Snout blunter and slightly more rounde.l than that of A. Inriihi; caudal peduncle short anil 

 cylindrical; interorbital space very convex; eyes with thin adipose lids; maxillary not freely 

 protractile, rounded posteriorly, about equal in length to diameter of eye, almost entirely concealed 

 beneath a broad, pendant, preorbital Hap; jaws eijual, each with a single row of minute teeth; vomer 

 and palatines without teeth; t<;ingue large and smooth; gillrakers 7+19, short, slender, and pointed; 

 psendo-branc-hia- present; nostrils near tij) of snout. 



-Arit'iniiia rvi-niiiiTnii .lunljui A* Sindrr, )h;\n' spi-ci 



Head naked; scales of body large, cycloid, very small on caudal peduncle, extending forward on 

 occipital part of head almost to a point above ]]osterior margin of eye. 



Origin of dorsal above jjosterior edge of ba-se of pectoral; the spines slender, the longest i, third f>r 

 fourth) contained 2.2 times in length of head; spinous and soft dorsals apparently connected by mem- 

 brane; base of anal long, nearly equal to length of head; fii-st 2 rays small and spine-like; last ray of 

 dorsal and anal pencillated, nearly disconnected like the iinlets of OJigojdiles, these fins extending an 

 equal distance posteriorly; j)ectoral 2 in liead; ventrals pointed, 2.3 in head; caudal forked, the 

 lobes pointed, 1.4 in head. 



Color, probal.ily dusky; opercle with :i hir.L'e blackish patch; lining of gill-chambers black; mouth 

 liglit. 



Type, no. .57783 U. S. National Museum, measuring S inches in length; from the market at 

 Honolulu. 



Xamed for Dr. Barton Warren Kvermann, assistant in charge. Division of Scientific Inquiry, IT. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries, in recognition of his work on Hawaiian fishes. 



This genus does not belong to the Ajxir/onichlJiyiiln. It seems rather to be an ally of C'ubiceps, in 

 the grouj) usually calleil Xoineuhi-; but as the generic name Nomeus ought properly to give way to 

 i;ohloiii(irH.% we may call the group I'senhhr. It differs from Slromateid:r chiefly in the separation of 

 the ilorsal fins. 



We may note here that the Hawaiian siiecies of (ienn<i, described on page 174 of the Hawaiian 

 report, is Geniio iniKruplerus (Schlegel i, not Germo ijemiu. The figure is of the latter sjiecies. 



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