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Family BKAMII).^. 



12. Collybus drachme Snyder. 



A fine ca?t of this species is in the Bishop ilnseum. 



Family SERRANID^. 



IX Caprodon schleg^eli Cxiinther. (PI. .\n, lig. 1.) 



A single examjile fnjui Honolulu, measuring 17.2.5 inches. On comparing this witli a specimen 

 about 10 inches long from Misaki, Japan, we find no differences except that the Honolulu exanijile has 

 a broader maxillary and stronger teeth, characters probably due to age. 



Head 3.5 in length to base of caudal; depth 2.8; depth of caudal peduncle 2.9 in head; eye 4.1; 

 interorbital space 3.2; snout 3.4; maxillary 1.9; dorsal x, 21; anal iii, 8; scales 7-70-22. 



Dorsal outline evenly curved and considerably elevated; interorbital space convex, extending to 

 a point below posterior edge of pupil; width of maxillary contained 4.7 times in head, its free edge 

 rounded; cleft of mouth obliijue; lower jaw very strong, projecting beyond the upper, so that the 

 anterior teeth are exposed; premaxillaries freely protractile; upper jaw with bands of minute, strong 

 teeth, a group of large canines in front and a single row of smaller ones extending posteriorly; toothed 

 area narrow along sides of jaw, but abruptly l>roadening into large pads on either side anteriorly; 

 teeth of lower jaw in a narrow band posterior to edges of valve, in 2 large elevated pads on each side 

 anteriorly; a naked space between upper pads of teeth, the lower ones more closely apposed; broad 

 patches of fine teeth on tongue, vomer, and palatines; edge of preopercle feebly denticulate, almost 

 smooth; opercle with 2 broad, flat spines; gillrakers 23 + 6, the longest contained 2 times in longi- 

 tudinal diameter of eye, their tips blunt; lateral line continuous, evenly curved from upper edge of gill 

 opening to a point Ijelow posterior dorsal ray, where it rather abruptly turns backward, much as usual 

 in sciienoid fishes, extending along caudal peduncle a little above the middle; head and body, except 

 lips, throat, and edges of maxillary, completely covered with ctenoid scales; many scales on head and 

 upper parts of body, with a minute scale at base; small scales on bases of fins and extending far out 

 on the membranes, those at base of spinous dorsal forming a distinct sheath; dorsal spines strong, 

 the fourth to seventh longest, 2.8 in head; posterior rays longest, 2.1 in head; second and third anal 

 spines very heavy, their length 3.6 in head, the longest ray 2.2 in head; caudal truncate or slightly 

 concave, its length 1.5 in head; pectoral unsymmetrical, the upper rays shortened and the eighth to 

 thirteenth ravs markedly elongate, slightly longer than head, their tips liroad and flat, the free edge 

 of upper half of fin concave; ventral roumled, the length 1.6 in head. 



Color, in formalin: Yellowish with a slight tinge of olive; scattered scales on ujjper part.s orange 

 or i^inkish, in places clustered so as to form clouds of either tint ; a well-defined jiink bar 

 extending from eye to tip of snout; a similar bar pa-ssing over interorbital area; rays of caudal 

 I)ink ; membrane yellow ; dorsal and anal yellow, the scaled portion of former clouded with pink 

 and yellow, of the latter with pink ; ventral spine pink ; rays yellow; i)ectoral light. 



When fresh this specimen was fine crimson mixed with yellow; a crimson stripe before eye, 

 one between eyes; preorbital crimson; space before dorsal golden; caudal, anal, ventrals, and 

 pectorals bright yellow, with some crimson mixed in on the base of caudal, of anal, and on sides; 

 lower jaw crimson; crimson mottling on sides of back conspicuous. 



The genus Caprodon is distinginshed from Odonlaiithias and other Anthiimc with teeth on the 

 tongue by the unsymmetrical pectoral, the truncate caudal, the presence of a scaly dorsal sheath, 

 and by the many-rayed soft dorsal. The dorsal spines are none of them elevated, and the dentition 

 offers some peculiarities. 



Family LUTIAXID^. 



Genus ROOSEVELTIA Jordan & Evermann." 



Rmisevellia Jordan & Evermann, in Jordan & Scale, Fishes of Samoa. Bi}ll. Bureau Fisheries, vol. xxv, p. 2fi.n, 1907; No 

 description (type, Serranus brt;ihami Scale). 



This genus related to Apsiliis and Lntianus, from which it differs in having the top of the head 

 without the elevated crests characteristic of those genera. The top of the cranium is narrow and 



a Name occuis in Jordan & Scale, Fishes o£ Samoa, but no description hitherto published. 



