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e^t al)M\e cimierof mouth; uuixillaiy I'xti'iiiliiij; tea point lielow untcrinr im1;.'i> (rf juiial: l<i\v(r jaw- 

 projecting slightly beyond upper; jaws cmth with a row nf enlarged canines, behind which i>- a band 

 of villiform teeth, among which are a few slightly enlarge<l nnes; narrow hands of minute teeth on 

 vomer and palatines; tongue smooth; gillrakers :> HO, long, slender, and pointed; dorsal inserted 

 di recti V above tip of opercular spine, the spines slender, stiff and ])uugent, the tinst s{)ine not quite 

 half tlie height of second; longest (third to fifth) spine L'.T in head; no notch between sjiinous and soft 

 dorsal, rays about equal to spines in length; anal not quite so liigh as dorsal, tlie spines heavier and 

 shorter; first spine slightly more than one-third length of the third, the latter :i..') in head; ventral 

 pointed, extending slightly beyond vent; dorsal, anal, and ventral without scales; pectoral falciform, 

 extending to a point aljove origin of anal, its base with minute scales; caudal deeply forked, the rays 

 with scales (the rays being broken, their length can not be deterndned). Scales finely ctenciiil: a row 

 of enlarged soft scales extending from upper e<lgc . .f iipercle to nape; a row of similar scales below eye-; 

 cheeks and opercles with scales; maxillary, preorbital, snout, and inlerorhital naked; preopercle 

 smooth, the edge serrated; opercle with a flat, [lointed spine at the upper angle; lateral line curved 

 much like the contour of back. Xo distinctive color-markings in an alcoholic s])ecimen, except 

 numerous obscure mottlings and minute siiots of a deeper color, which may have been greenish on a 

 red background, and a subdued dark dash on opercle. The appearance of the specimen, extended 

 stomach, etc., indicates that it came fmm cleep water. 



Type, no. 577S4 T'. S. Xational Musemn. about 11 inches long, collected l)y .h)rdan and F-ver- 

 mann at Ib.nohilu, liiid, and liv some oversight n'>t clistiuguished at the time from lioiiKiTrllin hrii/lKDiii. 



1.5. KrOOseveltiabrighami I Scale). I'tHi/.i: Kuliku/i. 



Scrranii.-! tiiif/liaiiii Senle. Oceiisioniil Piipers Bishop Museiiui. vol. l. ii.j. 4. I'JUl, 7, Honolulu. 



Apsiliis hriiihami. Jcnliins, Bull. V. P. Fish Comm.. vi.l. xxn, 1U02 (Sept. 2;!, ]90;i), 452; Hiineliilu. ShviIlt, iljid. i Jim. J9, 



19041, .5J7: ironoluln. .lonliin .t KvcrniMtiii. Bull. f. S. Fish Coram., vol. xxlll, 1903 (.Inly 29. 19051. 2:53. 1>1. XVI; 



Honolulu: Kailiiu. 



This species, having the top of the iiead without the elevated crests characteristic of I.iiliaiinx and 

 A/isiliix, should not have been referred to Sfmnins Tior to Aj^iilux. 



\i>. Chsetopterus dubius (hinther. 



i ApTion microdoii Steiudm-hner. i 

 (Bnwrrsin ulnit'a .Jordan and ICvt-rmaun. ) 



A Specimen 1.5 inches long, from the market :it llnnfilidu, seems to differ in no was- from a . Japanese 

 exanq)le collected at Fukaura. 



Head :!.4 in length; depth 3.0; snout ."..S; interorbit;il A.-',: preorbital 10..5; maxillary L'.H; dorsal 

 X, 11; anal m, S; scales in lateral series 70; between hiteral line and anal 14. Basihyal with au oval 

 |)atch of villiform teeth on its posterior half. 



This specimen corresponds evidently tii Il'inrivlK iilunln ol .Jordan and Kvermann; and the num- 

 lier of s&des in the lateral line in Aprimi iiiicmildn, as described l>y Steindachner, shows that hi.s species 

 is <'. ilii/iiux rather than l>o>rerxla rioh'siriix. This species is known as opnhipahi in the markets, not 

 being distinguished from the e(|ually common P.oirersUi rlolexceux by the fishermen. Vlanla, very red, 

 is the name of EleVis emrus and Etelix marslii. 



17. Bowersia violescens Jordan & Fvermann. 



(.4j)S(7«.s iiiirroilmi .lordiui & Evcrraiuin, yoiiii.ic: not .I/h /«» iiiicniiluii Sleinilachucr.) 



The small specimens de.scribed by .Jordan aii<l Fvermann as Aiirimi uiici-adon are the young of 

 Ilowei-sia liolesrciix. We finil no teeth on the tongue in any (jf these and none in a cotype of Jloirersia 

 i-iulexiYiis. The genus BouvrKia is therefore to be separated from ('h.-iiopterus by the absence of these 

 teeth, not by their presence, as originally st;ited. The teeth are present in ('li,Tloj)tfni.'i diibhts. The 

 absence of lingual teeth, therefore, the smalN-r nioutb, and espe<-ially the larger scales, separate 

 Boiivrxla violt^xrenx from <'ii:iioj}lenij< di(liii(s. 



IS. Etelis evurus Jordan it Kvermann. 



This species, with its congener, Eldis marslii, is common in the winter markets, and Ijoth ;u-e 

 known as idaiila (very red i. The two species differ widely from each other and a study of the skele- 

 tons will probably place them in different genera. 



