NO. 1792. JAPANESE LUTIANID^— JORDAN AND THOMPSON. 463 



scaly. Cheek with six series of scales ; dorsal and anal fins scaleless. 

 Caudal covered with scales except near posterior margin. Scales 

 finely denticulated. 



This description differs from our Hawaiian specimens in the shorter, 

 wider head, and especially in the larger number of scales below the 

 lateral line. It is, however, 

 in all probabilit}^ the same 

 fish. If, however, it is 

 shown that these distinctions 

 are permanent, the Hawaiian 

 fish, described below, will 

 stand as Pristipomoides mi- 

 crodon. 



Description. — Of a speci- 

 men 360 mm. in length, 

 from Honolulu, Hawaii, co- 

 type of Bower sia ulaula. 



Head 3^ in body; depth 3^ 

 in length; eyes 3^ in head; 

 snout 3^; maxillary 3; man- 

 dible 2\; interorbital 3^; 

 preorbital 9; D. X, 11; A. 

 Ill, 8; scales 8-70-16 (to 

 middle line of belly 10 + ); 

 gill rakers 20. 



Dorsal outline of body a 

 low, gentle curve, ventral 

 similar. Head bluntly conic ; 

 interorbital space broad and 

 only slightly convex; preor- 

 bitals very narrow, ending 

 before anterior margin of 

 pupil; jaws equal; maxillary 

 ending under anterior margin 

 of eye, slipping for most of 

 its length under preorbitals. 

 Preopercular margin serrate, 

 more coarsely at margin, its 

 angle slightly produced; op- 

 ercle ending in two obscure flat spines. Teeth in villiform bands on 

 jaws, vomer, palatines, and tongue, those in outer series of jaws 

 scarcely enlarged. Gill rakers 2^ in eye, rather stout. 



Dorsal fin continuous; spines flexible, fourth longest, 2^ in head; 

 first half length of fourth; last 3^ in head; dorsal rays little higher 

 than spines, last half again as long as remainder; anal spines short, 



