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NOTE ON ETELINUS, NEW GENUS. 



Type — Etelis marshi Jenkins. 



In the species called Etelis marshi Jenkins, from Hawaii, the caudal 

 is simply forked, the lobes being relatively short. This species should 

 be the type of a distinct genus, which may be called Etelinus Jordan, 

 defined by the less elongate form and the simply lunate caudal fin. 



Etelinus marshi bears a superficial resemblance to the genus Doder- 

 leinia, formerly called Eteliscus. Etelinus, like Etelis, lacks the sup- 

 plemental maxillary and opercular spines. These are present in 

 Doderleinia. 



12. ETELIS CARBUNCULUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 ONBUTSU (Male Mutsu.) 



Etelis carbunculus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 

 127, pi. 18 (Seychelles). 



Etelis carbunculus Jordan and Snyder, Check List, Ann. Zool. Jap., vol. 3, 1901, 

 p. 77 (after Serranus oculatus Temminck and Schlegel). 



Serranus oculatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 

 266, pi. 32 (Martinique). — Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poisa- 

 ons, 1843, p. 5 (Nagasaki). 



Hesperanthias oculatus Lowe, Fishes Madeira, 1843, p. 14 (Madeira). 



Centropristis oculatus Muller and Troschel in Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 

 1848, p. 666 (Barbados). 



Macrops oculatus Dumeril, Ichth. Analytique, 1856, p. 279. 



Anthias oculatus GiInther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 92. 



Etelis oculatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 447. — Steindachner 

 and Doderlein, Beitr. Fische Japans, I, Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 47, 1883, p, 

 15 (Tokyo).— Jordan and Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, p. 468 (Mar- 

 tinique, Madeira, Barbados, Jamaica, Cuba). — Jordan and Fesler, Sparoid 

 Fishes, p. 457. — Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, 

 vol. 2, 1898, p. 1282, pi. 201, fig. 524. 



Etelis evurus Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, p. 184, 

 for 1902 (1903) (Hilo).— Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 vol. 23, p. 242, for 1903 (July, 1905) (Hilo and Honolulu).— Snyder, Bull. 

 U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, p. 527, for 1902 (1904) (Honolulu).— Jordan and 

 Snyder, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 26, p. 213, for 1906 (1907) (Hawaii). 



Habitat. — West Indies to Madeira, and East Indies, north to Japan 

 and Hawaii. 



Description. — Of two specimens from Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, 

 cotypes of Etelis evurus, about 340 mm. in total length, and one from 

 Havana, Cuba (typical of Etelis oculatus) between which no differences 

 are discernible. 



Head 3| in body length; depth 3f ; eye 3|- in head; maxillary 2^; 

 snout 3|; suborbital width 13; interorbital (bone) 4; D. X, 11; A. 

 HI, 8; scales in longitudinal series 53, in transverse 5 or 6/12, on 

 cheeks in 7 rows. Gill-rakers 8 or 9 + 15 or 16. 



Body elongate, fusiform, but tapering more posteriorly; somewhat 

 compressed, its width If in depth. Head conical; interorbital space 

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