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Bleeker" (" setate provectioribus radiissub inferismediislongioribiis"). 

 As far as concerns the length of the dorsal rays, A. furcatus is said to 

 have the third spine longest, thus differing from A. rutilans, but our 

 specimen has the third, fourth, and fifth subequal. Should these 

 nominal species prove distinct, our specimen would be A. rutilans, but 

 the differences shown at present do not indicate any real distinction. 



Fig. S.— Ceanium of apiiareus furcatus. als, alisphenoid; bas, basisphenoid; bo, basioccipital; 

 e, ethmoid; fo,EXOcciPiTAL; epo, epiotic; /r, frontal; opo, opisthotic; p, parietal; pas.PARASPHE- 

 noid; pf, prefrontal; pro, prootic; pto, pterotic; so, supraoccipital; spa, sphenotic; v, vomer. 



Apiiareus jiavivultus Jenkins, from Honolulu, apparently differs 

 from A. furcatus only in the presence of a bright yellow area on the 

 dorsal surface of the head, agreeing in other respects with it. Klun- 

 zinger, in describing the color of a specimen of A. rutilans from the 



o Atlas, p. 80. 



