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(6) Bright dear red, the scales a little paler on centers; first dorsal bright red, the tips scarlet; 

 other vertical fins clear red with distinct pale edges and no blackish; no stripes along anterior edge; 

 ventral deep red with pale edge; jiectoral clear red; a blackish opercular axil bar. 



355. Myripristis hexagonus (Lacepede). Samoa; Mauritius. 

 Lutjanns /lemgonus LaciT'pOde. HLst. Nat. Poiss.. iv, 213, 1802, Mauritius. 



.Vi/vipristis Iiexari07!uf. Cuvier & Valenciennes. Hist. Xat. Poiss., ni, 171. Quoy & Gainiard, Vd.v. Astrolabe, 5, pi. 14. 

 Guntber, Cat., i, 27. 

 VVe refer to this species, with .some doubt, two specimens, large-scaled, with little black on the 

 opercle which ends in about five [joints, the one larger than the others. It is near Miiripi-isHs murdjan, 

 and still nearer to Myripristh berndii of Hawaii. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, light brick-red, the sides rather silvery, and no dark lines; a 

 darker red patch on opercle and axil; a silvery crescent on iris behind: fins all red, the spinous clorsal 

 [■aler at base, the others darker on lobes; anal and caudal with very inconspicuous pale edging. 



356. Myripristis berndti .Jordan & lOvermann. Hawaii. 



357. Myripristis chryseres .lordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



358. Myripristis synimetricus .Jordan <& Evermann. Hawaii. 



359. Myripristis arg-yromus .Tordaii & Evermann. Hawaii. 



360. Myripristis sanguineus .Jordan & Seale, new species. Malaii xda; Sef^aaer/a. Tahiti; Samoa. 

 Head 3.4 in body; depth 2.50; eye 2..50 in head; dorsal x-i, 14; anal iv, 13; scales 4-38-7. 



Body elongate, deep and compre.ssed; head blunt, its length less than its depth; snout short, its 

 length from the upi)ernostril equal to pupil; premasillary slightly protractile; maxillary reaching to a 



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Ian ti^ Seale. new species. Type. ' 



line below the ]iosterior edge of pupil, its distal end broad, 4.00 in head, its lower posterior margin 

 armed with blunt teeth; lower mandible 1.50 in head; bands of small teeth in jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines; a patch of enlarged blunt outer teeth on each side of upper and lower jaw; gillrakers 

 numerous, long and strong; interorbital space 3.85 in head; opercle striate and denticulate, with one 

 small spine at angle; scales all striate and toothed; a row of modified scales over the nuchal region; 

 origin of dorsal about even with lower base of ventrals and on line with the third scale of the lateral 

 line; dorsal spines slender, the first 2.75 in head, the third longest, 2 in head; anterior dorsal and anal 

 rays somewhat produced, their length 1.50 in head; third anal spine strongest, the fourth longest, 

 equal to orbit; caudal eraarginate; pectoral reaching to eleventh scale of the lateral line. 



