312 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



XYRICHTHYS Cuvier. 



1023. Xyrichthys niveilatus J(jnlan & Everniann. Hawaii. 



INIISTIUS Gill. 



1024. Iniistius pavoninus (Cuvier A A'alendeimes). Hawaii. 



1025. Iniistius aneitensis (Giinther). Aneiteum. 



1026. Iniistius carneoliavus (Peter.s). Dana Island. 

 Xi/ricMhys carneoflara Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 843, Dana I. 



We have not seen this species, and we do not find Dana Island on any ma]). There is a Dana 

 I>eak in Fiji, and part of the collection described (H. M. S. Gazelle) by Peters, came from Fiji. Mn^^t 

 of it was from the New Hebrides. 



1027. Iniistius niger (Steindachner). Hawaii. 



CYMOLUTES Giinther. 



1028. Cymolutes leclusei (Quoy c*c Gaimard). Hawaii. 



Family SC.4RICHTHVII).-E. 

 SCABICHTHYS Bleeker. 



1029. Scarichtliys auritus (Kuhl & Van Hasselt). New Guinea (^lacleay); Aneiteum (Giinther); 



Harotonfra (Scale): East Indies. 



1030. Scarichthys cseruleopunctatus (Riippell). New fJuinea (Macleay); Rarotonga (Seale); 



Depth 3. .50 in length; eye 3.7.5 in head, 1 in preorbital jiortion of head, and 1 in interorbital space; 

 dorsal x, 10; anal in, 9; scales of lateral line 24. 



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Fig. .54. — Scarichthys rwrtUfnpunctulun (Ruppell). 



Body oblong, compressed; lateral line interrupted, the tubules two-branched; teeth and nostrils 

 generic; profile of head slightly different from other species of Scarichthys, being slightly concave 

 above the posterior margin of the eye, and the snout with a slope slightly greater than 45°; caudal 

 peduncle 2.30 in head; the tubules on orbitals and preopercle cjuite prominent ; base of anal fin 2. 7.5 

 in base of dorsal; length of pectoral 1.40 in head; ventral 2. 



Color in spiritts, dull coppery green without white dots; about five zones of darker greenish on the 

 l)ody, the first above base of pectoral and over shoulder, the second below the seventh and eighth 



