Thj'cc N'ezv Hawaiian Fishes. 27 



The type (B. P. B. Museum No. 3363) here described was 

 secured in Honolulu market, February 8, 1903, and measures 

 22 inches. (Fig. 3.) 



Pseudoscanis vitriolinus, new species. 



Head 2 in body; depth 2; e3'e 8 in head; snout 2.1; preorbi- 

 tal 4; interorbital 2.6; D. ix, 7; A. 11, 8; P. 1.33; V. 2; C. 2.1; 

 scales 1^2 -25-6. 



Teeth deep blue-green; caudal slightly rounded; body robust; 

 cheeks with two rows of five and six scales respedlively; lower 

 limb of opercle with six scales; two very small pointed canines at 

 the angle of the mouth; about half of the upper and lower dental 

 plate covered by the lips; front profile blunt. 



Color in formalin X alcohol. General color, dirty grayish 

 white; all the fins more or less greenish; a pale flesh-colored line 

 along the middle of the dorsal and at the base of the anal; upper 

 and lower lip, side of head, and radiating stripes from the eye 

 greenish . 



Color (based on plaster cast colored from life) . Dorsal anterior 

 half of the body, greenish, passing to greenish yellow, becoming 

 yellow back of the tip of the pectoral, this color extending to the 

 caudal peduncle; caudal peduncle green, with pinkish scale mark- 

 ings; abdomen and sides of body pinkish, varied with green and 

 blue scale markings; two parallel blue lines the diameter of the 

 eye in width, extending from a little posterior of the base of the 

 pectoral to even with the anterior base of anal; a green line along 

 the belly from base of ventrals to anal; top of head bluish green; 

 edge of upper and lower lips pink; base of upper and lower lip 

 joined to an ill-defined patch reaching to and extending below the 

 eye, green; a narrow band along the snout to the eye pale pink; 

 pink and green stripes radiating from the eye; iris yellow and red; 

 dorsal blue, with a dull salmon-red stripe along the basal third, 

 beginning at the base of the first dorsal spine and extending back 

 the length of fin; on the posterior half of dorsal the salmon-colored 

 stripe extends up the fin rays a short distance; on the last five rays 

 these proje(5lions join to inclose irregular green membrane spots; 

 pectoral bluish green; basally marked with pink; several irregular 

 pink spots scattered over the fin; ventral greenish blue; anal with 

 a wavy stripe of pink at the base, which extends the whole length 



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