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of the fin, excepting the first spine and last ray; remainder of anal 

 greenish blue; caudal blue. 



The type (B. P. B. Museum No. 3364) here described was 

 secured in the Honolulu market September 26, 1902, and meas- 

 ures 15 inches in length. (Fig. 4.) 



Callyodon lauia Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 2 in body; depth 2; eye 6 in head; interorbital 3.1; pre- 

 orbital 5; D. ix, 10; A. 11, 9; P. i, 6; V. 2; C. 1.5; scales 13/^-24-6. 



Dorsal and ventral outline alike; head pointed; jaws without 

 canines; 2% rows of scales on the cheeks, the third row of two 

 scales; caudal with the outer rays .60 longer than the central ones; 

 teeth white; eye one diameter below the upper profile of head; 

 nostrils very small; 4 scales on median line of back before the dor- 

 sal; tip of pedlorals even with tip of ventrals; origin of ventrals 

 under posterior base of pectoral; base of pectorals even with tip of 

 opercle; dorsal and anal similar in form; lateral line interrupted 

 under the end of soft dorsal, 16 scales being pierced before the 

 interruption . 



Color in formalin X alcohol. General color, dead horn brown; 

 the margin and base of both dorsal and anal slightly washed with 

 green; the central portion of the anal with a distinct median stripe 

 (.10 in. broad) of pale flesh color; caudal slightly olive-green at 

 the base and tip; the outer rays and median band (.25 in. broad) 

 pale flesh color; band margined on both edges with darker color. 



Color (based on plaster cast colored from life). General color 

 of body, deep rich red over the back, becoming orange-red and 

 Saturn on the head, passing to dull yellow on the ventral portion; 

 a narrow blue line extending through the eye; edge of upper and 

 lower lip green; the green lines of lips join at the angle of the 

 mouth and extend back on the cheek to a point below the posterior 

 margin of the eye; a narrow blue line at the base of the lower lip; 

 an irregular shaped blue patch on the lower chin; ventrals j'ellow, 

 edged and tipped with blue-green; outer half of dorsal abruptly 

 green; a narrow orange line of demarkation extending, with slight 

 interruptions, the length of the fin; below and joined to the orange 

 line the fin rays are orange-yellow, forming a series of greenish- 

 blue spots on the intervening membrane; pecfloral red, paler than 

 the body, slightly margined above and below with blue; anal with 



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