io6 Direclor' s Annual Report. 



heavy white line; second, a narrow blue line; third, the light white 

 line; fourth, a narrow blue line; and fifth, the heavy white line 

 again. This is the uniform pattern of the fish; however, the blue 

 lines may be more or less irregular, and between the two posterior 

 heavy white lines they are incomplete, the last one being repre- 

 rented merely by three blue dots. There is a white cross band on 

 the forehead with a narrow blue line above it. A white spot be- 

 tween nostrils. A bluish line running vertically down the cheeks 

 makes an acute angle in front of eye and extends down the snout. 

 A short blue line from gape to branchio.stegals. Reticulations of 

 bluish white on posterior part of dorsal and anal. Caudal dusky, 

 with two white bands at base, and two irregular white bands on cau- 

 dal peduncle. Length 4.50 inches. Specimens taken agree perfecftly 

 with Garrett's figure, "Fisches d. Sudsee," p. 41. Hab. Seas of 

 India to Malay Archipelago and beyond. Red Sea, east coast of 

 Africa, Marianas. My specimens were secured among the coral 

 reefs of Guam, May 25, 1900. 



194. Holacanthus bishopi'^ sp. nov. 



Head 3.66 ; depth 1.66 ; eye 2.50, i into snout ; interorbital 3 

 into head; D. xiv 19; A. iii 21; V. i 5. Scales minute and feel 

 like velvet to the hand. Body elevated, .strongly compressed; the 

 snout not produced. Hind margin of preopercle finely serrated, 

 the spine equal in length to diameter of eye. Branchiostegals 6. 

 Pseudobranchise present, teeth setiform. Fins: Dorsal spines rather 

 short, the first spine 3.66 into head, the second about as long again. 

 The pectorals are the same length as head, their ba.ses 2.50 into head 

 and equal to preopercular spine; the first ray of pedloral prolonged 

 into a small filament, length 3 into total length of fish. The hind 

 margin of dorsal, caudal and anal rounded. Color in spirits: Black 

 with about 8 concentric bluish white lines, alternately rather wide 

 and very narrow as follows: First, as wide as pupil, forms a circle 

 around snout and anterior edge of preopercle; second, encircles 

 nape, passes just in front of preopercle spine, extends obliquely 

 back on thorax and out on the first ray of ventrals ; third, a 

 narrow stripe forms a circle just in front of dorsal spine, crosses 

 base of pectorals and around the belly just back of the ventrals; 

 fourth, a wnde line forms reticulations on soft dorsal, cur\'es forward 

 to almost a line with pecftorals and then encircles belly at the vent; 

 fifth, a narrow line extends from soft dorsal, forms a half -circle and 

 ends in reticulations on posterior of anal fin; sixth, a wide line ex- 

 tends as a circle from posterior edge of dorsal to posterior edge of 

 anal; seventh, a narrow incomplete half -circle ; eighth, a wide 

 line forms a complete circle just in front of caudal peduncle. In 

 addition to these markings there is a narrow blue line extending 

 perpendicularly down from front of eye to edge of opercle; another 



5 Named in honor of Charles R. Bishop, foimder of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. 



