Scale: Nczv Hazvaiian Fishes. 7 



635. Serranus brighami* sp. nov. Fig. 3. 



Head, with opercular flap, 3 into length to base of caudal; 

 depth 3; D. X 11; A. in 8; V. 1-5; P. 15. Scales 8-70-17. Lateral 

 line continuous. Top of head, the snout and chin naked. Eye 

 3.75 into head ; interorbital 4 ; snout 3.10. Body oblong and com- 

 pressed. Maxillary without a supplemental bone; the entire max- 

 illary, except the distal end, hidden in the preorbital. Preopercle 

 serrated. Opercle with two flat spines at posterior edge. Teeth: 

 Patches of small teeth in jaws, vomer and palatines ; jaws with an 

 enlarged outer row^ of canines ; no teeth on tongue. Gill-rakers 

 rather long and flat, 12 on lower limb, the longest equal to diameter 

 of pupil. Preorbital wide. Fins : Caudal deeply forked, the lobes 

 equal ; middle ray of fin about equal to diameter of eye. The 

 fourth dorsal spine the longest, 2.75 into head ; the last rays of the 

 soft dorsal and anal slightly prolonged, 2 into head ; base of anal 

 3 into base of dorsal. Pe(5torals long and somewhat falcate, equal 

 to length of head. Ventrals situated slightly posterior of line with 

 pedtorals, long, reaching to anus. 



Color in life : Ground color pinkish white ; three distinct wide 

 yellow bands, as wide as interspaces, extending obliquely down 

 and back on sides of the body ; the first from nauchal region to 

 a little posterior of axis of pecftorals ; the second, from third to 

 sixth dorsal spines, ending above and anterior of vent on a line 

 with lower base of pecftorals ; the third, from eighth dorsal spine to 

 third dorsal ray, ending above and on a line with fifth-eighth anal 

 rays; posterior of this last band, above the lateral line, there is a 

 wash of yellowish reaching to base of caudal. Dorsal fin cadmium 

 yellow ; caudal yellow, the upper lobe with tint of pink ; pedlorals 

 pinkish. Ventrals and anal white ; iris whitish, the pupil deep 

 blue. Sides of head and jaws wnth a few deeper splotches of pink- 

 ish. In spirits the yellow bands fade so that the interspaces show 

 more distincftly than the bands. The fish also becomes a deeper 

 pinkish, the fins becoming whitish. 



One specimen. lycngth 15.50 inches. Honolulu, Ocftober, 1901. 

 Hab. Hawaiian Islands. Type No. 625, B. P. B. M. 



* Named in honor of my esteemed friend \Vm. T. Brighara, Diredlor of the Bernice 

 Pauahi Bishop Museum. 



