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(6) Bright clear red, the scales a little paler on centers; first dorsal bright red, the tips scarlet; 

 other vertical fins clear red with distinct pale edges and no blackish; no stripes along anterior edge; 

 ventral deep red with pale edge; pectoral clear red; a blackish opercular axil bar. 



355. Myripristis hexag-onus (Lacepede). Samoa; Mauritius. 



Lutjanus liexagonus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 213, 1802, Mauritius. 



Myripristis hexagonus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 171. Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, 5, pi. 14. 

 Giinther, Cat., I", 27. 

 We refer to this species, with some doubt, two specimens, large-scaled, with little black on the 

 opercle which ends in about five points, the one larger than the others. It is near Myripristis murdjqn, 

 and still nearer to Myripristis berndti of Hawaii. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, light brick-red, the sides rather silvery, and no dark lines; a 

 darker red patch on opercle and axil; a silvery crescent on iris behind; fins all red, the spinous dorsal 

 paler at base, the others darker on lobes; anal and caudal with very inconspicuous pale edging. 



356. Myripristis berndti Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



357. Myripristis ehryseres Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



358. Myripristis symmetricus Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



359. Myripristis argyromus Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



360. Myripristis sanguineus Jordan & Seale, new species. Malauula; Segasega. Tahiti; Samoa. 

 Head 3.4 in body; depth 2.50; eye 2.50 in head; dorsal x-i, 14; anal iv, IS; scales 4-38-7. 



Bodv elongate, deep and compressed; head blunt, its length less than its depth; snout short, its 

 length from the upper nostril equal to pupil; premaxillary slightly protractile; maxillary reaching to a 



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Fig. 24. — Myripristis sanguineus Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



line below the posterior edge of pupil, its distal end broad, 4.50 in head, its lower posterior margin 

 armed with blunt teeth; lower mandible 1.50 in head; bands of small teeth in jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines; a patch of enlarged blunt outer teeth on each side of upper and lower jaw; gillrakers 

 numerous, long and strong; interorbital space 3.85 in head; opercle striate and denticulate, with one 

 small spine at angle; scales all striate and toothed; a row of modified scales over the nuchal region; 

 origin of dorsal about even with lower base of ventrals and on line with the third scale of the lateral 

 line; dorsal spines slender, the first 2.75 in head, the third longest, 2 in head; anterior dorsal and anal 

 rays somewhat produced, their length 1.50 in head; third anal spine strongest, the fourth longest, 

 equal to orbit; caudal emarginate; pectoral reaching to eleventh scale of the lateral line. 



