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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



XYEICHTHYS Cuvier. 



1023. Xyrichthys niveilatus Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



INIISTIUS Gill. 



1024. Iniistius pavoninus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Hawaii. 



1025. Iniistius aneitensis (Giinther). Aneiteum. 



1026. Iniistius carneotlavus (Peters). Dana Island. 

 Xyrichthys carneoflava Peters, Berl. Mon. 1S76, 843. Dana I. 



We have not seen this species, and we do not find Dana Island on any map. There is a Dana 

 peak in Fiji, and part of the collection described (H. M. S. Gazelle) by Peters, came from Fiji. Most 

 of it was from the New Hebrides. 



1027. Iniistius nig-er (Steindachner). Hawaii. 



CYMOLUTES Giinther. 



1028. Cymolutes leclusei (Quoy & Gaimard). Hawaii. 



Family SCARICHTHYID^E. 



SCAMCHTHYS Bleeker. 



1029. Searichthys auritus (Kuhl & Van Hasselt). New Guinea (Macleay); Aneiteum (Giinther); 



Rarotonga (Seale); East Indies. 



1030. Searichthys caeruleopunctatus (Ruppell). New Guinea (Macleay); Rarotonga (Seale); 



East Indies. 

 Depth 3.50 in length; eye 3.75 in head, 1 in preorbital portion of head, and 1 in interorbital space; 

 dorsal x, 10; anal in, 9; scales of lateral line 24. 



Fig. 54. — Searichthys casrulcopuiictatus (Ruppell). 



Body oblong, compressed; lateral line interrupted, the tubules two-branched; teeth and nostrils 

 generic; profile of head slightly different from other species of Searichthys, being slightly concave 

 above the posterior margin of the eye, andthe snout with a slope slightly greater than 45°; caudal 

 peduncle 2.30 in head; the tubules on orbitals and preopercle quite prominent; base of anal fin 2.75 

 in base of dorsal; length of pectoral 1.40 in head; ventral 2. 



Color in spirits, dull coppery green without white dots; about five zones of darker greenish on the 

 body, the first above base of pectoral and over shoulder, the second below the seventh and eighth 



