FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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31. Congrellus bowersi Jenkins. Fig. 16. 
Head 1.6 in trunk; head and trunk a little shorter than tail; width of head 2.5 in its length; 
snout 4.5 in head; eye 4.25; interorbital space 6; pectoral "3.4; pores about 147 in lateral line. 
Body rather short, compressed, the tail tapering posteriorly; head elongate, rounded, conically 
pointed in front; snout a trifle less than eye, rounded, elongate, with its tip bluntly pointed; 
eyes very large, high in front of head; mouth large, the snout protruding slightly beyond tip of 
mandible, corner of mouth nearly under middle of eye; lips rather thick, fleshy lobes on either side 
of each jaw; teeth all tine and rather numerous in jaws and on vomer; anterior nostrils in short tubes 
at tip of snout, the posterior on sides of snout nearer front of eye than tip of snout; interorbital space 
flattened and with a median ridge; head without swollen appearance; gill-openings about two-thirds 
eye; peritoneum silvery, with small gray dots; skin smooth; head with a number of mucous pores, a 
large one just behind the anterior nostril; origin of dorsal at about the last sixth of the space between 
posterior margin of eye and origin of pectoral; caudal small, or the marginal fin around the end of tail 
very narrow; pectoral rather short and rounded. 
Color in alcohol, Iwown, slightly darker above and somewhat clouded on head, where 2 dark 
brown crossbars are formed; fins all pale brown; edges of dorsal, caudal, and anal narrowly edged 
with black, especially distinct posteriorly. Color in life (No. 03419), body translucent, colorless; 
snout dusky; a dusky band through eye and over head; a dusky transverse band across nape and half 
way down on side; a dusky saddle in front of dorsal; a narrow dark margin on dorsal and anal. 
This description is based primarily upon a specimen (No. 04923) 14.5 inches long, obtained at 
Hilo. One other specimen (No. 04922) 11 inches long was taken at Hilo; four examples ( Nos. 03419, 
04919, 04920, and 04921), each about 11 inches long, at Honolulu. The collection obtained by Dr. 
Jenkins at Honolulu contains eight examples, ranging in length from 8 to 11 inches. 
Congrellus bowersi Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 422, fig. I, Honolulu; Snyder, op. eit. (Jan. 
19, 1904), 515 (Honolulu). 
32. Congrellus aequoreus (Gilbert A Cramer). Fig. 17. 
Head 6.5 to 6.8; depth 15 to IS; head and trunk much shorter than tail, about 1.6 in latter; 
pectoral rays 14 or 15. 
Body slender, compressed; head as deep as wide, tapering forward to a flat snout; snout 3.5 to 
3.8 in head, slightly more than twice as long as eye, and projecting two-thirds the diameter of eye 
beyond tip of lower jaw; eyes somewhat elliptical, their upper margins near dorsal profile; angle of 
mouth reaching middle of orbit; lips thin; maxillary teeth close-set in a broad villi form band, the 
