FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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Holocentrus/uscostriatux Seale, Occasional Papers Bishop Museum, I, No. 3, 69, 1901, Guam. 
lloloceiitrumtahiticum Kner, Novara Fische, III, 9, pi. 16, fig. 2. 1869, Tahiti. 
Flammi’o scmmara, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23,1903). 440 < Honolulu); Snyder, op. eit. (Jan. 19, 
1904), 523 (Honolulu; Laysan Island). 
Holocent.hi'us thomtonensix Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1904, 231, Thornton Island; young. 
113. Flammeo scythrops Jordan & Evermann. Plate VII and Fig. 57. 
Head (measured to end of flap) 2.75 in length; depth 3; eye 3 in head; snout 4; maxillary 2.1; 
mandible 1.8; interorbital 5; I>. xi, 13; A. iv, 9; scales 5-18-7, 5 rows on cheek; Br. 7. 
Body oblong, rather slender; dorsal outline gently and rather evenly curved from tip of snout to 
origin of soft dorsal, more nearly straight from tip of snout to nape; ventral outline less convex; head 
long; snout long and pointed; maxillary broad, with a strong supplemental bone whose lower edge 
forms a broad angle; end of maxillary slightly concave; lower jaw long, much projecting, tip promi¬ 
nent; mouth large, not greatly oblique; maxillary nearly reaching vertical at posterior line of pupil; 
lips broad, rounded, and soft; eye large, lower edge of pupil on axis of body; interorbital space with a 
broad, shallow groove between low ridges, 1 on each side; space between ridge and eye with short, 
curved ridges; nape on each side with a grouj> of 8 or 10 short, sharp ridges, diverging backward and 
Fig. 57 .—Flammeo seylhrops Jordan & Evermann; from the type. 
ending in short, sharp spines; posterior part of supraocular with a patch of short spines; suborital 
dentate on its lower edge; preorbital with 2 blunt prominences in front, a strong, recurved spine below, 
ridges and spines on its upper surface; opercular bones all strongly striate, the stria? ending in short 
spines; entire surface of interopercle striate; opercle with 2 strong spines, the lower the stronger, its 
length 1.6 in orbit; preopercle with a very strong spine at angle, its length nearly equaling diameter 
of orbit, its surface striate, and its base with a series of small spines; undersurface of dentary somewhat 
roughened; surface of articular bone much rougher; jaws each with a broad baud of villiform teeth, 
the outer series on upper jaw stronger; a narrow series on each palatine and a patch on vomer; scales 
moderate, the surfaces usually nearly smooth, the edges finely toothed; a series ot strongly striate 
scales across nape, and a strong, striated plate at shoulder; lateral line well developed, little arc bed, 
with about 45 pores; bases of soft dorsal and anal eacli with series of modified triangular scales; caudal 
with small scales on base and fine scales on membranes, extending well toward tips of outer rays; 
origin of spinous dorsal in advance of base of pectoral or over middle of upper opercular spine; dorsal 
spines in a broad, deep groove, moderately strong, middle one longest, 2.3 in head, first a little shorter 
than snout, tenth more than half eye; dorsal rays longer than spines, longest 2.2 in head; first anal 
spine very short, second about 3 times as long; third anal spine very long and strong, but little curved, 
