1(52 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
4.2 in head, third 2.9, and last 4.6; anterior dorsal rays elevated, third longest, 1.5 in head, last 6; 
third anal spine enlarged, 1.8, fourth 2.2; soft anal similar to soft dorsal, first ray 1.7, last 5.25; caudal 
rather small, forked; pectoral pointed, 1.4; ventral sharp pointed, 1.4; spine slender, 2.5; caudal 
peduncle compressed, its length 1.8, its depth 3.2. 
Color in life, very deep red, golden shades along rows of scales below, alternating with brighter 
shades of vivid violet; some faint dark spots on anterior part of body, in axil, and one on base of 
pectoral, these small, round spots larger than nostril; tins deep red without edge; a row of whitish 
spots on membrane of first dorsal; third anal spine white; ventral spine clear violet. 
Another example (No. 03471) was brilliant red in life, with violet shades along the rows of scales; 
fins scarlet or crimson, nearly plain; no dark marks anywhere. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown or brownish white, side with about 10 broad longitudinal bands. 
This very handsome species resembles Jf. Here Lesson — II. piecUopterut Bleeker, from the South 
Seas, differing principally in the fewer scales and single series of pale spots on the spinous dorsal. 
Fid. 59 .—HnlocentruR en/thrams Gunther; after Gunther. 
Described from an example (No. 04962) taken at. Honolulu. We have 6 specimens 7.6 to 13.5 
inches long, from Honolulu and Kailua. The species was obtained at Honolulu, also by the Albatross, 
and we have one specimen from Samoa. 
Holocentrumerythnenm Gunther, Cat., I, .'12, 1859, Sea of San Cristoval, Solomon Islands; Gunther, Fische tier Sudsee, IV, 
99, p!. 63, fig. B, 1875 (Solomon, New Hebrides, K ingsmilI Society, Panmotn, and Hawaiian islands); Smith .V 
Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 127 (Johnston Island). 
Holo'crntrus erlithrseus, Jenkins, Bull. r. s. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept, 23, 1903), 141 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit, (Jan. 
19, 1904), 523 (Honolulu). 
118. Holocentrus punctatissimus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Fig. 60. 
Head 3.25 in length; depth 3; eye 3.4 in head; snout 4; maxillary 2.7; interorbital 3.6; D. xr, 14; 
A. iv, 9; P. i, 14; V. i., 7; scales 4-47-7. 
Body elongate, compressed, greatest depth about tip of ventral spine, upper and lower profiles 
nearly evenly convex; head elongate, compressed, depth 1.25 in its length, width 2; eye rather small, 
well anterior, and impinging a little on upper profile; shout blunt, oblique; mouth rather small, 
oblique; maxillary reaching posteriorly behind front margin of pupil, its distal expanded extremity 
2.6 in eye; supplemental maxillary large; lips thick, fleshy; teeth in jaws, and on vomer and palatines 
minute, in broad bands; tongue elongate, pointed, free in front; nostrils close together, posterior one 
a small cavity; lower margin of preorbital serrate; suborbital rim narrow, also finely serrate; bones of 
head all more or less finely serrate; margin of preopercle below with a large dagger-shaped spine 
reaching well beyond gill-opening; margin of opercle above with two nearly equal, rathershort spines; 
