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EpineplielusfuscoguUalus, Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phi la. 1900, 502 (Honolulu); not of Forskiil. 
Epinephclus qucrmis Settle, Occasional Papers, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Vol. I, No. 1, 1901, with plate, Honolulu 
(Type, No. 481, B. P. B. M., Coll. A. Seale); Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XX11. 1902(Sept. 23, 1903), 149 (Hono¬ 
lulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 527 (Honolulu). 
Genus 127. ODONTANTHIAS Bleeker. 
Body strongly compressed; scales rather large, ciliated, smooth; lateral line complete, the tubes 
straight and extending along nearly the entire scale; mouth rather large, protractile; maxillary 
exposed; jaws with villiform teeth and curved canines; large, elongate patches of teeth on vomer, 
palatines, and tongue; head scaly, including the maxillary; preoperele serrated, without antrorse teeth 
on the lower border; operele with 3 spines; gill-membranes separate; 7 branchiostegals; pseudo- 
branchije present; gill rakers very long and slender; a single dorsal fin with x. 13 rays, the spinous 
portion a little longer than the soft; anal short, with iii, 7 rays; caudal emarginate; pectoral obtuse- 
pointed, subsvmmetrical, rays 17; ventrals below pectorals, close together, each with a strong spine. 
Odontant hius Bleeker, Nederl. Tijdsclir. Dierk., IV, 1S72, 235 (Anthios horhon ius ). 
173. Odontanthias fuscipinnis (Jenkins). Plate XV ami fig. 91. 
Depth 2.0 in length; head 2.S; I>. x, 17; A. m, 7; scales, 4-47-15; P. 1.31 in head; V. about 
equal to head; eye 4 in head; interorbital slightly wider than eye; maxillary reaching to below middle 
of eye; narrowest part of preorbital a little less than 2 in eye; branchiostegals 7; gill rakers on lower 
arm of first branchial arch 34. 
Fig. 91 .— Odontanthias fuscipinnis (Jenkins). Type of Anikins fuscipinnis Jenkins. 
Mouth very oblique, lower jaw somewhat projecting, just, entering profile; upper profile of head 
reentrant before the nostrils, thence to nape steep and almost straight, in one specimen rather promi¬ 
nently convex before t lie eyes; strongly bulging at nape in front of dorsal spines; profile of hack straight 
from front of first dorsal to anterior rays of soft dorsal, from here descending to caudal peduncle, the 
upper edge of which is on a level with tip of snout; ventral profile less convex and less angular than 
upper; operele with 2 Hat spines, the upper the larger; lower part of edge of operele serrated; angle 
F.G.B. 1903—15 
