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brands black, the rays white, other tins pale yellowish-white. In some examples the color is much 
more flushed with red, especially above; the red paler and more evanescent than in the other species; 
fins red, unspotted; the spinous dorsal edged w ith golden; upper lip golden; ventral membrane black, 
pectoral pale. 
There seems to be but little variation in this species; the younger individuals appear to be more 
brightly colored or with more evident wash of red than was shown in the type. We have 3 speei- 
Fjg. 93.— Pnacan/hiis alalaua Jordan A: Evermh.nn: from the type. 
mens, 6 to 8.25 inches long, from Honolulu; specimens were also secured by the . [ lha trow at Honolulu 
and at Lay sail Island. 
Priacanthus alalaua Jordan A Evermann, Bull. V. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 i Apr. II, 1903), 181, Honolulu; Snyder, op. 
eit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 527 (Honolulu; Laysan Island). 
l^S. Priacanthus cruentatus (Lacepede). ‘M unr<>," adult; “Alalaua ” young; “ Redfish,” Fig. 0-4. 
Head 3 in length; depth 2.6; eye 2.4 in head; snout .'5.4; maxillary 2; interorbital 3.4; I>. x, 13; 
A. ii, 14; scales 11-100-53, about 80 pores; gill rakers about 20 below angle. 
Body oblong, deep, compressed, dorsal and ventral outlines evenly and similarly curved; head 
about as long as deep, subconic, compressed; snout bluntly pointed; lower jaw very prominent, strong 
and projecting; mouth moderate, oblique; bands of small, villiform teeth on jaws, vomer and pala¬ 
tines; gillrakers rather long and slender, about 1.5 in pupil, about 20 below angle; tongue broad, 
rounded and free; maxillary extending to anterior edge of pupil, its greatest width slightly more than 
2 in eye; interorbital convex; eye large, its lower edge on a line with axis of body; fins moderate; 
origin of spinous dorsal over upper base of pectoral, the spines rather short, stout, and blunt, their 
anterior side rugose; last spine 1< ingest, 2.3 in head; soft dorsal rounded, longest ray 1.75 in head; caudal 
truncate; base of anal 2.75 in body, anterior edge of spines rugose; longest spine 2.6 in head, longest 
ray 1.9 in head; anterior edge of ventral spine rugose, its length 1.75 in head, longest ray slightly 
longer than spine, reaching to first anal spine; pectoral short, broad, longest ray 1.9 in head, not 
reaching as far posteriorly as the centrals; scales small, very rough, the exposed portion triangular, 
with a re-entrant angle on anterior side, the posterior edges strongly toothed; lateral line complete, 
rising abruptly for 4 pores from gill-opening, then turning sharply, following approximately thecurva- 
ture of the back, a little more distant under soft dorsal, turning in a broad angle at base of caudal 
peduncle, along the middle of which it follows to base of caudal; preorbital toothed or rugose on both 
