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along, lower part .of side to lower base of caudal fin; a similar line backward from eye under lateral 
line, ceasing above pectoral, another from forehead across upper edge of eye, crossing upward to nape, 
thence along base of dorsal to caudal peduncle; side of head washed with bluish, the under pari with 
bluish and Clnnese white; breast pale bluish with brighter bluish spots; tins all pale or dusky white. 
Above description based upon a specimen (No. 05718) 4.6 inches long, obtained at Honolulu; 
life color taken from specimen (No. 03031) 4.25 inches long, obtained at Honolulu, June 7. Our 
collection contains one other specimen (No. 03231) 4.1 inches long, obtained at the same time and 
place. In addition to these, we have examined 21 specimens collected by Dr. Jenkins, and others 
obtained by the Albatross at Honolulu, where the fish appears to be common. The length varies from 
4 to 5 inches. 
Original type locality unknown. The species has been recorded from Maui and Honolulu. 
Labrits albovillatus Kolreuter, Nov. Comm. Detrop., IX, 458; Bonnaterre, Ichthyol.. 10S, pi. 98, tig. 399, 1788. locality 
unknown. 
.Itilis built ulii . tpioy A I Illimani, Voyage de II railie, Zool.. 307, pi. .">(fig. 1, 1834. Maui, Hawaiian Islands. 
Stelhojuliisalboxiltata, Gunther, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., VIII, lstil, 388; Gunther, F'ische dersiidsee, VII. 38., Taf. t xu, Fig. B. 
1881 (Hawaiian Islands); Steindachner, I>enks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, LXX, 1900, 504 (Honolulu); Fowler, Proe. Ac. Nat. 
Sci. Phila. 1900, 508 (Hawaiian Islands); Jenkins. Bull. U. s. Fish Comm.. XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 459 (Hono 
lulu): Snyder, op. fit. (Jan. 19, 1904) 528 (Honolulu). 
Genus 151. HALICHCERES Ruppell. 
Body oblong, compressed, not elevated, covered with large scales, 25 to 30 in the lateral line, 
which is not interrupted, hut bent abruptly behind; scales on breast a little smaller; head scaleless, 
compressed conic; preopercle entire; teeth large, 2 to 4 strong canines in front of each jaw, a posterior 
canine tooth; lin rays usually D. i.v, 11; A. m, 11; tins low; caudal lunate, truncate or rounded; 
ventrals inserted under axil of pectoral; gillrakers short and feeble; gill-membranes slightly joint d 
to the narrow isthmus; no scaly sheath at base of dorsal; vertebral 10 + 15 = 25. Species 
numerous, of rather small size and gay coloration, the typical species (with canines j) all belonging 
to the East Indies and Polynesia, those with canines § (Ichtliycallus) being all American. 
Halichivrcs Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische, 10, 17 1837 (bmaculatus) : not Halich&ms Nilsson, 1820, u genus of seals. 
IrlU/iyctoUus Swoinson, Nat. Hist, Class. Fishes, II, 232, 1839 (I limidiatus ). 
Chpsrttjulis Gill, Prov. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1802,142 (substitute for Ilaliclueres, regarded as preoccupied). 
Ptirajniis Bleeker, Enum. Poiss. de Japan, in Verb. Kon. Ak. Wet.. XVIII, 1879, 5 (if itiecilopierus ); no definition, 
Indio Jordan & Everraanti, Cheek List Am. Fishes, 412, 1890 (nuliatiis ). 
a. Side brick-red, with about 6 series of green spots; belly pale blue . .. lao, p. 285 
aa Each scale with a dark red crescent spot, convex anteriorly, bordered posteriorly with blue. ornalissiintts p. 3 s,, 
224. Halichceres lao Jenkins. “Lao.” Fig. 122. 
Head 3.4 in length; depth 3.4; eye 5.5 in head; snout 3; preorbital 5; interorbital 4.25; D. ix, 12; 
A. m, 12; scales 4-28-8. 
Body short, slender and greatly compressed; dorsal outline rather straight from tip of snout to 
occiput, thence gently arched in a long curve to base of caudal; ventral outline a longer lower curve; 
head small, much longer than deep; snout long, sharply conic, jaws each with a pair of strong canine 
teeth anteriorly, and a row of close-set shorter teeth on the sides; eye small, lower edge of orbit on 
axis of body; interorbital convex, the nape trenchant; caudal peduncle moderately deep, 2 in head; 
preorbital oblique; preopercle and opercle smooth, the latter ending in a long pointed flap; scales 
large, thin, their edges soft, surface delicately striate; scales on breast and nape much reduced; head 
entirely naked; lateral line complete, following curvature of back for 20 scales, then descending 3 rows 
and continuing to base of caudal; spinous dorsal low, its spines weak, about equal to snout, dorsal rays 
somewhat longer and about equal to distance from tip of snout, to posterior edge of pupil; anal similar 
to soft dorsal; caudal slightly rounded, the outer rays slightly produced; ventrals long, the outer rays 
produced, reaching vent, 1.6 in head; pectoral small, slender, as long as ventrals. 
Color of a fresh example, side brick-red, with about 6 series of green spots, the upper 3 brightest; 
belly pale blue; the upper blue stripe continued anteriorly, running across humeral region and above 
eye to just above nostril, a broad green stripe across operclesand below eye to mouth, this narrowly 
bordered by blue, and on anterior part of opercle, broadening and running downward, somewhat 
