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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Scales large, 4 rows in front of origin of dorsal, cheek with 2 rows of scales, 6 in the upper and 4 
in the lower, anterior limb of operole without scales, a row of scales along margin of opercle; lateral 
line interrupted under base of last dorsal ray, reappearing 2 rows farther down, 18 pores in the first 
part and 8 in the other, the tubes somewhat branched. 
Dorsal spines soft and flexible, low, their length 3.5 in head; dorsal rays not elevated, the edge 
of the fin gently rounded; anal similar to soft dorsal, the rays shorter than snout; caudal lunate, outer 
rays somewhat produced, about 1.7 in head; ventrals short, about equaling snout and eye; pectoral 
longer, reaching past tips of ventrals, its length 1.4 in head. 
Color in life, gray mottled, streaked scored and barred with gray and brown; reddish-brown bar 
on lower jar; some reddish on belly, ventral fins, and front of anal; vent blue; pectoral dull yellowish, 
a black bar at its base; tip of caudal white; no bright colors; dark behind eye, a dark scale on opercle. 
Another specimen when fresh was dirty mottled brown, scales with coppery-red below; dorsal like 
back; caudal and anal more reddish, vaguely mottled; ventral coppery, and pectoral colorless, a dark 
bar across base. 
Color in spirits dark rusty brown mottled and blotched with darker and paler; dorsal and anal 
dark purplish brown. 
This species reaches a length of about 10 or 12 inches, and is not uncommon in the markets of 
Honolulu. 
We have examined 15 specimens, all from Honolulu, 7 collected by Dr. Jenkins, 1 by the 
Albatross in 1896, 1 by Dr. Wood, and 6 by us. The length varies from 4.25 to 9.5 inches. 
Scarus bnnmcus Jenkins, Bull. 1'. is. Fish. Comm., XIX, 1899 (Aug. 30, 1900), 59, lig. 10, Honolulu (type,No. 0139, Stanford 
Univ. Coll., O. P. Jenkins); ibid., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 470 (Honolulu). 
278. Callyodon dubius (Bennett). Plate 44." 
Head 3.1 in length; depth 3.1; eye 6 in head; snout 3; preorbital 5: interorbital 3.2; 1). ix, 10; 
A. m, 9; P. 14; scales 2-25-6. 
Body short, stout, not deep and not greatly compressed; head short and blunt; snout short; 
anterior profile evenly curved from tip of snout to origin of dorsal; ventral outline less convex; mouth 
small, horizontal, slightly below axis of body, lower jaw included; upper lip entirely covering upper 
dental plate, lower lip leaving a portion of lower dental plate exposed ; no posterior canine in either 
jaw; teeth white; eye small, lower edge of orbit in line with axis of body; interorbital space wide, 
broadly convex. 
Scales large, 4 rows on median line in front of dorsal; cheek with 2 rows, 8 scales in the upper and 
3 in the lower, subopercle with a single row; opercle with a single row of large scales; lateral line 
a Scarus dubius on plate. 
