FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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291. Forcipiger longirostris (Broussonet). Plate XLVI. 
Head with beak 2.2, without beak 2.8; depth 2.2 with beak, 1.75 without beak; beak 1.6 in rest of 
head; eye 3.75; mouth 7; interorbital 4.75; I). XII, 25; A. III. 18; scales 12 78-30. 
Body very deep, compressed, back trenchant; head low, upper profile concave; snout nearly 
horizontal, jaws produced in a long pointed beak, mouth small, at extremity; teeth minute, in villiform 
bands in jaws; eye nearly in middle of length of head without beak; anterior nostril in short fleshy 
tube, posterior a short oblique slit before eye; fourth spine 1.5 in head without beak; anal spines 
graduated to last, which is longest, strong, 1.35; caudal small, slightly emarginate, its upper ray slightly 
produced; pectoral long, pointed, upper rays much longer than others; ventral* long, sharply pointed, 
spine 1.6; caudal peduncle small, compressed, its least depth 3.7; scales ctenoid; lateral line strongly 
arched, not concurrent with profile of back. Described from an example (No. 04537) 7 inches long 
from Honolulu. 
Color in life of a specimen (field No. 327) collected by Jordan & Kellogg at Apia in 11)02, brilliant 
yellow, deeper and orange-shaded behind, a black triangle on head, livid white below; centrals and 
pectorals yellow; caudal color-less: a large jet-black spot on anal. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown or whitish; head above, back in front, of spinous dorsal, interorbitai 
space, and opereles above, deep brown; snout, beak above, and band on each side to front of eve, 
blackish-brown; posterior margin of soft dorsal and anal with narrow grayish line; anal with a squar¬ 
ish black spot on distal part of last rays; last half of soft dorsal and anal with a narrow submarginal 
black line; caudal grayish, the pectoral orange; under parts of head and breast whitish. 
We have 9 specimens from Honolulu, (4 collected by Doctor Jenkins, 1 by the Albatross in 1896, 
and 4 by us), ranging in length from 5.2 to 6.75 inches. The Albatross also obtained specimens at 
Honolulu in 1902. 
This is the first species of fish ever described from the Hawaiian Islands. 
Chxtodon longirostris Broussonet. I)esc. Iehth.. I 23, plate 7. 1782, Society and Sandwich islands. (Coll. ('apt. Cook, i 
Chchnon longirostris, Cuvier, Regne Animal, Ed. I. 334, 1817; after Broussonet. 
Cbelmo longirostris, Gtinther, Cat., II, 38, I860 (Amboyna); Gunther, Fiscbe der Siidsee, 11.48, 1871 (Sandwich, Soriety. 
Paumotu, Friendly, and Kingsmill islands). 
Prognathodus longirostris, Bleeker. Verb. Kon. Ak. Wet., XVII, 1877, 33 (Ternatc; Amboyna; Ceram; Xussalaut; Bandar 
Bleeker, Atlas. IX. 23. taf. 36(1. tig. 5. 1879. 
Forcipiger flarissimus Jordan A McGregor, Kept. V. S. Fish Comm., XXIY. 1898, 279, Clarion Island (type. No. 5709, Stan¬ 
ford Univ. Mus.). 
Ciiclmon (Forcipiger) longi rost r is, Stein due liner, Renks. Ak. W iss. Wien, LXX, 19uu, 489 (Honolulu). 
Forcipiger longirostris, Fowler. I'roc. Ae. Nat. Sri. Phila. 1900, 512 i Sandwich Islands); Jenkins, Bull. F. S. Fish Comm.. 
XXII. 1902 (Sept. 23. 1903), 471 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. eit. (Jan. 19. 1904), 531 i Honolulu). 
Genus 174. CHiETODON lArtedi) Linnaeus. 
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Body short, deep, very strongly compressed, especially above and behind; head small, compressed, 
almost everywhere scaly; mouth very small, terminal, the jaws provided with long, slender, flexible, 
bristle-like teeth; vomer sometimes with teeth; preopercle entire or nearly so, without spine; dorsal 
tin single, continuous, not notched, the spinous part longer than the soft part, of 12 or 13 spines, the 
spines not graduated, some of the middle ones being longer than the last; last rays of soft dorsal usually 
rapidly shortened, some of them occasionally filamentous; caudal peduncle short, the caudal tin fan¬ 
shaped; anal similar to soft dorsal, with 3 strong spines; body covered with rather large ctenoid scales, 
somewhat irregular in their arrangement; lateral line curved, high, parallel with the back; gill-open¬ 
ings rather narrow, the membranes narrowly joined to the isthmus; branchiostegals 6. A very large 
genus of singular and beautiful fishes, abounding in the tropical seas, especially about volcanic rocks 
and coral reefs; body usually crossed by transverse black bars; all very active fishes, feeding on small 
animals. 
Clurtodon Artedi, Genera, 51. 1738 (numerous species, the first one. mentioned belonging to Pomacanthus; nonbinomial). 
Tetragonoptrus Klein, Historic Pisciiun, 37, 1741 (many species; stria/us, etc.; nonbinomial). 
Chsetodon Linnaeus, Systems! Naturae, 10th ed. 272, 1758 (includes all known Chielodontvkr). 
Cluctodon Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2d ed.. 189. 1829 ( striatum, capistratus; first restriction of the name to tin* present group). 
Rabdophorus Swainson, Class’n Fishes, II, 211, 1839 ( ephippium; scales on lower half of body in nearly horizontal series; 
scales about 45). 
Citharcedus Kaup, Wiegmanu's Arehiv, XXVI, part i, 141, 1860 (meyeri; scales on the lower half of body in horizontal 
series; scales small, aoout 50). 
