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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Acanthunis lineolaUu s Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., X. 207, 1835, Pacific. 
fAcronanis ariinitrus, Gunther, Cat.. Ill, 340. lsfii (Ascension Island): probably not of Quoy A (iaimard. 
Truth is artjcnUus, .Iordan A Fowler. I’roc. V. S. Nat. Mils., XXV, 1903, 553 (Cniesawa and Misaki. Japan); Snyder, Bull. 
C. S. Fish. Comm.. XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 533 (Honolulu). 
Tcuthis dussitmin'i, Jenkins, Bull. C. S. Fish Comm.. XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903 1 , 177 (Honolulu). 
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319. Hepatus guttatus (Bloch A: Schneider). Fig. 170. 
Head 3.0 in length; depth 1.4; eye 4.5 in head; snout 1.2; interorbital 2.25; 1>. vm, 27; A. hi, 24. 
Body deep, compressed; back elevated, high at spinous dorsal; abdomen and lower part of trunk 
expanded below, lowest point at origin of anal; head deep, rather small, compressed, upper profile 
oblique from tip of snout to origin of dorsal; profile of snout nearly straight, jaws large, blunt, 
slightly produced; mouth low, inferior; mandible inferior, lips rather broad and thin; teeth broad, 
Fig. 170 . — Hepatus piittatm (Bloch A Schneider); after Gunther. 
compressed, forming sharp cutting edge, each one with 7 erenulations, the 3 median large, their edges 
level; nostrils large, close together, anterior larger, with small, fleshy flap; interorbital space broad, 
convex, not much elevated; dorsal spines graduated to posterior, stiff, last 1.5 in head; anterior 
dorsal rays longest, others gradually decreasing to last, first 1.5, last 4; fifth anal ray 6.5 in head, 
last 4.75; caudal broad, margin straight when expanded; caudal peduncle deep, compressed, depth 
2 in head; pectoral pointed, 3 in body; ventral 4.25; caudal spine small, short, depressible in a 
groove, 1.35 in eye; scales small, ctenoid, deeply imbricated on sides, scales on vertical fins very 
small; lateral line arched, nearly concurrent with profile of back; anus directly behind bases of cen¬ 
trals, well before anal spines. 
Color in alcohol, uniform brown on greater portion, chest and belly somewhat pale; a pale brown 
band from before spinous dorsal down behind eye, another narrow pale band from base of fourth 
dorsal spine to belly, and last indistinct from fourth dorsal rav down to third anal ray; basal portion 
