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lines from eye to snout, each of these extending slightly upon pale rusty, and each with 5 or 6 narrow 
brassy lines parallel with margin, edge of each blackish; last rays of dorsal and anal more brassy; a con¬ 
spicuous jet-black .sj)Ot on caudal peduncle at base of last dorsal ray; caudal dark, blackest on outer 
part of middle rays; pectoral pale lemon; ventrals dusky, blacker toward tips; iris brownish, white on 
posterior part. Another example (No. 03474) was dull olive-gray, unmarked, save a faint whitish 
band across nape and back part of head; fins plain dusky gray. 
Color in alcohol, very dark chocolate brown; side with about 40 narrow irregular or incomplete 
series of indistinct dark slaty longitudinal lines; cheek with similarly colored lines running obliquely 
downward; tins, except pectoral, all more or less blackish or dusky; dorsal with about 5 blackish 
longitudinal bands; anal with several similar indistinct blackish bands; base and axils of last dorsal 
and anal rays blackish; pectoral brown. 
This common species is well distinguished from Hepatus rfussumieri and other streaked species by 
tlie black ink-like spot in the axil of tin* dorsal and anal tins. It has several times been recorded 
under the erroneous name of AimUhurus UneoltUus, but the species originally called by that name must 
be something else, probably 11. dussumieri. Numerous specimens were obtained by us at Honolulu, 
where it was also secured by Doctor Jenkins and Doctor Wood. Other examples were collected by 
the Albutrofts at Laysan Island. Our specimens are 3 to 9.5 inches long. 
Acanthiirus lincvlalus. (iiinther, Fische der Siidsee. 1. 111!, tuf. lxxiii, lig. A. 1875 (Society Islands): Steindachner, Dunks. 
Ak. VViss. Wien, LXX, 1900, 193 (Honolulu); not of Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Tcuthis atriinadalusu Jordan X Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, for 1902 (Apr. 11, 1903), 198. Honolulu (type, No. 
50073, F. S, N. M.; coll. Jordan & Evermann); Jenkins, Bull. F. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 478 
(Honolulu). 
Ten this a tram ni ta tn s, Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXIT, 1952 (Jan. 19, 1904), 533 (Laysan Island). 
321. Hepatus sandvicensis (Streets). “Manmi Fig. 172. 
Head 3.75 in length; depth 1.9; snout 1.4 in head; eye 3.5; interorbital 3; D. ix, 25; A. iii, 22. 
Body deep, compressed, ovoid, the lower profile from mandible to anus very weakly convex ; head 
Fig. 172 .—Hepatus sandvicensis (Streets). 
deep, the upper profile concave from tip of snout to interorbital space, then straight to origin of dorsal; 
jaws low, produced, the lower inferior; mouth small; teeth compressed, crenulate; nostrils close 
a Misprint for atramentafras, from atramentum, ink. 
