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ently omitted by the artist in the drawing); a series ot -osseous plates behind gill-opening; a slight 
evidence of rows of small spines on median rows of scales on posterior part of body. Young exam¬ 
ples have spines on side of caudal peduncle. 
Color in life, uniformly dark brown with tinge of olive; membranes of spinous dorsal olive; soft 
dorsal and anal white, with a narrow black border along anterior and distal margins; distal portion of 
caudal peduncle white, fin light red, the upper and lower margins each with a narrow black line; pec¬ 
toral rays bright yellow; faint violet at angles of mouth; iris yellow. 
A specimen from Hilo showed in life, body blackish olive with obsolete traces of rows of yellow¬ 
ish spots below, which fade at death; first dorsal and pectoral dull olive; caudal broadly w hite at base, 
the rest of fin bright flesh color, its upper and lower edge narrowly blackish; second dorsal and anal 
pure translucent white with broad black edge. 
Color in alcohol, dark brown; spinous dorsal dark brown; dorsal and anal white, edged with 
black; caudal white, upper and lower edges black; pectoral white. 
The above description based chiefly upon No. 03140, a specimen 9.5 inches long, from Honolulu. 
lialistes rhl.ua Solander in Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Fishes, 128, pi. 59, figs. 9 and 10, 1842, Otahiti; Gunther, Cal.. V III. 
210,1870; Streets, Hull. IT. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 57, 1877 (Honolulu); Steindachner, Denks, Ak. Wiss. Wien, LXX, 516, 
1900 (Honolulu 1: Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 482 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. eit. (Jan. 
19, 1904), 534 (Honolulu). 
Melielithys vidua, Blecker, Atlas Ielrth., V, 109, pi. 217, fig. 2, 1865 (Nova-Selma; Halmahera: Amboyna; Tahiti; Borabora). 
334. Balistes bursa Laeepede. “ Humuhunui lei” Fig. 180. 
Head 3 in length; depth 3.1; eye 5 in head; snout 1.35; interorbital 3.3; It in, 37 (27-39); A. 24 
(24-27) ; scales 50, 29 from vent to first dorsal spine; length of first dorsal 1.75 in head, equal to outer 
caudal rays; longest dorsal ray equal to longest anal or pectoral, 2.5 in head. 
Fig. 180. — Ila/ivtcsburm Laeepede: after Bleeker. 
Body oblong, compressed; head short, deep, compressed; eye small, high, posterior; snout thick, 
blunt; mouth small, terminal; lips thick; jaws equal; sharp, uneven, incisor-like teeth, those of 
upper jaw more distinctly notched, in the 2 anterior ones the inner notch is produced to a point, 
giving the teeth a canine appearance; origin of spinous dorsal slightly posterior to base of pectoral; 
