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Scales cover entire head and body; osseous scutes behind gill-opening; a tubercle on the anterior 
median portion of scales on the posterior median part of body and caudal peduncle, forming 7 or 8 
rows of tubercles. 
Color in life, body uniform light brown, tins same color, plain; rosy line beginning slightly behind 
and below angle of mouth, extending backward and slightly downward to vertical from eye, here 
joined by another of same color extending under chin. Another specimen showed membrane of first 
dorsal olivaceous, with a black blotch; scaled skin pushed back from the chin shows bright orange- 
yellow; outer margins of soft dorsal and anal light. 
A specimen from llilo showed body dirty olive-brown; tins dirty olive-brown, dorsal and anal 
somewhat paler along the edge; a golden half ring along lower jaw, a faint whitish half ring behind it, 
then another on chin still fainter, this prolonged backward a little at the angle, sometimes forming a 
distinct stripe back to breast. 
Color in alcohol, brown; dorsals, caudal and anal a slightly darker brown than body with tips of 
tins lighter; a black blotch on upper part of first membrane of spinous dorsal; pectoral dusky at base, 
tips pale dusky whitish; a yellowish white ring around lower jaw a short distance from the lip; a 
Fig. 181 . — Batistes capislratus Shaw; after Bleeker. 
straight yellowish white stripe from angle of mouth through upper edge of ring and toward lower base 
of pectoral, not. quite reaching the pectoral; this ring And stripe not very evident on some examples, 
and easily overlooked. Description based chiefly on No. 03139, from Honolulu. This species is com¬ 
mon about Honolulu, from which place we have 4 other specimens. They are 8.5 to 11.75 inches 
long. 
Lc I tali Sic bride Lac6p£dc, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1798, p. 335; without locality; on a drawing by Commcrson. 
lialwtes capislratus Shaw, Genl. Zool., V, 1804, 417 (after Lacepode; not Packyuathus capistratus, Jordan A Fvennann, Hull. 
17, which is a distinct species found along the Mexican coast, with smaller scales, -Batistes rerres Gilbert & 
Starks). 
Batistes mitis Bennett, Proe. Comm. Zool. Soc., I, 1831, 169, Mauritius; Gunther, Cat., VIII, 218, 1870. 
Batistes aiiiboiucnsis Gray, in Hardwicke, Ulus. Indian Zool., 1, 1832, Pisces, taf. VIII, lig. 2; Amboyna. 
Pachymithm triangularis Swainson, Classn. Fishes, II, 326, 1839, Vizagapatam; after Russell, pi. xx. 
Batistes hilipc Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Fishes. 127, 1843, East Indies. 
Batistes fremitus Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Fishes, 129, 1843, East Indies. 
Batistes schmittii Bleeker, Verh. But. Gen., XXIV, 37, 1852, Sumatra. 
Batistes ( Batistapus) fremitus, Bleeker, Atlas lehth., V, 114, pi. 223, lig. 2; 1865 (Java; Sumatra; Celebes; Amboyna; Obi). 
Pachynailms capislratus, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm,, XXII, 1902 (Sept 23, 1903), 483 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. fit. (Jan. 
19, 1904), 534 (Honolulu). 
