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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
363. Ranzania makua Jenkins. “Apahu;” “Makua.” Fig. 194. 
D. 17; A. 18; C. 19; P. 3; depth 2.12 in length; head 2.8; eye 6 in head, 2.33 in snout. 
Body much compressed, the ventral margin a sharp, evenly curved keel; eye much above axis of 
body, a little nearer snout than base of pectoral; teeth forming a turtle-like beak completely hidden 
by projecting folds of skin, which form a truncated opening to the mouth; gill-opening just in front 
of upper base of pectoral, covered by a 2-lobed valve; body covered by an armor of small plates, more 
or less hexagonal and concealed; pectoral about 1.5 in head, above axis of body; height of dorsal 
about equal to head; anal slightly lower; dorsal and anal each separated from the caudal by a notch. 
Color, bright silvery on sides, upper parts dark; sides with brighter silvery bands, the first 3 with 
distinct black borders, the next 4 with numerous black spots, the black margins appearing only on 
lower parts. 
Differing from Ranzania Irunmta chiefly in the smaller eye, placed well above the mouth and 
above the axis of the body, in the high position of the pectoral fin, in the higher dorsal and anal, and 
in the coloration. Originally known from one specimen, 20 inches long, taken at the mouth of Pearl 
Harbor, Oahu, by Mr. Iliel Kapu, and sent to Stanford University by Mr. Charles B. Wilson. A 
second example about 4 inches long was secured by us at Honolulu in the summer of 1901. 
Ranzania makua Jenkins, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 2d series. V, October 31, 1895, 780, 784, with colored plate, Pearl Harbor, near 
Honolulu; Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer,, 1755, 1898; Jenkins, Bull. t T . >, Fish Comm., XXII. 
1902 (Sept. 23,1903), 486 (Honolulu: the type). 
