FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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Our specimens have a very slender form, and a narrow slightly upturned snout, which protrudes 
beyond the tip of the mandible, though to-a less extent than is indicated in the figure of the type; 
maxillary reaching to or beyond middle of cheek; the narrow tip of the mandible soft and flexible, 
fitting behind the premaxillary teeth; teeth slender and showing the usual arrangement; an inner longer 
series and an outer shorter series of teeth in the jaws and on the palatines, both depressible; tongue 
and basibranchials covered with large teeth, which, in the closed mouth, occupy the medial depression 
between the palatines; eye surrounded by a narrow but heavy adipose ring, of very irregular contour, 
containing a small sharp notch above the middle of the posterior side, and an abrupt notch and angle 
postero-inferiorly ; the superior margin deeply incised; position and proportions of fins as represented in 
the figure of the type cited below. 
Color, lower half of side bright silvery, marked with alternately wide and narrow cross-bars. In 
some specimens still narrower bars divide the intervals between the primary and secondary bars. 
Dorsal fin translucent, the rays occasionally with dusky cross-bars. 
Taken at the following stations: Nos. 4079, off the north coast of Maui, 143 to 178 fathoms; 4101, 
Pailolo Channel, 122 to 143 fathoms; 4102, Pailolo Channel, 122 to 132 fathoms; 4104, Pailolo Channel, 
123 to 141 fathoms. 
Sauries kaianus Gunther, Shore Fishes, Challenger, 1880, 50, pi. xxm, fig. C. Ki Islands; in 129 fathoms. 
Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard). 
Tsken at station 4068, off the north coast of Maui, 14 to 18 fathoms. 
Trachinocephalus myops (Forster) . 
Taken at the following stations: Nos. 3850, off the south coast of Molokai, 43 to 66 fathoms; 4067, 
off the north coast of Maui, 10 to 14 fathoms. 
Family AULOPIDiE. 
Chlorophthalmus proridens Gilbert & Cramer. 
In the light of our abundant material the following notes are added to the original account of the 
species: 
Distance from tip of snout to tip of ventrals 2.4 in length of head and body; base of anal 4.3 to 4.5 
in head. Pectorals extending well behind vent, 1.2 in head; ventrals shorter than in the type, 1.7 to 
1.8 in head; anal with 9 rays, the last ray cleft to base; body as wide as deep immediately in front of 
pectoral fin, much narrower than deep at all points posterior to this; head wider than deep immediately 
behind eyes. Maxillary gradually widened behind (not “abruptly expanded”); with a narrow rod- 
shaped supernumerary bone, movably attached by membrane, along the distal two-thirds of its posterior 
edge. Sides of mandible with a narrow band (about 2 series) of small teeth, those of the inner series 
larger than the others; the symphyseal continuation of this band consists of a single series of somewhat 
larger teeth, directed almost horizontally backward; in front of this series, occupying the upper surface 
of the protruding symphyseal knob, are 2 series of teeth, laterally in contact, separated mesially by a 
wide space; the anterior series consisting of strong conical teeth, directed horizontally forward, the 
inner series much smaller, directed posteriorly; premaxillary witn a narrow band of teeth occupying its 
n tire length; head of vomer with a projecting lobe on each side, each lobe with a single series of 5 or g 
strong teeth; palatines with a single series occupying the anterior three-fifths of their length, the series 
abruptly widening at anterior end to form a knob; a few minute teeth scattered over surface of tongue 
can be made out with difficulty; vertical limb of anterior branchial arch adnate to gill-cover by a fold 
of membrane, as in Macrourus. 
Scales strongly ctenoid on back and sides (not cycloid, as described); cycloid on breast, belly, and 
under side of tail; opercles completely scaled; a few of the scales on cheeks and opercles with short 
spinous points. 
Color grayish silvery, the upper parts coarsely black-punctate; a narrow blackish vertebral streak ; 
margins of snout and of mandible blackish; a dusky patch on cheeks, below eye; interorbitals and 
occiput blackish, the opercles black; anterior 2 or 3 dorsal rays black on basal third; a blackish ba r 
