FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
677 
The largest specimen obtained is 200 mm. long. 
Taken at the following stations: Nos. 3824, off the south coast of Molokai, 222 to 498 fathoms; 
3910, off the south coast of Oahu, 311 to 337 fathoms; 3911, off the south coast of Oahu, 334 to 337 
fathoms; 3917, off the south coast of Oahu, 294 to 330 fathoms; 3979, off Bird Island, 222 to 387 
fathoms; 4014, off the east coast of Kauai, 362 to 399 fathoms; 4015, off the east coast of Kauai, 318 to 
362 fathoms; 4021, off the east coast of Kauai, 286 to 399 fathoms; 4025, off the east coast of Kauai, 
275 to 368 fathoms; 4086, off the north coast of Maui, 283 to 308 fathoms; 4088, approach to Pailolo 
Channel, 297 to 306 fathoms; 4089, approach to Pailolo Channel, 297 to 304 fathoms; 4091, approach 
to Pailolo Channel, 306 to 308 fathoms. 
Ccelocephalus acipenserinus Gilbert & Cramer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIX, 1897, 422, pi. xlii, fig. 1. 
Malacocephalus hawaiiensis, new species. Fig. 265. 
Type, 36 cm. long, from station 3907, off south coast of Oahu, depth 304 to 315 fathoms; type, No. 
51618, U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Depth at origin of first dorsal 1.2 in length of head; D. ix, 11 or 12; V. 9; P. 19 or 20. 
This species was secured in the Kaiwi Channel by the Albatross in 1891, and was taken in some 
abundance dui’ing the summer of 1902. It has been identified by Gilbert and Cramer with M. Isevis, 
from the Atlantic, and is undoubtedly closely related to that species. There has been no opportunity 
to make direct comparison of specimens, but as Hawaiian specimens in certain important respects fail 
to answer the current descriptions of M. Isevis, it seems advisable to distinguish them from that species. 
The descriptions of M. Isevis are lacking in detail, and other distinctive characters may appear when 
specimens are directly compared. Two specimens captured by the Investigator in the Andaman Sea 
have been identified by Alcock with M. Isevis, without further remarks. 
