FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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In life, ground color olive-gray, flecked with olive-brown; a series of large spots near dorsal and anal 
.outlines of body, and some intermediate spots olive-green, with olive-brown ocellating rings; an inter- 
ocular bar, and some spots on rostrum bright greenish yellow; intervals between rostral spots with 
much blue; vertical fins finely dotted with brown, and marked with equidistant oblong brown spots. 
Only the type specimen is known. 
Platopbrys inermis, new species. Fig. 268. 
Type, a female, 179 mm. long, from station 4102, Pailolo Channel, between Molokai and Maui, 
depth 122 to 132 fathoms; type, No. 51648, II. S. Nat. Mus. 
Length of head 26 hundredths of total length without caudal; length of snout, from lower eye 5.5, 
from upper eye 11; diameter of upper eye 8; interorbital width 3 (5.5 in male); length of maxillary 
10; depth of body 45; depth of caudal peduncle 9.5; longest dorsal ray 10; longest caudal ray 19; 
longest ray of left pectoral 16; chord of curve of lateral line 16. D. 106; A. 86; P. 13; scales in lateral 
line 87. 
Body sinistral, of moderate depth ; outlines evenly curved; no angle above upper eye in either sex; 
mouth oblique; maxillary reaching vertical from front of pupil; mandibular symphysis with no spine 
and scarcely protruding beyond lower profile; teeth slender, conical, in a single series in each 
Fig. 268 . — Platophrys inermis Gilbert, new species. Type. 
jaw; palate unarmed; front of upper eye slightly behind vertical from front of pupil of lower eye; 
interorbital space gently concave; gill-rakers slender, short, about 0.2 diameter of pupil, 10 in number 
on horizontal limb of outer arch. 
First dorsal ray inserted well on blind side of snout, immediately above nostrils, more widely 
separated than other rays, and provided anteriorly with a free membranous flap; none of the dorsal 
rays produced or largely free; dorsal highest at origin of its posterior third; longest dorsal ray equal- 
ing distance from tip of snout to middle of lower eye; caudal peduncle without free portion; left 
ventral with an elongate base, its rays all inserted on ventral ridge; membrane from last ventral ray 
deflected to the left, leaving the ridge, and not connecting with front of anal fin; length of pectoral 
equal to distance from tip of snout to middle of upper eye, its uppermost ray very short, about 0.1 
second ray; all the fins, except caudal, with rays unbranched. 
Scales small, those on left (eyed) side rough-ctenoid, moderately deciduous; those on right side 
cycloid; right side without lateral line; lateral line on left side with a short high arch, which is broadly 
flat-topped, the summit being a horizontal straight line; chord of arch contained 4J times in posterior 
straight portion of lateral line. A short supplemental branch forks and forms a V behind upper 
eye; maxillary and snout but partly scaled; rest of head, including mandible and interorbital space, 
wholly scaled; rays of dorsal and anal fins each with a single row of scales; pectorals and ventrals 
