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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
LIST OF SPECIES. 
Macropharyngodon aquilolo Jenkins, new species. Native name, Hinalea akilolo, applied also to 
other fishes. Fig. 1. 
Head with flap 3.33 in length of body to base of caudal ; 4 in total ; depth 2.5 ; in total 3. D. ix, 
11. A. hi, 11. Scales 2-28-10. Tubes two to three branched, or single. Head naked. Four front 
teeth in each jaw, strong, the second on each side of upper jaw turned backward, prominent posterior 
canines at each angle, two at one angle in one specimen. 
General color in life a light-brown, sometimes darker; a very bright-blue spot on each scale, this 
spot with a black posterior border; five bright-blue lines on side of head running obliquely downward 
and forward; two parallel ones from eye to mouth, the third from just below lower border of eye to 
chin below angle of mouth, the remaining two lower; bright-blue spots and short lines on top of head 
and on opercle. The positions of these lines are constant in the five specimens examined. Dorsal 
and anal with three longitudinal series of bright-blue spots with black borders, the inner and middle 
series being large and distinct spots; anterior dorsal spot between first and third spines bright-scarlet, 
bordered below with bright-yellow, and below this with dark-green ; pectoral plain-brown ; ventrals 
bright-brown with about six transverse series of bright-blue ocelli ; caudal with about five transverse 
series of bright-blue ocelli. The coloration is quite constant in the five specimens taken, varying 
only in darker or lighter shade of brown of the general color. 
Tig. 1 . — Macropharyngodon aquilolo Jenkins, new species. Type. 
Allied to M. geoffroyii Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, and Atl. Ichth , p. 129, tab. 37, fig. 5, from 
which it differs in form of body and pectoral and ventral fins, and in coloration of body, head, and fins. 
The peculiar form of the pharyngeal teeth seems to be a sufficient character upon which to found 
Bleeker’s genus Macropharyngodon , which is here retained. Type No. 6130, L. S. Jr. University Museum. 
This very beautiful fish is not common at Honolulu; some fishermen had never seen specimens 
before. The five obtained by me were taken with the hook. Their measurements were as follows : 
Macropharyngodon 
aquilolo. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
No. 5. 
Macropharyngodon 
aquilolo. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
No. 5. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm . 
mm . 
mm. 
mm . 
mm. 
Length to base of caudal. 
99 
103 
112 
90 
105 
Height of first dorsal 
17 
23 
23 
22 
25 
10 
8 
10 
9 
1 o 
Total length 
116 
126 
135 
112 
130 
Height of soft dorsal 
15 
19 
18 
15 
1 6 
30 
34 
34 
30 
34 
15 
19 
18 
15 
1 6 
40 
44 
46 
40 
41 
25 
27 
29 
24 
26 
7 
7 
y 
6 
7 
25 
27 
29 
24 
26 
Snout 
9 
ii 
ii 
10 
ii 
Width of body 
ii 
ii 
15 
ii 
ii 
