FISHES FROM THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS., 
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Coloration in life: General color bright-blue, sides rosy, a series of about live or six short (about 
one-fourth depth) oblique indistinct dusky bars on sides of body just behind pectoral fin, behind this 
an indistinct rosy patch; head, throat, breast, and belly covered with bright-golden spots and short 
irregular bars of same color. All the fins bright-blue with golden reticulations, which are especially 
bright on vertical lins; opercular flap large, terminating with a black spot as large as eye, posterior 
border of this spot with a narrow yellow border, anterior golden border. This spot is very similar to 
that seen on a suufish {Lepomis) . 
One fine specimen of this beautiful fish was obtained by me. Type No. 12141, ~L. S. Jr. Uni- 
versity Museum. It gave the following measurements : 
Coris lepomis. 
Milli- 
meters. 
Coris lepomis. 
Milli- 
meters. 
123 
45 
Flap 
23 
65 
388 
72 
450 
15 
127 
40 
Height ol' soft dorsal 
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Fig. 4 . — Coris lepomis Jenkins, new species. Type. Figure not quite accurate in proportional measurements. 
Hemicoris remedius Jenkins, new species. Fig. 5. 
Head with flap 3.66 in body to base of caudal; in total length 4.33; head without flap 4.40 and 
5.25. Depth 2.66 and 4.5. D. ix, 12. A. in, 12. Caudal rounded; first rays of ventral produced, 
reaching second anal spine. Scales 3-54-17; tubes simple; scales with tubes 50; scales on throat 
small, those on belly not much smaller than on body; head naked; rows of small scales extending on 
membranes between the caudal rays. Teeth, four prominent canines in upper jaw, two in lower, the 
second pair not much larger than those of series following; posterior canine tooth present. 
Coloration in life: Body brown, dark above, light below; a bright-red baud from eye aloug 
lateral line to its downward bend; a bright-red band from opercular flap extending backward to 
tip of pectoral, from which it is broken up into a series of short oblique crossbars on every alternate 
row of scales, becoming less distinct toward caudal peduncle; a bright-red band curving downward 
just below anterior portion of middle line of body, becoming indistinct about below a vertical from 
twelfth dorsal spine; another bright-red band from axil curving downward and extending backward 
to about second soft ray of anal; a bright-red band from angle of mouth curving upward to lower 
margin of eye, and down to edge of opercle just below flap; a bright-red band from a short distance 
behind symphysis curving upward over cheek and downward across middle of posterior margin of 
opercle on to breast to a point just behind base of ventrals; a bright-red band on each side of middle 
F. C. B. 1899—4 
