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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Scales smaller than in M. murdjan, number in lateral line .34 in type, 35 to 38 in some of the cotypes; 
scales strongly dentate, and striate near the edges; a strongly dentate humeral scale. 
Color in life, bright scarlet, centers of the scales paler; a blackish-red bar behind, and on edge of, 
opercle, continued as red (not black) into the axil; first dorsal golden, with red basal blotches on mem- 
branes; second dorsal golden, with crimson at base, spine and first ray white; caudal golden, first ray 
white above and below; anal golden, the siiines and first ray white; all the vertical fins narrowly edged 
with red; ventrals mostly pink, with golden wash on first rays; pectoral plain crimson; axil light red. 
Color in alcohol, yellowish or orange white, the edges of the scales paler; some of the scales with 
small brownish dustings on the edges; edge of opercle black; opercle and cheek somewhat silvery; fins 
all pale yellowish, without dark edges. In some individuals the general color is more silvery, and in 
one example (No. 04860) the axil of the pectoral is somewhat dusky. In life the color is more scarlet 
than in M. murdjan and the fins yellow, not red as in M. murdjan and all other Hawaiian species. 
Mi/ripristis chrysere s is related to M. murdjan, from which it differs in the smaller scales, larger eye, 
less black in the axil, and the absence of bla'ck edges to the dorsal and anal fins as in the life colors 
already noted, the yellow fins being the most conspicuous character in life. It, reaches a length of 9 or 
10 inches and appears to be moderately abundant at Honolulu and Hilo. 
Type, No. 50629, U. S. N. M. (field No. 03463), a specimen 8 inches long, obtained at Hilo, Hawaii. 
The numerous cotypes and the museums in which they have been deposited are indicated in the fol- 
lowing tabular list of specimens: 
Field. 
No. 
Length. 
Locality. 
Final disposition of specimen. 
Field 
No. 
Length. 
Locality. 
Final disposition of specimen. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
2558 
4 
Honolulu. 
04862 
9 
Hilo 
Cotype, No. , M.C.Z. 
03463 
8 
Hilo 
Type, No. 50629, U. S. N. M. 
04863 
9 
do 
Cotype, No. 9802, Ind. Univ. 
04823 
8.5 
do 
Cotype, No. 7452, L. S. .Tr. 
Mus. 
Univ. Mus. 
04867 
Si 
Honolulu. 
Cotype, No. 2702, U. S. F. C. 
04827 
8 
do 
Do. 
04868 
7 
do 
Cotvpe, No. 1689, Bishop Mus. 
04833 
0 
Honolulu. 
Cotvpe, No. 2283, Am. Mus. 
04869 
8 
do 
Cotype, No. 1490, Cal. Ac. Sci. 
Nat. Hist. 
04887 
8 
do 
04839 
7 
do 
Cotype, No. 24273, Ac. Nat. Sci. 
04889 
7 
do 
Phila. 
04890 
8 
do .... 
04860 
9.5 
Hilo 
Cotvpe, No. 50630, U. S. N. M. 
04892 
8 
do — 
04861 
9 
do 
Cotype, No. 3948, Field Col. 
Mus. 
15. Myripristis argyromus Jordan & Evermann, new species. 
Head 3.5 in length; depth 2.75; eye 2.4 in head; snout 5; maxillary 1.8; mandible 1.6; interor- 
bital 3.75; D. x-i, 15; A. iv, 13; scales 4-33-5. 
Body rather long and compressed, dorsal and ventral outlines about equally and evenly convex 
from snout to origins of anal and soft dorsal fins; head rather large but short; mouth moderate, max- 
illary reaching vertical at posterior edge of pupil, the exposed portion broad, triangular, the upper 
edge concave, the end rounded and the anterior edge with short blunt teeth, strongest at angle; tip of 
upper jaw with a shallow notch roughened at its outer edges; jaws equal, lower fitting into the notch 
of upper and with 2 patches of strong blunt tooth-like tubercles at its tip; eye large, its middle above 
level of tip of upper jaw; interorbital space wide and slightly convex; 2 low, nearly parallel median 
ridges from tip of snout to nape, diverging slightly at their middle, another low ridge from above orbit 
backward to nape, and another backward around orbit; ridges on nape divergent; suborbital narrow, 
dentate on both edges; opercular bones all striate and dentate at the edges; opercle with a short, flat, 
triangular spine; scales large, rough, striate near the edges which are finely toothed; a series of 4 or 
5 large modified scales across nape, and a series of triangular scales along bases of dorsal and anal; 
about 10 scales in front of dorsal; origin of dorsal about over lower base oi pectoral; dorsal spines 
slender, the first 3.2 in head, third and fourth longest, about equal to orbit; interval between dorsals 
very short; anterior dorsal rays somewhat produced, their length equal to snout and eye; edge of fin 
concave, last rays nearly 3, or equal to pupil; anal spines graduated, the first very small, second short 
but stout, third much longer and stoutest, its length 1.3 in eye, fourth still longer and more slender; 
anterior anal rays produced, their length about equal to that of longest dorsal rays, free edge of fin 
concave; caudal evenly forked, the lobes equal to length of head; peetoral long and pointed, reaching 
beyond tips of ventrals, about 1.3 in head; ventrals shorter, 1.6 in head, their tips equally distant 
between their bases and that of first anal ray. 
