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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The field numbers and lengths of a few of our specimens are given in the following table: 
Field 
No. 
Length. 
Locality. 
Final disposition of specimen. 
03331 
Inches. 
3. 75 
Honolulu 
No. 7479, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. 
04516 
4. 75 
Hilo 
No. 7480, L. 8. Jr. Univ. Mus. 
04517 
4.5 
do 
No. 3959, Field Col. Mus. 
—04518 
4.2 
do 
-No. 50671, U. -S. N. M. 
04519 
4.2 
do 
No. 2728, U. S. F. C. 
04520 
4 
do 
No. 2729, U. S. F. C. 
04521 
3.8 
do 
No. 1705, Bishop Mus. 
04522 
5.25 
Kailua 
No. . M. C. Z. 
04523 
4.8 
do 
No. 24228, Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 
-^G4. r V2fi 
4.8 
4.5 
L~No. 50670, IT. S. N. M. 
No. 2300, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
04527 
do 
Pomacentrus nigricans , Quoy & Gaimard, Voyage Uranie, Zoo)., 399, 1824 (Sandwich Islands); Cuvier & Valenciennes, 
Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 425, 1830; Gunther, Cat , iv, 34, 1862 (Sandwich Islands) ; not Holocentrus nigricans Laciipede, 
Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 332 and 367, 1803, locality unknown, collected by Commerson. 
Eupomacentras marginatus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Pish Comm, for 1899 (June 8, 1901), 391, fig. 5, Honolulu (Type, No. 49700, 
U. S. N. M., Coll. O. P. Jenkins); not Pomacentrus marginatus Euppell. 
Family LABRIDTL The Wrasse-fishes. 
35. Lepidoplois strophodes Jordan & Evermann, new species. 
Head 2.75 in length; depth 2.75; eye 4.65 in head; snout 3.25; mouth 3.1; interorbital 4; D. xii, 
10; A. hi, 12; scales 7-34-13. 
Body oblong, compressed; head longer than deep; upper and lower profiles evenly and slightly 
convex; snout long, pointed, rounded above; jaws produced, pointed, about equal; mouth large, 
maxillary reaching beyond front of eye; teeth strong, forming a sharp cutting edge on sides of jaws, 
front of each jaw with 4 large canines; eye rather large, anterior, high in head; posterior margin of 
preopercle very finely emarginate; interorbital space rather broad, convex; nostrils small, anterior in 
short tube; dorsal spines pungent, longest 3 in head, last 3.5; third anal spine longest, 2.8; third anal ray 
1.9inhead; pectoral rounded, 1.7; ventrals pointed, 1.4; caudal broad at base, truncate; caudal peduncle 
broad, compressed, its depth 2; scales large, thin, those on front of dorsal, along its base and that of 
anal, small ; lateral line concurrent with back, sloping down at caudal, then running straight to its base. 
Color in life, pale rosy white; upper parts of the snout, nape, and side to base of about ninth 
dorsal spine, lemon-yellow, extending down on side to level of upper edge of pupil; side of head 
very pale rosy, 2 irregular broken lines of wine-colored spots across snout and through eye to 
posterior edge of opercle, a similar row of 4 oblong spots from angle of mouth downward and 
backward to edge of opercle; cheek and side of lower jaw with numerous small irregularly placed 
orange spots; side with about 16 brighter rosy longitudinal lines, those above less distinct on 
account of the deeper rosy ground color, those below more distinct, the ground color being more 
white; side between anal and soft dorsal fins with a broad sooty black spot extending irregularly 
upon both fins and fading out upon body anteriorly, the posterior edge being nearly vertical and 
well defined; caudal peduncle and base of the caudal fin whitish, with a slight tinge of rosy, a pale 
rosy band separating this from the black lateral area; region in front and below the pectoral with 
about 4 series of small reddish brown spots; pectoral region and the under parts somewhat bluish; 
dorsal fin rich lemon-yellow, the tips of the soft rays whitish, and a small, round, black spot on 
middle of membrane of second spine; base of soft rays and last dorsal spines rosy from intrusion 
of the rosy wash on side of body; last dorsal rays sooty black at the base from extension of the 
black spot on the side; caudal pale lemon-yellow; anal pale rosy in center, lemon on spines and 
along tip of fin, base of fin sooty black from intrusion of black spot on side of the body, the black 
extending farthest down on the interradial membranes; pectoral very pale rosy; ventrals pale 
rosy, the membranes bluish, the tip of second ray blackish. 
Color in alcohol (field No. 04291), gray-brown, gradually darker posteriorly; space between soft 
dorsal and anal abruptly black, the color extending forward in darker streaks along the rows of scales 
and forming a large black blotch on soft dorsal and anal; top of head and space before dorsal abruptly 
