FISHES FROM THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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orange wash; head pale rosy, a small postocular blue spot, a short blue line forward from eye, and a 
second of same color on upper lip and across cheek to eye, where it has a slight break, then continues 
under eye as a greenish-blue bar; under lip with narrow blue edge; chin faded salmon with a double 
blue crescent; space from chin to isthmus bright blue; an oblong bright blue spot on subopercle, 
behind -which is a smaller irregular one bordered above by a broad greenish-blue space; dorsal green- 
ish blue, with a broad submedian orange band, the lower greenish-blue band made up of large, scarcely 
connected, bluish spots, the upper half continuous with a narrow bright blue border; a small orange 
blotch on base of last dorsal ray; caudal pale rosy at base, then with a greenish bar, followed by a 
broad rosy bar, then by a broad terminal greenish -blue bar, dark blue in front, greenish in middle 
and pale blue on outer third ; upper and lower edges of caudal blue, below which is a broad rosy 
orange stripe; anal greenish blue at base, then a broad orange stripe, the outer half greenish blue with 
narrow bright blue edge; pectoral orange anteriorly, pale bluish behind, the anterior border blue; ven- 
trals orange, anterior edge and tip blue; iris pale orange. 
Color in spirits, light dirty grayish white, lighter below; a narrow pea-green stripe on edge of 
upper lip, breaking up into irregular spots from angle of mouth to lower edge of orbit, a similar stripe 
from nostril to eye and slightly beyond upper posterior border of eye; these lines sometimes continu- 
ous and unbroken; lower jaw edged with green, a broader pea-green cross-stripe at anterior edge of 
branchiostegal opening; subopercles each with a broad green stripe; line of union of gill-membranes 
broadly green; dorsal with a series of large olive-green spots at base and a broad band of similar color 
on distal half, these separated by a paler band and cut by intrusions from it both above and below; 
dorsal fin with a very narrow paler border; and with a series of greenish spots at base, then a broad 
pale yellowish white line, bounded distally by an indefinite, wavy, black line shading off into the 
greenish of the distal half; last ray of anal dusky on its outer third; caudal greenish-olive at base and 
on produced outer rays, edges of fin above and below green; middle rays with a broad lunate area of 
pale green, scalloped proximally by dark green, separated from the lighter green base by a broad 
whitish interspace, the upper and lower edge also darker green; ventrals creamy white, the outer edge 
pale greenish; pectoral whitish, the upper edge dusky. 
There is some variation in the width of the green markings on the head, sometimes the stripes on 
the lower part of the head being very broad. 
This species is related to Scarus gilberti, from which it differs in the more strongly produced caudal 
lobes, in the narrower lines on the snout, the broader green lines on the throat, the absence of a green 
median line on the breast, and in the very different coloration of the fins. 
Field 
No. 
Length. 
Locality. 
Final disposition of specimen. 
03485 
04152 
03040 
04353 
04352 
Inches. 
14 
14 
Hilo 
Honolulu 
do 
do 
do 
Type, No. 50648, U. S. N. M. 
Cotype, No. 7464, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. 
Cotype, No. 2716, U. S. F. C. 
Cotype, No. 9811, Ind. Uniy. Mus. 
Cotype, No. 3964, Field Col. Mus. 
Also one specimen (No. 12046), 9 inches long, obtained by Dr. Wood at Honolulu. 
42. Scarus barborus Jordan & Evermann, new species. 
Head 3.2 in length; depth 3.2; eye 6.6 in head; snout 2.9; interorbital 2.9; preorbital 4; D. ix, 
10; A. hi, 9; P. 14; scales 2-25-6. 
Body oblong, not very deep nor greatly compressed; head about as long as deep, conic, com- 
pressed; snout short, blunt and rounded; upper jaw produced, its lip double, covering entire dental 
plate; lower lip covering half of dental plate; no canine teeth; eye anterior, high, its lower border con- 
siderably above upper base of pectoral; caudal peduncle short and deep, its depth 2 in head. 
Origin of dorsal over upper base of pectoral, spines flexible, short, not quite as long as rays; long- 
est ray 2.1 in head; longest anal ray 2.2 in head; caudal truncate; ventrals 1.9 in head, not reaching 
vent by half their length; pectoral 1.5 in head. Scales large and thin, very slightly roughened by 
radiating lines of granulations extending to margins of scales; lateral line interrupted, the pores being 
on 18 scales, then dropping 2 rows to row of scales under posterior base of dorsal, and continuing to base 
of caudal on middle of caudal peduncle, 7 pores in the shorter part, which begins on the row following 
the row on which the upper part ends, there not being 2 pores in the same row; the scales extend well 
