REPORT ON FISHES COLLECTED IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
431 
extending more than an eye’s diameter beyond eye; lower jaw shorter than upper and somewhat 
curved; eye about midway between tip of snout and angle of mouth; interorbital equals snout; origin 
of dorsal in front of gill-opening a distance equal to length of mouth; dorsal fin somewhat higher than 
anal, its height greater than length of snout; tail compressed and moderately slender; a few short 
conical teeth in anterior parts of each jaw; 2 series of conical teeth in each side of upper jaw; roof of 
mouth paved with molars, in 2 rows anteriorly, in 4 posteriorly; molars in 2 series in each side of 
lower jaw; gill-opening small, narrow, length less than diameter of eye; anterior nostril tubular, near 
tip of snout, considerably above margin of mouth; posterior nostril round and inconspicuous, near 
middle of upper margin of eye. 
Color in alcohol, dark brownish with about 23 dark crossbands, mostly as broad as depth of body, 
indistinct on middle part of body, but quite distinct anteriorly and on tail; alternating with them are 
white ones which are narrower than eye and which extend on anal and dorsal fins, the edges of the 
bands jagged, the white bands widening toward the belly; extreme tip of tail brown (in the cotypes 
the tip is narrowly edged with white); side of lower jaw brown, angle of mouth black with white 
spot in front on lower jaw; gill-opening without dark border. The 2 cotypes show some variations in 
color. In the larger (No. 2351), 16.5 inches long, the body is more uniformly dark brown and the 
light crossbands are very indistinct except on tail; in the other (No. 2353), 9.5 inches in length, the 
white crossbands are very distinct, all completely encircling the body except 3 or 4 anterior to vent. 
Three specimens obtained, from Honolulu. Type, No. 50686, U. S. N. M. (field No. 2352), 12.5 
24. Echidna psalion Jenkins, new species. 
Head 7.25 in body, or 3.4 in distance from tip of snout to vent; depth 13; snout 5.5 in head; eye 
slightly less than snout and slightly nearer tip of snout than angle of mouth; gape 2.5 in head; tip of 
snout to vent 1.2 in tail; interorbital about equal to eye; body moderately elongate and compressed 
posteriorly; tail slender, pointed; gill-opening very small and inconspicuous; anterior nostril tubular, 
about 2 in eye, near tip of snout, well above the lip; posterior nostril without tube, oval, above eye 
just anterior to its middle; a series of pores along upper lip and a series on each side of lower jaw; 
upper jaw with a single series of blunt, 'conic teeth in front, those on sides smaller and in a single 
series; roof of mouth with 2 series of large molars; vomer in front with a single series of about 3 
strong, blunt, conical, depressible teeth; lower jaw with 2 series of blunt, conic teeth, the inner the 
larger; origin of dorsal in front of gill-opening a distance equal to one-fourth the head. 
Color in alcohol, a series of 27 narrow brown bands alternating with wider light bands, the narrow 
bands mostly somewhat narrower than eye, the light ones mostly twice eye; a series of narrow parallel 
brown longitudinal lines on side of head in front of gill-opening; the anterior brown band running 
through eye, the second around head posterior to gape; angle of mouth brown. 
Only one specimen obtained. Type, No. 50685, U. S. N. M. (original No. 2355), 13 inches long, 
Honolulu. 
