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ing below posterior rim of pupil; distal expanded extremity of maxillary 1.7 in eye; teeth sharp, minute, 
not enlarged on edges of jaws; teeth in jaws, on vomer and on palatines in bands; tongue elongate, 
rounded, free; suborbital rim narrow, finely serrate; lower posterior margin of maxillary smooth; 
lips rather thick, fleshy; nostrils close together, posterior very large, close to front rim of orbit; bones on 
head all finely serrate; opercle with well-developed spine; gill-opening large, filaments large; gillrakers 
long, fine, longest longer than longest gill-filaments; pseudobranchise very large, free for distal half; 
dorsal spines slender, sharp, first 3.2, second 2, third 1.9, tenth 4.6, last 3.3 in head; anterior dorsal 
rays elongate, bluntly pointed, second ray 1.7, last 5.5; third anal spine large, 2.5 in head; soft anal 
similar to soft dorsal, second ray 1.7, last 6.4; caudal elongate, forked, the lobes pointed; pectoral small, 
pointed, 1.5; ventral 1.5, spine 2.25 in head; scales large, finely ctenoid; lateral line slightly convex, 
running down obliquely to base of caudal along upper side of caudal peduncle; four slender, sharp- 
pointed, graduated rays above and below. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown or brownish-white, fins pale or whitish; no black or brown on edges 
of gill -opening or in axil of pectoral. 
My collection contains 12 examples of this species, all obtained at Honolulu in 1889. They range 
in length from 2.2 to 5.25 inches. Type, No. 50708, U. S. N. M. 
Named for Mr. Alvin Seale, curator of fishes in the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu. 
56. Myripristis murdjan (Forskal). 
Color in life (field No. 85), body and head pale red, first dorsal pink, outer margin orange, outer 
margins of second dorsal, caudal, ventral and anal fins white; immediately underneath the white margin 
of each fin is a bright red region, the rest of each of these fins a paler red; pectoral pale red. Seven 
specimens were taken, ranging from 4.25 to 6.2 inches in length; three are in Dr. Wood’s collection, 
5.30 to 6.25 inches in length, and one 4 inches long was taken by Jordan & Snyder. Large numbers 
are brought to the market. 
Seisena murdjan Forskal, Descript. Animal., 48, 1776, Djidda, Red Sea. 
Myripristis murdjan, Ruppell, Fisohe Roth. Meer, 8G. pi. 23, fig. 2, 1828; Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 92, plates i.xi and 
i,xii, 1873 (Hawaiian Islands); Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, lxx, 492, 1900 (Honolulu); Fowler, Proc. 
Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 501 (Hawaiian Islands). 
57. Flammeo sammara (Forskal). 
Four specimens taken, 7 .75 to 8.75 inches in length, and one 8.5 inches long is in I)r. Wood’s 
collection. This is the first record of the species from the Hawaiian Islands. It appears to be fairly 
common at Honolulu. 
Sciena sammara Schneider, Syst. Ichthy., 89, 1801, Red Sea. 
Holocentrum sammara, Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 100, 1875 (Society and Paumotu islands). 
58. Holocentrus diadema Lacepede. 
Color in life (field No. 114), body bright red, with about 9 white longitudinal stripes, somewhat 
diverging from the head and converging toward the tail; iris red; top of head and snout red; cheek 
white with a red stripe from pupil to preopercular spine; first dorsal a dark scarlet with a longitudinal 
white stripe broken at the sixth and seventh spines; outer tips of the first to eighth spines transparent ; 
second dorsal red; caudal red; anal red, but membrane between longest spine and first soft ray bright 
scarlet; pectoral pale red; ventral with a narrow white line next and parallel to the spine; parallel to 
this a wider bright scarlet line, the remainder of the fin colorless. 
I obtained 11 specimens of this brilliant fish, ranging from 4 to 6.5 inches in length. It is quite 
al randant about the reef. 
Holocentrum diadema Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 335, 372, 374, pi. 32, tig. 3, 1802; Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 97, 1875 
(Samoa, Tahiti, Tonga, ami Hawaiian Islands); Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, lxx, 1900, 492 (Honolulu, 
Laysan). 
59. Holocentrus microstomus Gunther. 
Two specimens, respectively 6 and 6.2 inches in length, of this species are in Dr. Wood’s 
collection from Honolulu. 
Holocentrum microstoma, Gunther, Cat., I, 34, 1859, Amboyna; Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, I, 98, pi. 64, fig. B, 1875 (Amboyna, 
Samoa, Tonga, Society, Kingsmill, Hervey, Paumotu, and Hawaiian islands). 
Holocentrus microstoma, Seale, Occasional Papers, Bishop Museum, I, No. 3, 70, 1901 (Guam). 
