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third longest, 1.6 in head; median soft rays longest, equal to third spine; first anal spine very short, 
second equal to second dorsal spine; first soft anal rays longest, equal to longest soft dorsal rays; 
caudal mutilated, outline and length indeterminate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head; pectoral 
1.75 in head, somewhat longer than distance from tip of snout to posterior rim of orbit; ventral not 
quite equaling pectoral; scales very large, loosely inserted, ctenoid; anterior portion of lateral line 
with about 10 tubesending just below front of second dorsal fin; the posterior portion continued to 
base of caudal as very rudimentary pores on the row of scales two scales below. 
General coloration in life plain; pectoral light rosy; dorsal, caudal, and anal yellow; ventral dusky. 
One specimen, 1.5 inches in length, taken by me in coral rocks at Honolulu. This is probably 
the species recorded by Streets as Apogon auritus. Type, No. 50699, U. S. N. M., Honolulu. 
? Apogon auritus, Streets, Bull U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 72, 1877 (Honolulu); not of Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Two specimens of this species, 3.75 and 4.8 inches in length, were taken by Jordan & Snyder 
in 1900. I did not see it in 1889. It is conspicuously marked with 6 or 7 longitudinal rows of dark 
dots on -the sides of the body. 
Apogon maculiferus Garrett, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., Series I, m, 105, 1863, Hawaiian Islands; Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, i, 20, 
1873 (Sandwich Islands). 
85. Apogon snyderi Jordan & Evermann. 
Color in life (field No. 198), general color pale red, 2 longitudinal pearly lines on the body; iris 
yellow; first dorsal with dusky olivaceous anterior border; white lines along fourth, fifth, sixth, and 
seventh spines, olivaceous between; second dorsal with many white and some olivaceous spots; anal 
with a dusky line along base, red distally; caudal with base dusky, rest pale red; white spot on tip of 
ventral; pectoral pink. 
I obtained six examples of this species ranging from 4.4 to 5 inches in length, anil three 3.7 to 5.5 
inches were taken by Jordan & Snyder in 1900. It is abundant at Honolulu. 
Apogon snyderi Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm, for 1902, (April 11, 1903), 180, Honolulu. Type, No. 50640, U. S. N. 
M., coll. Jordan & Evermann. 
86. Apogon menesemus Jenkins, new species. 
Head 2.75 in length; depth 2.8; eye 2.8 in head; snout 4; D. vn-i, 9; A. n, 8; C. 21; P. 13; 
V. i, 5; scales 3-27-6; maxillary not reaching quite to posterior margin of orbit; suborbital 3 in inter- 
orbital, which is about equal to snout; angle of preopercle rounded, somewhat produced backward, 
both margins serrated; teeth in jaws in villiform bands; teeth on vomer, none on palatines; gillrakers 
slender, 10 on lower arm of first arch; branchiostegals 6; first dorsal spine very short, third longest, 2 
