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Fig. 20 . — Priacanthus meeki Jenkins, new species. Type. 
Family XXXI. LUTIANIDvE. 
92. Aphareus flavivultus Jenkins. 
Color notes of the type taken when fresh (1889), overlooked when the species was originally 
described, areas follows: General color light-bluish; end of lower jaw, snout, face, and top of head 
covered by a broad band of bright yellow, the yellow band extending less broad and less distinct to 
origin of dorsal; dorsal fin with lower portion rosy, outer yellowish; anal yellow; caudal yellow with 
rosy posterior margin; vent.rals yellowish with white anterior margin; pectoral rosy. 
One specimen, 12.5 inches long, taken off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. The two young (Nos. 1 
and 2) in the table given with the description, identified with this species, are evidently of another 
species, A. furcatus (Lacepede). 
Aphareus flavivultus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1899 (June 8, 1901), 390, fig. 1. Honolulu. (Type, No. 19691, U. S. N. M., 
coll. 0. P. Jenkins.) 
93. Aphareus furcatus (Lacepede). 
The two small examples recorded by me in 1901 as A. flavimi-ltus are apparently referable to this 
species. One large specimen was obtained at Honolulu by Dr. Wood. 
Labrus furcatus Lac6p6de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, pp. 429 and 477, pi. 21, fig. 1, 1801. 
Aphareus rutilans Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 490, 1830, Isle de France; .Gunther, Fische der Stidsee, 17, 
1873 (Society Islands). 
Aphareus furcatus, Gunther, Cat., I, 386, 1859; Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S. N. M., xxnr, 1901, 719, pis. xxvm and xxix 
(Odawara, Japan). 
94. Apsilus microdon (Steindachner). 
Two specimens of this species, 5.25 and 10 inches in length, are in Dr. Wood’s collection. It is a 
common food-fish in the market in Honolulu. 
Aprion microdon Steindachner, Sitz.-Ber. Ak. Wiss, Wien, lx:xiv, Abt. i, 1876, 158 (Sandwich Islands). 
Priacanthus meeki resembles P. liamrur somewhat, but differs from it in the much shorter head, 
deeper body, larger eye, higher soft dorsal and anal, and in the coloration of the dorsal and anal fins. 
The description is based on the type, No. 50847, U. S. N. M., 12 inches in length, and two cotypes, 
4 and 4.5 inches long, in Dr. W ood’s collection, all from Honolulu. The smaller examples agree with 
the description of the larger one, except that the spine at the angle of pi'eopercle is more distinct. 
This species is named for Dr. Seth Eugene Meek, assistant curator of zoology, Field Columbian 
Museum. 
