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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
136. Gomphosus varius Laecpede. 
Color in life (field No. 214), from eye to end of produced snout dark orange; cheek and underside 
of head rosy; behind the eye 2 rows of dark brown spots; groundwork of body drab, belly light rosy; 
base of each scale with a dark brown spot, small anteriorly, gradually increasing in size posteriorly, 
where they become quite dark; dorsal fin dark brown with a very narrow white edge; anal dark brown, 
with a white edge, and with a row of golden spots along middle of fin, one on each membrane between 
the rays; caudal dark brown, with jmsterior margin yellow, then white; pectoral nearly transparent, 
with shades of yellowish and rosy. 
Fairly common at Honolulu. Eight examples, 6.5 to 9.2 inches in length, were obtained by me in 
1889; and two, 5 and 5.2 inches, were taken by Jordan & Snyder at the same place in 1900. 
Gomphosus varius Lacdpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., hi, 104, pi. 5, tig. 2, 1801; Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, lxx, 1900, 
507 (Honolulu); Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 510 (Sandwich Islands). 
Gomphosus pectoralis Quoy & Gaimard, Voyage de l’Uranie, Zool., 282, 1824, “de 1’lle Mowi.” 
137. Gomphosus tricolor Quoy & Gaimard. “ Hinalea.” 
Color in life (field No. 95, 10 inches long), a very bright dark blue over whole of body; the 
portions of the dorsal, caudal and anal fins projecting beyond the scales, a bright light blue; a dark 
violet bar on anterior part of each scale; pectoral fin with base and axil green, middle portion blue, 
posterior third black; green of axil extending upward on body; ventral fins blue. 
Another example (field No. 242, 10.2 inches long) appeared with body a very dark green, with 
other markings the same as in No. 95. 
Common in the Honolulu market, where its conspicuous color and odd form attract attention. 
Ten specimens, 6.75 to 10.6 inches in length, were taken by me; three, 6.5, 7.25 and 9.7 inches, by , 
the Albatross in 1896; and four, 6.6, 6.8, 7 and 8.2 inches long, by Jordan & Snyder. 
Gomphosus tricolor Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. de PUranie, ZooP, 280, pi. 55, fig. 2, 1824, “de Pile Mowi”; Steindachner, Denks. 
Ak. Wiss. Wien, lxx, 1900, 506 (Honolulu); Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 510 (Sandwich Islands). 
138. Pseudocheilinus octotaenia Jenkins. 
One example, 4 inches in length, is in Dr. Wood’s collection, and was taken by Jordan & Snyder. 
Description in paper referred to. 
Pseudocheilinus octotaenia Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. for. 1899 (August 30, 1900), 64, fig. 22, Honolulu. Ply pc, No. 6122, 
L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus.; coll. Dr. Wood.) 
139. Cheilinus zonurus Jenkins. 
Four examples, 6, 8.6, 9, and 9.5 inches in length, were obtained by me; and one, 10.25 inches, 
by the Albatross in 1896. 
Cheilinus zonurus J enkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm, for 1899 (August 30, 1900), 56, fig. 13, Honolulu. (Type, No. 6134, L. S. 
Jr. Univ. Mus.; coll. O. P. Jenkins.) 
140. Cheilinus bimaculatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
This beautiful little species shows most delicate coloring. From Dr. Bleeker’s description of the 
East Indian species, C. ceramensis, it would appear that it can not be separated from the Hawaiian 
form. 
Cheilinus bimaculatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 96, 1839, Sandwich Islands. 
Cheilinus ceramensis, Bleeker At. p. 69, Taf. 28, fig. 4. 
141. Hemipteronotus umbrilatus Jenkins. 
One specimen, 4.75 inches in length, was obtained by me; and one, 7.5 inches long, by Jordan 
& Snyder. 
Hemipteronotus umbrilatus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm, for 1899 (August 30, 1900), 53, fig. 10, Honolulu. (Type, No. 6135, 
L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus.; coll. O. P. Jenkins.) 
142. Novaculichthys hemisphaerium (Quoy & Gaimard.) 
Two specimens, 7.5 and 8.25 inches in length, were taken by Dr. Wood, and two, 5.75 and 9.25 
inches, by Jordan & Snyder. 
Julis vanicorensis Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrot., Poiss., 704, pi. 20, fig. 1. 
Novacula vanicolensis, Steindachner Denks, Ak. Wiss. Wien, lxx, 501, 1900 (Honolulu). 
