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176. Teuthis olivaceus (Bloch & Schneider). 
Color in life (field No. 311), body dark brown, nearly black; fins black, with show of blue; 
horizontal orange bar about as wide as eye and long as head, extending from upper angle of opercular 
opening, straight backwards; this bar with a wide border of black; chin dark blue; posterior margin 
of caudal between upper and lower produced rays white; an orange line along base of dorsal, a similar 
one along base of anal. Eleven examples, -6.5 to 10.6 inches long, were obtained by me; and one, 9.5 
inches long, by Jordan & Snyder. 
Acantliurus olivaceus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthy., 213, 214, 1801, Tahiti; Gunther, Cat., m, 336, 1801 (Otaheiti, Feejee 
Islands); ibid., Fische der Siidsee, iv, 113, 1875; Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, lxx, 1900, 493 (Honolulu). 
Acantliurus humeralis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., x, 231, 1835, Caroline and Society Islands. 
Fit;. 2J. — Teuthis leucopareius Jenkins, new species. Type. 
177. Teuthis leucopareius Jenkins, new species. 
Head 4 in length; depth 1.75; eye 3.25 in head; snout 1.25; interorbital 2.7; D. ix, 26; A. in, 24. 
Body deep, compressed, upper profile strongly convex, lower shallowly convex ; head deep, compressed, 
upper profile steep to dorsal, lower profile nearly straight from chin to root of ventrals; jaws large, 
lower slightly produced; snout long, slightly concave in profile; mouth small, low; teeth broad, edges 
crenulate, compressed, forming a sharp cutting edge; margin of preopercle very oblique, blunt angle 
of which would fall below middle of eye; eye rather large, high, in posterior third of length of head; 
nostrils small, close together, anterior with small thin flap, circular, posterior a small slit; interorbital 
Space broad, convex; dorsal spines strong, graduated to posterior, last 1.3 in head; first anal ray 1.25; 
anal spines graduated to third, longest 1.65; fourth anal ray 1.25; caudal broad, emarginate; pectoral 
pointed, 2.8 in body; ventral sharp-pointed, 4 in body; ventral spine 2 in head; caudal peduncle com- 
pressed, its depth 2; caudal spine moderately long, depressible in a groove, 4 in body. 
Color in life of the type, a whitish band from base of first 2 dorsal spines downward behind eye, 
including opercle to its lower margin; also a transverse whitish band at base of caudal. 
Color in alcohol, deep brown, vertical fins and ventrals darker; a light brown band running from 
