REPORT ON FISHES COLLECTED IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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196. Pachynathus capistratus (Shaw). “ Humuhu/mu meemee.” 
Color in life (field Nos. 116 and 228), body uniform light brown, fins same color, plain; rosy line 
beginning slightly behind and below angle of mouth, extending backward and slightly downward to 
vertical from eye, this joined by another of same color extending under chin. In No. 116, membrane 
of first dorsal olivaceous, with a black blotch; scaled skin pushed back from the chin shows bright 
orange-yellow; outer margins of soft dorsal and anal light. 
Five examples taken by me at Honolulu, where it is common. The longest is 11 inches in length. 
Batistes capistratus Shaw, General Zoology, v, 417, 1804. 
Batistes mitis Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soe., I, 1831, 109; Gunther, Cat., vnr, 218, 1870 (Indian and Pacific oceans). 
Batistes frenatus Bleeker, Atlas, v, 114, pi. 223, fig. 2, 1865. 
Pachynathus capistratus, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., n, 1704, 1898 (Tropical Pacific). 
197. Pachynathus bursa (Lacepede). 
General color, light drab, with darker cloudings; a narrow distinct white line from near angle of 
mouth to near origin of soft anal, which returns along base of spinous anal to base of ventral spine; an 
olivaceous dash extending in a curve from upper part of base of pectoral upward and backward toward 
middle of, but not quite reaching, the first dorsal fin; another from above and through the eye down- 
ward and backward to lower part of base of pectoral; throat and belly below white line light; first 
dorsal olivaceous with white; second dorsal and second anal transparent, first anal black; caudal 
dusky; inside of mouth black. 
I have 11 specimens, from 5 to 8.5 inches in length. It seems to be abundant and is sold in the 
market as food. 
Batiste bourse Lactpcde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 335, 375, 1798. 
Batistes bursa, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthy., 476, 1801 (Indian Ocean); Bleeker, Atlas, v, 116, pi. 223, fig. 3, 1865; 
Gunther, Cat., vm, 219, 1870 (Indian and Pacific oceans). 
Balistapus bursa , Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 514 (Hawaiian Islands). 
198. Balistapus rectangulus (Bloch & Schneider). “ Hurnuhumu Xukunuku Apua’u.” 
Very brilliantly colored in life; ground of upper part of body and head light brown becoming 
lighter toward snout; 3 black bands reaching from one eye to the other, the borders and the spaces 
between these bands green; the most posterior green band on head passing downward and backward, 
where, after an abrupt bend backward, it becomes a violet line running along middle of body to a 
vertical from tip of third dorsal spine, where it forms an acute-angled fork, each prong a brilliant 
yellow line, the upper ending at about base of third from last soft dorsal ray, the lower ending at 
corresponding position at base of anal; within the fork are 2 other bright yellow lines parallel with the 
prongs of fork, forming anteriorly an acute angle on a vertical through first third of dorsal. 
Twelve specimens of this very brilliant fish were obtained by me at Honolulu, the longest 9.5 
inches in length. It is very abundant at Honolulu where it is conspicuous in the market on account 
of its colors. 
Batistes rectangulus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthy , 465, 1801, Indian Ocean; Giinther, Cat., vm, 225, 1870. 
Batistes cinctus Bleeker, Atlas, v, 119, pi. 228, fig. 1, 1865. 
Balistapus rectangulus, Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 514 (Hawaiian Islands). 
199. Melichthys radula Solander. “Humuhumu JEleelc.” 
Color in life, uniformly black with slight show of bluish; axil bluish; a very distinct, conspicuous, 
narrow line of light blue running longitudinally on base of dorsal; a similar one on base of anal. 
Apparently abundant at Honolulu, where I obtained 7 specimens, the longest being II inches. 
Batistes radula Solander, in Richardson, Voy. H. M. S. Samarang, Fishes, 21, 1848. 
Melichthys r ingens Bleeker, Atlas, v, 108, pi. 220, fig. 2, 1865; not of Linnseus. 
Batistes buhiva Gunther, Cat., viii, 227, 1870; Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 56, 1877 (Honolulu); not of Lac5p5de nor 
of Risso. 
Batistes ( Melanichthys ) buniva, Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, lxx, 1900, 517 (Honolulu and Laysan). 
Melichthys bispinosus Gilbert, Proc, U, S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 125, Clarion and Socorro islands, 
