REPORT ON FISHES COLLECTED IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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EVIOTA Jenkins, new genus. 
Eviota Jenkins, new genus of Gob'ddx ( epiphanes ). 
Related most closely to Oxyrnetopon Bleeker, from which it is distinguished by the following char- 
I acters: Body not greatly elongate, head not compressed into a keel, dorsal tins separate, neither dorsal 
ji nor anal elongate. 
233. Eviota epiphanes Jenkins, new species. 
Depth 4 in length; head a little greater than the depth; eye 3 in head; snout shorter than eye, 
about 4 in head; D. vr, 10; A. 9; scales 25-6. Body not elongate, not compressed; head not com- 
pressed and without keel; inferior pharyngeal bones not united with each other, each enlarged toward 
its lower end, making a triangular expansion, each armed f$r almost its entire length with rather long, 
slender, tajiering villiform teeth; teeth in upper jaw in a band, widest in front; teeth villiform, short, 
conical, and a little curved inward; in front of side of each half of jaw in outer series and more promi- 
nently curved inward, several large canine-like teeth; teeth in lower jaw, villiform, straight, slender, 
tapering, in band widest in front, where there is a group of enlarged, backward-curved, canine-like 
teeth; vomer and palatines toothless; branchiostegals 5; pectoral 17 rays; the second to seventh (from 
the lower edge) inclusive, branched, the others simple, the seventh longest; a group of about 6 long, 
slender, bristle-like spines projecting from the segments of tips of the rays, and extending basal ly through 
second third terminal segments of ray, as in Eleolris; ventrals close together, of one short spine and 
5 rays, fifth ray of each rudimentary, fourth longest, others successively shorter; first about half 
length of fourth; all the rays, except fifth, branched, the branches very short, lateral, on the outer 
side only of the rays; base of pectoral large; longest ray equal to head; ventrals shorter than pectoral; 
dorsal fins well separated, by a distance greater than a third of the head; second, third, and fourth 
dorsal spines longest, about 2 in head; first soft dorsal ray unbranched; anal and soft dorsal rays of 
about uniform height, about 1.6 in head; interorbital very narrow, less than pupil; eyes almost con- 
tiguous; caudal peduncle length 4.5 in body, depth 6.5 in body; a prominent anal papilla. 
Color in life, general color blue; dark vertical bands imbedded in the body; caudal fin orange; the 
markings on head, body, and scales bright brown; belly blue, in some specimens very bright; the 
body translucent. 
Color in alcohol, orange, marked everywhere with small, round black dots; dots on top of head and 
dorsal part of body grouped into areas which form spots between eyes and first dorsal spine also, scat- 
tered on sides of head; in some grouped into 2 or 3 short radiating bands from below eye and on side of 
body, 5 or 6 vertical bands, the first just back of axil, the last before base of caudal fin; numerous very small 
