FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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in upper jaw larger than those of outer series, 4 in number; vomer with 2 large depressible fangs in 
front, otherwise edentulous; anterior nostrils in short tubes near tip of snout, posterior pair without 
tubes, just above eyes; interorbital space narrow, convex; gill-openings small; skin rather thin; origin 
of dorsal a little nearer gill-opening than corner of mouth; caudal very small and roundly pointed. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown, more or less uniform, marked with irregularly formed light brown 
spots arranged in about 40 or more ill-defined transverse bars; these bands not extending on belly or 
Fig. 23 . — Gymnothorax gracilicauda Jenkins; from the type. 
ventral surface of trunk, or even upon anal fin, though they are all somewhat distinct on the dorsal 
fin; corner of mouth brown. This may be the young of G. steindachneri. 
This description from an example 8.25 inches long, taken at Honolulu in 1889, by Dr. Jenkins. 
The species is known to us only from the Hawaiian Islands and from 2 examples, the type described 
above and another obtained by the Albatross off Molokai. 
Gymnothorax gracilicauda Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 126, fig. 6, Honolulu; Snyder, 1. c. 
(Jan. 19, 1904), 518 (Albatross station 3834, southern coast of Molokai). 
50. Gymnothorax ercodes Jenkins. Fig. 24. 
Head 6.6 in total length, or 3 in distance from tip of snout to vent; depth 12; snout 6.6; eye 1.3; 
gape 2.6; tip of snout to vent 1.35 in tail; interorbital width slightly greater than eye, or nearly equal 
to snout. 
Body moderately elongate and much compressed; tail more compressed and pointed; mouth 
Fig. 24 . — Gymnothorax ercodes Jenkins; from the type. 
