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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
spines slender, sharp, first 3.2, second 2, third 1.9, tenth 4.6, last 3.3 in head; anterior dorsal rays 
elongate, bluntly pointed, second ray 1.7, last 5.5; third anal spine large, 2.5 in head; soft anal similar 
to soft dorsal, second ray 1.7, last 6.4; caudal elongate, forked, the lobes pointed; pectoral small, 
pointed, 1.5; ventral 1.5, spine 2.25; scales large, finely ctenoid ; lateral line slightly convex, running 
down obliquely to base of caudal along upper side of caudal peduncle; 4 slender, sharp-pointed 
graduated rays above and below. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown, or browpish white, fins pale or whitish; no black or brown on 
edges of gill-opening or in axil of pectoral. 
This species is known only from the type and 11 other examples collected by Dr. Jenkins at 
Honolulu in 1889, ranging in length from 2.2 to 5.25 inches. 
Myripristis sealei Jenkins, Bull. IT. S. Pish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 439, tig. 13, Honolulu. 
109. Myripristis murdjan (Forskal) . “ U’u.” Plate V. 
Head 2.75 in length; depth 2.3; eye 2.4 in head; snout 4.7; maxillary 1.75; interorbital 4.9; 
D. x-i, 14; A. iv, 13; P. i, 14; Y. i, 7; scales 4-28 to 30-7. 
Body elongate, rather deep, compressed, its greatest depth about base of ventral; head rather large, 
its depth about equal to its length; snout blunt, obtuse, broad, its upper profile convex, beyond which 
the upper profile of the bead is nearly straight from above the nostril to occiput; eye very large, high, 
hardly impinging upon the upper profile of head, and its diameter nearly equal to postocular part of 
head;, mouth very large, oblique; mandible slightly projecting, and maxillary not reaching posteriorly 
to below posterior margin of eye; distal expanded extremity of maxillary 1.65 in eye; several enlarged 
and blunt teeth on the outer front edges of jaws; teeth fine, in broad bands in jaws, on vomer, and 
palatines; tongue rather thick, pointed, free; suborbital rim narrow, finely serrate; lower posterior 
margin of maxillary with blunt denticulations; lips rather thick and fleshy; nostrils very close 
together, the posterior very large, close to front rim of orbit; bones on head all finely serrate; opercle 
with well-developed spine; gill-opening large, filaments large; gillrakers long, fine, the longest longer 
than longest gill-filaments; pseudobranchise very large, longer than gill-filaments; dorsal spines rather 
slender, first spine 3.5 in head, second 2.8, third 2.25, tenth 6.8, and eleventh 4; anterior dorsal rays 
the highest, base of fin 2.3 in head; origin of soft anal behind soft dorsal, base of fin 2.5 in head, ante- 
rior rays highest; third anal spine enlarged, equal to fourth, which is slender; caudal rather small, 
forked; pectoral small; ventral reaching two-thirds distance to anus, 1.7 in head; ventral spine slender, 
2.2 in head; caudal peduncle elongate, compressed, its length 2.3 in head and its depth 3.6; scales 
