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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Color in spirits, dull olivaceous white above, paler on sides, under parts dirty whitish; fins all 
dusk*' white. 
The above description based upon a specimen (No. 03410), 31 inches long, from Honolulu market 
where several other large examples were seen July 18. A smaller specimen (No. 03304), 8 inches long, 
may be described as follows: 
Head 3.2 in length; depth 3.3; eye 5 in head; snout 3; interorbital 3.5; maxillary 2.3; I), vm-i, 
31; A. ii— i, 20; gillrakers 13 + 4, serrate, longest three-fourths diameter of eye. 
Body rather fusiform, compressed; head a fourth longer than deep; mouth rather large; snout 
rounded; jaws subequal, the lower prominent and slightly the longer; broad bands of villiform teeth 
on jaws, vomer, palatines, and tongue; tongue broad, rounded, thin, and free for most of its length; 
maxillary broad, 0.8 diameter of eye, reaching to center of pupil; eye just above median line, ante- 
rior; interorbital broad and very convex; dorsal spines short and weak, connected by membrane and 
folding in a groove; soft dorsal long and low, highest anteriorly, the longest ray about 2.5 in head; 
caudal forked, lobes moderate, equal to distance from snout to edge of preopercle; anal similar to 
soft dorsal, the spines very short and blunt, the longest rays equal to snout; origin of anal under 
first third of soft dorsal; ventral 2.1 in head; pectoral broad, falcate, short, 2.4 in head, its lower base 
slightly in advance of base of ventral; lateral line arched anteriorly, no caudal keel; scales small, 
none on opercle, snout, and top of head. 
Color in life, golden olivaceous on back, golden on side below lateral line and on belly; 2 short 
darkish postocular lines; dorsal and anal rich orange, the dorsal with narrow bluish edge; caudal dirty 
yellow; pectoral pale yellow; ventrals yellow, the rays whitish; iris whitish and brown. Color in 
alcohol, grayish olivaceous above, becoming silvery white below; dorsal edged with dark; other fins 
pale. 
Another example had head 3.7; depth 3.75; maxillary broad, 2.2 to front of pupil; D. i, 29; A. i, 
20; color when fresh, olive with a golden stripe from head to tail. We have examined a score of 
exarnples at Honolulu, 4 to 31 inches long. This species has hitherto been known only from Japan. 
Seriola purpurascens Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 113, PI. LXI, 1842, seas ofjapan; Richardson, Ichth. Chin., 271,1846 
(after Schlegel) (Sea of Japan); Snyder, Bull. IT. S. Fish fomm., XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 523 (Honolulu). 
Seriola aurovittata Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 115, PI. LXII, fig. 1, 1842, Japan; Richardson, Ichth. Chin., 271, 1859 
(Canton). 
Seriola quinqueradiata Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 11.5, PI. LXII, fig. 2, 1842, Nagasaki, Japan; Richardson, Ichth. 
Chin., 272, 1846 (China). 
Seriola dumerilii , Gunther, Cat., II, 462, 1860 (China, part) ; Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, V, 136, taf. XC, Fig. A, 1876 
(Hawaiian Islands, part) ; Klunzinger, Fische des rothen Meeres, I, 103, 1884 (Red Sea, part). 
137. Seriola sparna Jenkins. “Kcihala opio.” Fig. 70. 
Head 3.7 in length; depth 3.7; eye 5.2 in head; snout 3.2; maxillary 2.6; interorbital 3.5; H. vi-32; 
A. ii, 20; scales about 220. 
Body rather long, fusiform, not much compressed, the back greatly elevated, the ventral outline 
little convex; head rather long, conic; snout long, gently curved; mouth large, little oblique, the jaws 
equal; maxillary reaching front of pupil, its posterior margin oblique, its width nearly equaling vertical 
diameter of eye; teeth in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, and tongue; eye small, anterior, in axis of 
body; adipose eyelid moderately developed, especially behind; interorbital space broad, strongly 
convex, the nape slightly keeled; least depth of caudal peduncle less than its least width; preopercle 
entire; gillrakers longer than diameter of pupil, 22 on lower arm of first arch; spinous dorsal low, the 
rays short and weak, the second spine 6.3 in head, the first scarcely more than one-third the second, 
the others regularly decreasing in length, the fifth shorter than the first; soft dorsal low, the first rays 
scarcely elevated, their length 3.7 in head; anal similar to soft dorsal, but much shorter, its first rays 
1.25 in snout; caudal deeply forked, the lobes slender, about equal, 1.3 in head; pectoral short, about 
2 in head; ventrals short, 2 in head, reaching less than halfway to vent; body covered with very 
small scales; cheek, preopercle and upper part of opercle densely scaled, rest of head naked; breast 
scaled; lateral line nearly straight, slight arch above pectoral; scutes scarcely developed, perceptible 
only on the caudal peduncle, where they are very weak. 
Color in alcohol, pale brownish or purplish above with silvery reflections, lower part of side and 
under parts yellowish silvery. Recently seen in the Waikiki aquarium. 
