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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
of preopercle with ] or 2 small spines; both vertical and horizontal margins of preopercle serrated; 
preorbital entire, edge of suborbital hidden by scales; teeth in sides of jaw minute, in villiform bands; 
2 small canines in front of upper jaw, 2 to 6 in front of lower jaw; first dorsal spine short, less than 
eye; second more than twice as long as first; third nearly twice second, prominently longer than the 
succeeding spines; fourth spine 1.66 in the third; spines from fourth to tenth decreasing regularly in 
length, tenth 1.25 in fourth; soft dorsal somewhat rounded, longest rays equal to fifth spine; first anal 
spine a little shorter than first dorsal; third anal spine equal to second dorsal, slender and a little 
longer than second anal spine; soft anal short, medium rays longest, a little longer than longest rays 
of soft dorsal; caudal rather large, deeply forked, longest rays equal to length of head, longer than 
longest dorsal spine, lower lobe a little smaller than upper; ventrals longer than pectorals, about 
equal to head, acute, second ray longest; pectorals pointed, median rays longest; all parts of the head 
and body except the preorbital and jaws scaled; scales ctenoid and ciliated; lateral line strongly 
arched anteriorly, beginning above upper end of gill-cleft on eighth scale below the dorsal spines, the 
highest part on the fourth row from the back and on the twentieth from the ventral median line. 
Color when fresh (No. 03461) orange-red, side and back nearly bright golden; tail and breast 
shaded pink; a golden stripe from eye to tip of snout, bordered all around by crimson, the crimson 
lines meeting across snout; lower lip crimson; chin golden; dorsal spines golden, their bases olive, the 
membranes mostly crimson; distal half of soft dorsal golden; a crimson stripe along base of dorsal, 
same shade covering most of lower half of fin except as replaced by dark olive-green, which forms a 
stripe above the crimson stripe and irregular blotches above that, leaving 2 irregular rounded spots 
of the crimson ground color within the green; an olive-green cross blotch at base of tail; caudal golden 
at tip, middle pink, outer rays bright crimson, basal half of fin mostly scarlet, the orange and red 
irregularly placed; pectoral shaded in gold and orange; ventrals and anal same, spines pinkish; iris 
golden, ringed by purple. 
Color in alcohol, plain reddish yellow (red in life), dusky on scaly part of base of soft dorsal and 
of posterior part of spinous dorsal and about base of caudal. Color in life pale orange-red, the dark 
areas clear olive-green. 
This species was obtained at Honolulu (Jenkins, Wood, Jordan and Evermann, and the Albatross) , 
Hilo, and Kailua. It is taken in rather deep water, and is at times common in the Hilo market. Our 
numerous specimens are 7.5 to 9.5 inches in length. 
Anthias fuscipinnis Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XIX, 1899 (June 8, 1901), 389, fig. 3, Honolulu (Type, No. 49695, U. S. 
Nat. Mus., Coll. O. P. Jenkins); Jenkins, op. cit., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 450 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. 
(Jan. 19, 1904), 527 (Honolulu). 
Genus 128. PSEUD ANTHIAS Bleeker. 
Scales small; jaws scaled; lateral line sharply angulated at base of caudal peduncle; no teeth on 
tongue. 
Pscudanthi as Bleeker, Poiss. Reunion et Madagascar, in Ned. Tijds. Dierk., IV, 1873, 94 (pleurotsenia) . 
174. Pseudanthias kelloggi (Jordan & Evermann). Fig. 92. 
Head 2.5 in length; depth 2.5; eye 4.5 in head; snout 3.6; maxillary 2; in ter orbital 5.4; D. xi, 15; 
A. hi, 7; P. 15; scales 4-36-10; gillrakers 16+4. 
Body short, deep, and compressed; dorsal outline greatly arched, profile from origin of spinous 
dorsal to tip of snout nearly straight, being gently concave over interorbital space; ventral outline 
nearly straight; caudal peduncle compressed, its greatest depth 3 in head; head longer than deep; 
snout bluntly pointed, lower jaw prominent, slightly the longer; mouth large, nearly horizontal; a 
narrow band ol small, sharp, conic teeth on palatines, a small patch on vomer, a band of cardiform 
teeth on upper jaw, a narrower band in lower jaw; several large canine teeth in each jaw anteriorly, 
3 of these close together on middle of each side of lower jaw, these hooked backward; 6 or 8 large 
pores on lower side of mandible and several on upper part of snout; maxillary reaching to posterior 
edge of orbit, its greatest width 1.5 in eye; edge of preopercle above angle and edge of opercle below 
the upper middle of base of pectoral denticulate; 2 broad opercular spines, the upper the larger; eye 
anterior, its lower edge on line with upper base of pectoral; fins large, the second soft dorsal raj' and 
