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collected by Dr. Jenkins at Honolulu in 1889. Specimens were obtained by us at Honolulu, Hilo, 
Napoopoo, and Kailua, but none was obtained by the Albatross. 
Labrus crueniatui Laet'pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 522, 1801, Martinique. 
Priacanthus eepediamis Desmarest, Pr6m. Dec. Ichtyol., 9, pi. 1, 1823, Havana. 
Priacanthus carolinus Lesson, Voyage Coquille, Poiss., 224, 1826, Caroline Islands; Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 
Poiss., Ill, 105, 1829 (Qualand or Strong island, Caroline Islands); Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mu's., No. 7, 72, 1877 
(Honolulu). 
Priacanthus schlcgtfi Hilgendorf, Sitzgber. Ges. Naturh. 1879, 79, Japan. 
Priacanthus cruentatus, Jordan & Evermann, Fish. North & Mid. Amur., I, 1238, 1896; Jenkins, Bull. IT. S. Fish Comm., 
XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 450 (Honolulu). 
177. Priacanthus meeki Jenkins. “ Ula lau cm” Fit;. 95. 
Head 3.4 in length; depth 2.8; eye 2.3 in head; snout 3.6; interorbital 4; maxillary 2; mandible 
1.8; D. x, 14; A. hi, 15; scales 1 2—1 15—45 ; gillrakers 2-f-27. 
Body oblong, compressed, the dorsal and ventral outlines about equally curved; head large, snout 
blunt, the anterior profile straight from tip of snout to nape; mouth large, very oblique, the lower 
jaw projecting, its anterior edge in line with profile from snout to nape; maxillary reaching anterior 
edge of pupil, its tip broad, nearly half eye; teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines in strong villiform 
bands, many of those on jaw somewhat enlarged; gillrakers rather long, about 2 in eye, their number 
Fig. 95 . — Priacanthus meeki Jenkins; from the type. 
about 2J-27; eye very large, its lower edge slightly below axis of body; interorbital space moderate, 
convex; opercle with a weak flat spine; preoperele serrate, without spine, weak and obscure except in 
young, where it is better developed; preorbital rough-edged; fins rather large, origin of spinous dorsal 
over base of pectoral; longest dorsal spine about 1.6 in head, soft portion of dorsal rounded, longest 
ray 1.5 in head; longest anal spine 1.8 in head, anal high, longest ray 1.3 in head; caudal rather 
deeply lunate, outer rays nearly equal to head, the middle ray 1.5 in the outer, upper lobe somewhat 
the longer; pectorals short, not reaching tips of ventrals, 1.5 in head; ventrals long, pointed, reaching 
base of third anal spine, 1 in head; scales small and rough, the free portion narrowly lunate, concave 
anteriorly, the posterior edge roughened ; lateral line rising in a regular curve from gill-opening to 
about the tenth pore, then following contour of back to base of caudal. 
Color in life, deep red, darker than any other species of Priacanthus, without trace of dark cross- 
bands or round rosy spots; a row of about 15 roundish dusky spots, very faint along lateral line; fins 
deep red, unspotted, the dorsal and anal edged with dusky; caudal mesial lv dusky edged; ventrals 
with black membranes, pectoral paler rosy; inside of mouth deep orange red. 
