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Another example in life was deep purple red, fading to livid purplish. Old examples were 
distinctly striped, caudal dull purplish red, not yellow, besides pale blotch below dorsal. 
Color in alcohol pale brown; back a little darker, lower surface whitish; head with dark-brown 
lines above, lowest 2 broadest, running from snout to e)'e and back along side of head; streak from 
corner of mouth and several spots at same place dark brown; narrow brown lines along back and 
broader ones on side; a black blotch on spinous dorsal in front between second and third spines; a 
large black blotch below last dorsal rays on back; fins all pale or whitish, except ventrals, which 
are grayish in middle. 
We have several small examples (the smallest 4.2 inches in length) which are marked exactly 
like the adults. 
This species is very common about Hawaii, appearing daily in the markets. Our collections 
contain 33 examples (31 from Honolulu and 2 from Hilo), 4.4 to 14 inches in length. Specimens 
were obtained at Honolulu also by Dr. Jenkins, the Fur Seal Commission, and by the Albatross. 
Cossyplius albotxniatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIII, 141, 1839, Sandwich Islands; Gunther, Cat., IV, 
105, 1862 (Sandwich Islands). 
Cossyplius pUunulatus, Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, VII, 240, pi. CXXX, 1881 (Sandwich Islands); in part. 
Labroides dimidiatus, Gunther, Siidsee, 243, 1881 (Sandwich Islands). 
Harpebilunulata, Smith & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 137 (Johnston Island); Steindachner, Denies. Ak. Wiss. 
Wien, LXX. 1900, 503 (Honolulu). 
Lepidoploisa bilunulatus, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 458 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 
19, 1904), 528 (Honolulu). 
218. Lepidaplois modestus (Garrett). Fig. 119. 
Head- nearly 4 in total length; depth 4; eye nearly 6 in head; scales ?— 33— 12 ; Br. 6; D. xii, 10; 
A. hi, 12; V. i, 5; P. 17; C. 2, 1, 6, 6, 1, 2. Head presents a slight concave depression above eyes; 
preopercular serrations very small; eyes subcircular; maxillary reaching to center of eye; scales of 
lateral line slightly branched. ^ 
Dorsal fin extends over a base equal to half length of fish without caudal, base of soft portion 
slightly less than one-third the fin; anal nearly half as long as dorsal, its posterior base slightly 
posterior to dorsal ; ventrals nearly reaching anal; edges of caudal fin pointed and prolonged. 
Color, purplish brown, passing into bluish gray beneath, and obsoletely lineated longitudinally 
with darker; a large oblong pale diffuse spot beneath the posterior end of the dorsal fin, which is 
directed obliquely downward and forward; irides silvery, tinged with yellow; dorsal fin pale grayish, 
marked anteriorly with a large diffuse bluish-black spot, its soft portion tinged with reddish and 
margined above with yellow; anal, ventral, and caudal bluish gray, the former posteriorly tinged 
with faded red and edged with yellow; pectorals nearly colorless. (Garrett.) 
Crenilabrus modestus Garrett, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., in, 1863-1868 (Jan., 1864), 106, Sandwich Islands. 
Cossyplius modestus, Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 241, taf. 129, fig. B, 1881 (Honolulu). 
Misprinted Lepidoplois. 
