FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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10 were collected by Dr. Jordan, 3 by tbe Albatross in 1896, and 4 by Jordan and Snyder in 1900. 
Specimens were collected by the Albatross in 1902 at Honolulu and Puako Bay, Hawaii. 
This handsome species is common in the markets at Honolulu and Hilo, whither it is brought in 
quantities from its native reefs. 
Gomphosus tricolor Quoy & Gaimard, Voyage de l’Uranie, Zool., 280, pi. 55, fig. 2, 1824, Maui; Steindachner, Denies. At. 
Wiss. Wien, LXX, 1900, 506 (Honolulu); Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 510 (Sandwich Islands); Jenkins, 
Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 464 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 529 (Honolulu; 
Puako Bay, Hawaii). 
Gomphosus cepedianus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIV, 18, pi. 390, 1839, 1 Hawaiian and Caroline islands. 
Gomphosus sand wichen sis, Gunther, Cat., IV, 194, 1862 (Sandwich Islands). 
Genus 154. ANAMPSES Cuvier. 
Body oblong, rather deep, compressed, covered with moderate or large scales (25 to 30 in the 
lateral line, about 50 in subgenus Ampheces) ; lateral line continuous; head scaleless; preopercle entire; 
teeth uniserial; 2 anterior canines in each jaw prominent, turned forward, compressed, with cutting 
edges; no posterior canines; D. ix, 12; A. m, 12. Species of rather large size and showy colors, of the 
East Indies and Polynesia. The group is naturally divisible into 2 groups distinguished by the 
size of the scales. The Japanese species constitute the subgenus or probably distinct genus Ampheces , 
distinguished from Anampses by tbe small scales. 
Anampses Cuvier, Regne Anim., Ed. n, 259, 18i9 (tetrodon; cuvier; the characters taken from the latter species; the 
former perhaps a Tilapia.) 
Ampheces Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 1902, 628 (geographicus) . 
a. Color in life, grayish olive, under parts brick red. About 13 or 14 series of white spots and blotches forming stripes from 
head to tail cuvier , p. 291 
aa. Color in life, brownish red with more or less blue on each scale. 
6. Each scale with a narrow, vertical blue line r evennann i, p. 293 
hb. Bluish vertical lines on scales broader and more spot-like in the center, especially on caudal peduncle, where they 
.assume the form of oval spots. Side with about a dozen pale horizontal stripes, made up of the series of spots on 
the rows of scales godeffroyi , p. 294 
229. Anampses cuvier Quoy & Gaimard. “Opule;” “ Hilu.” Fig. 126. 
Head 3.3 in length; depth 2.8; eye 8 in head; snout 3.1; preorbital 4.2; interorbital 4; I) ix, 12; 
A. hi, 12, scales 4-28-9. 
Body oblong, deep, and compressed; dorsal and ventral outlines about equally convex; head 
short, snout obtusely conic, the anterior profile a little concave in front of eye; mouth small, 2 pairs 
of flat projecting canines in the jaws anteriorly ; eye small, entirely above axis of body; interorbital 
high, convex, nape trenchant; caudal peduncle compressed, its least depth 2 in head; tins moderate; 
dorsal spines nearly as long as snout, rays somewhat longer, fully equaling snout; anal similar to soft 
dorsal and equally high; caudal squarely truncate, rays 2 in head; ventrals short, not reaching vent, 
2.4 in head; pectoral longer, 1.9 in head; scales large, deep, the edges soft; scales on nape and breast 
much reduced; a row of small scales at base of dorsal and anal and some on base of caudal; lateral line 
normal, following curvature of back until under base of third dorsal ray from last, where it curves 
downward for 3 rows of scales and continues to base of caudal; head entirely naked. 
Color in life, grayish olive, under parts brick-red; edges of scales somewhat darker; back along 
base of dorsal fin with numerous, irregularly arranged, small round white spots; below these about 13 
or 14 series of larger roundish white spots, with smaller white blotches between, forming stripes from 
head to caudal, these most broken above, the lower 5 or 6 continuous white lines; among these spots are 
a good many small yellowish or orange specks; the red below pectoral in 5 or 6 definite stripes; small 
white specks along base of anal; upper half of head pale brownish, with numerous small round white 
dots, a number of narrow pale blue wavy lines forward and downward from eye and 1 or 2 short ones 
back of it; lower parts of head bluish white with numerous small round red spots; breast, throat, and 
lips reddish white, with a few red spots; snout above lip and preorbital region dusky; 2 small bluish 
spots on side of caudal peduncle and a few smaller bluer ones on under edge; dorsal orange-red, most 
pronounced in the outer band, mottled with darker and greenish elsewhere, crossed by about 6 narrow 
irregular or broken greenish blue lines, the lower one broadest anteriorly, the 3 lower ones more or 
