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with 3 pairs of enlarged canine-like teeth in front and a series of smaller close-set teeth laterally, the 
canines sometimes not developed; premaxillaries strongly protractile; skin on' lips at sides broad and 
flap-like; eye rather large, its lower edge on axis of body; scales large, smooth, firm, the surfaces very 
finely striate; cheek and opercles scaled, 2 rows on cheek; lateral line following curvature of back to 
scale under base of last dorsal ray, where it is broken, beginning again on scale in same series 2 rows 
lower, or sometimes in same series 2 scales more anterior; fins rather large; dorsal beginning over 
base of pectoral, membranes of spines extending beyond their sharp tips, longest dorsal spine about 
equal to snout, last dorsal ray somewhat produced; anal similar to soft dorsal, the spines and rays 
about equal to snout; caudal rounded, equal to snout and eye; ventrals short, equal to snout; pectoral 
rounded equal to snout and pupil. 
Color in life, brownish red, the anterior half coppery, the posterior half grayish; side of body 
with 8 nearly black longitudinal stripes following along the rows of scales, narrower than the inter- 
spaces, broadest and most distinct posteriorly, the upper one fading under the dorsal, sometimes traces 
of a faint ninth line; a faint median streak from nape to front of dorsal preceded by a distinct white 
streak from vertex to tip of mouth; head vaguely mottled purplish and orange, the opercles largely 
orange; spinous dorsal dull purplish at base, then dull blue, followed by dull yellow, the fleshy tips 
crimson; soft dorsal mostly orange yellow, reticulated with bluish, dull purplish at base with a dull 
bluish streak above it; anal like soft dorsal; caudal bright orange-yellow; pectoral and ventrals dull 
pink. 
The same specimen in alcohol is pale brownish white, the longitudinal stripes black or dark 
brown; head dusky yellowish; fins bluish and yellowish green; base of caudal most yellowish. 
Another specimen (No. 03498) in life showed the body purple-lake or claret color, with 7 black 
lines running laterally through the body; the second line from the top runs over the upper lateral 
line, and the posterior portion of the fourth line over the lower lateral line; head same color as the 
body, but without the black bars, except the occipital region, which has 4 thin black streaks which 
are continuous with those of the body; cheek with yellow dots in irregular rows; several (about 5) 
purple streaks radiate from eye, which may be continuous with the black bars on the body in living 
examples; interorbital space and top of snout with rose-red streaks running along the median line; 
lips bright rose-red, a yellowish red streak over eye; spinous dorsal with 3 purple and 2 yellow bars, 
which are slightly wavy, alternating each other, ending on tip with a purple bar; the yellow prepon- 
derates in the soft dorsal, in which the purple bars are reduced to very thin streaks; rays purph ; 
caudal fin bright yellow; anal same as the soft dorsal; pectorals and ventrals plain, pale claret. 
The above description is based upon a specimen (No. 03238) obtained at Honolulu, June 11, 1901. 
The species was found at Honolulu by Wood, Jordan and Snyder, by us, and by the Albatross, and by 
us at Hilo. The 19 specimens examined are 3.6 to 5.2 inches long. 
Pseuduchcilinus octotxnia Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XIX, 1899 (Aug. 30. 1900), 04, iig. 22, Honolulu- (type, No. 0122 
Stanford Univ. Mus. Coll., Mr. Kaleipio); Jenkins, op. fit., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 404 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. 
cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 530 (Honolulu). 
