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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
blotch on proximal half; a light pink zone around anterior portion of caudal peduncle, showing also 
on posterior end of dorsal. 
Color in life of example from Hilo, head livid violet brown, the varied marks orange, posteriorly 
scarlet; body reddish brown, each scale with a bright red bar, redder in the young than in the adult; 
caudal peduncle olivaceous, the fin in the adult with blue or olive rays, the tip red; bar across caudal 
peduncle light pinkish; dorsal dull olive green or brown with orange marks or lines, the last rays 
pinkish like the crossbar; anal rosy; ventrals rosy, with a red-black blotch on the inner side; pec- 
toral orange, scarlet at base; jaws and throat livid bluish. Smaller examples show no blue on caudal 
rays. Young are very rosy. Bones and teeth bluish green. 
Another example from Hilo had the anterior half of the body dull olive when fresh, posterior 
becoming more reddish with varied marks of bright orange, those about eye yellow alternately 
with livid blue; eye blue with yellow streaks; iris red; posterior part of dorsal and anal clear orange 
pink; dorsal dusky, edged and mottled with reddish; anal with more red, shaded with dusky; caudal 
light orange, barred and dotted with light olive and with 2 washes of black, 1 basal and terminal; a 
black spot edged with bright yellow behind eye; another near middle of side not ocellate. 
Color in alcohol, dull brown, darker on back; head grayish with narrow pale lines above; below 
eye oblique pale lines running down across preopercle, subopercle, and interopercle, inclosed above 
by narrow line beginning behind corner of mouth and running up below eye and across to axil of pec- 
toral; a pale vertical streak across caudal peduncle below basal portion of last dorsal rays; dorsal gray- 
ish with 2 narrow pale longitudinal streaks and base of last rays pale; anal pale, rays greenish, 
posteriorly dusky on outer portion, a median pale longitudinal line; caudal greenish, edged above 
and below with brownish; pectoral and ventrals pale brownish, latter tinged with dull greenish, 
basally blackish brown. 
This species is very common about Hawaii, coming daily into the markets of Honolulu and Hilo, 
from which places we have 26 specimens 5.5 to 10.25 inches long. Gunther records the species from 
Yap Island, and the Albatross obtained it at Honolulu and off Molokai. Known also from Johnston 
Island. 
Cheilinus hexagonatus Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, VII, 247, pi. 135, fig. B, 1881, Yap Island; Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 
XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19. 1904), 530 (Honolulu and station 3834, off southern coast of Molokai). 
Cheilinus digramma, Smith & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1882, 133 (Johnston Island); not of Lacepede. 
Cheilinus zonurus Jenkins, Bull. Ii. S. Fish. Comm., XIX, 1899 (Aug. 30, 1900), 56, fig. 13, Honolulu (type, No. 6134, 
Stanford Univ. Coll. Dr. Jenkins); Jenkins, op. cit., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 434 (Honolulu). 
255. Cheilinus bimaculatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Plate XXXVIII. 
Head 3 in length; depth 2.9; eye 5 in head; snout 3.25; preorbital 5.5; interorbital 4.5; D. ix, 
10 or 11 ; A. hi, 8 or 9; scales 2-22-6. 
Body short and deep; dorsal profile evenly and gently curved from tip of snout to last dorsal ray; 
ventral outline somewhat less convex; head conic; snout moderate, bluntly pointed; mouth rather 
large, slightly oblique; maxillary nearly reaching vertical of eye; each jaw with a pair of strong 
canines in front and a series of shorter teeth laterally; eye moderate, the lower edge on line of axis of 
body; interorbital rather broad, moderately convex; fins high; origin of dorsal over gill-opening; 
first dorsal spine short, the others longer, their length equal to distance from tip of snout to middle of 
pupil; dorsal rays somewhat higher, their length 1.9 in head; anal similar to soft dorsal, its last rays 
but one somewhat produced, making the fin pointed; caudal usually with the upper and middle rays 
greatly produced and filamentous, the produced rays usually consisting of 1 upper and 3 or 4 middle 
rays; middle rays sometimes little produced; lower caudal rays usually not produced, the tip of the 
fin forming a sharp angle; ventrals reaching two-thirds of way to origin of anal, their length 1.8 in 
head; pectoral short, broad and rounded, the upper rays scarcely longer than the lower, 2 in head; 
scales large, those on nape and breast not reduced; head covered with large scales; lateral line ceasing 
at base of soft dorsal ray, beginning again 2 scales lower down and 1 to 3 scales anteriorly and con- 
tinuing to base of caudal. Description based chiefly upon a specimen (No. 03002) 5 inches long, from 
Honolulu. 
Color in life of a nearly fresh specimen, taken at Honolulu June 7, rosy or brick-red, greenish on 
back, paler below; blackish blotches on caudal peduncle, a small black spot on middle of side below 
lateral line, below sixth dorsal spine; anterior part of side vermiculated with orange-red on borders of 
