FISHES OF HAWAIIAN" ISLANDS. 
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Novaculichthys woodi Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XIX, 1899 (Aug. 30, 1900), 52, fig. 8, Honolulu (type, No. 6029, Stan- 
ford Univ., Coll. Dr. Wood); Jenkins, Bull. U. S.Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23,1903), 465 (Honolulu). 
Novaculichthys entargyreus Jenkins, Bull. U. S.Fish Comm., XIX, 1899 (Aug. 30, 1900), 53, fig. 9, Honolulu (type, No. 5984, 
Stanford Univ., Coll. Dr. Wood). 
Novaculichthys tattoo Seale, Occasional Papers Bishop Museum, Vol. I, No. 4, 5, fig. 2, 1901, Honolulu (type, No. 611, B. P. B. M., 
Coll. A. Seale). 
258. Novaculichthys taeniourus (Lacepede). Fig. 138. 
Head 3.2 in length; depth 3; eye 7.5 in head; snout 2.9; maxillary 3.4; preorbital 4.6; interorbital 
5.5; D. ix, 12; A. hi, 12; scales 2-26-9. 
Body rather long and greatly compressed; head rather long, longer than deep; snout long, low 
and bluntly conic; anterior profile oblique, rising in a gently convex line from tip of snout to nape; 
dorsal and ventral outlines in long, low curves; caudal peduncle very deep, 2 in head; mouth rather 
large, nearly horizontal, the maxillary reaching anterior edge of pupil; jaws each with a pair of strong 
curved canines in front, and a series of small, close-set conic teeth laterally, usually a second or third 
pair of smaller canines toward the front; eye small, anterior, above axis of body; interorbital rather 
broad, convex but not trenchant; opercles smooth, their edges membranous, the opercle ending in a 
long broad soft flap; dorsal fin continuous, first 2 spines not detached, the membrane between them 
and the third not notched, these spines large but soft and flexible, not produced in the female, but 
markedly produced in the male, their length- being more than twice that of third spine; origin of dorsal 
fin over vertical from upper edge of preopercle, length of second dorsal spine equaling gape; other 
dorsal spines somewhat stiffer and sharper, their length about equal to second; soft portion of dorsal 
somewhat elevated, length of longest rays 2 in head; anal similar to soft dorsal, its rays somewhat 
longer, 1.8 in head; caudal broad, slightly convex, its length 2 in head; ventrals short, not reaching 
vent by a distance slightly greater than diameter of eye, their length 2.4 in head; pectoral broad, its 
length slightly greater than half head; scales large, smooth, and thin; lateral line following second row 
of scales from back, until under base of third dorsal ray from last, where it drops 3 rows of scales and 
continues to base of caudal, there being 19 pores on the first part and 4 on the other; head entirely 
naked, except a few very small obscure scales back of orbit. 
Color in life, from a specimen (No. 03249) from Honolulu, dull olive brown; each scale, except on 
belly, with a large vertical oblong spot of olive white; belly light dull red, each scale with a white 
edge; scales of breast plain dirty olive; head olive, darker above, reddish on lips; 4 dark olive bands 
radiating from eye, each edged with gray, the second and third confluent at base, the first and second 
short, the third reaching edge of subopercle and the fourth nearly to edge of preopercle; membranes 
