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259. Novaculichthys kallosoma (Bleeker). Plate XLI. 
Head measured to end of opercular flap 3 in length; depth 3; depth of caudal peduncle 6; snout 3.3 
in head; eye 5; dorsal ix, 12; anal in, 12; scales 2-26-9. Color in life green, spotted with white and 
banded with black. 
Width of body 2.7 in head; snout not pointed, the profile convex from tip of snout to occiput; 
interorbital area acutely rounded or angular, the distance between the eyes equal to their diameter; 
maxillary extending to a vertical passing through anterior edge of pupil; each jaw with a pair of 
canine teeth at the symphysis, the lower pair fitting between the upper teeth; head naked, except 
a small space behind and below orbit, where there are 2 rows of minute scales, which do not 
extend around the orbit but occupy only a space equal in length to diameter of eye, the center of the 
scaled area being on a line between pupil and upper edge of base of pectoral; lateral line interrupted 
on the twentieth scale, beginning again on the third scale below and extending to base of caudal; first 
and second spines of dorsal greatly lengthened and very flexible, the first equal to the length of head, 
the second 2.4 in length, these spines connected with each other and with the following ones, the 
membrane between the first and second about equal in height to the eighth spine, that between 
the second and third deeply scolloped; each spine with a narrow strip of membrane along the 
posterior edge of the free part, the fifth longest of the remaining spines, its length 2.2 in head; 
longest ray 1.6 in head; anal spines slender, graduated in length from first to third, the second 4.5 in 
head; longest ray 1.7; caudal rounded, its length 1.2 in head; pectoral extending to a point above 
origin of anal; second ray of ventral elongate; when depressed, reaching anal opening. 
Color in alcohol, yellowish white; head with 9 black lines radiating from eye; an elongate white 
spot on chin extending downward from corner of mouth, another on cheek below eye near angle of 
preopercle, and a third below the latter in the branchiostegal region; body with 5 narrow dusky 
bands, the first extending from origin of dorsal downward and backward across edge of opercular flap 
and base of pectoral to base of ventral; the second passing downward from base of sixth dorsal spine, 
widening and disappearing in region of pectoral; the third extending between the third dorsal and the 
third anal rays; the fourth between the eighth dorsal and eighth anal rays; the fifth, shaped like a 
chevron, the point forward, is on the caudal peduncle; first and second spines with broad, dusky 
bars, the fin with large dusky clouds, prolongations of the dark body bands; between the large spots 
are smaller ones corresponding with vertical rows of irregular spots on the body; anal colored like the 
dorsal; distal half of caudal rays dusky; pectoral white; ventrals dusky, the inner half of fin bordered 
with white. 
Described from a single specimen, 4.5 inches long, obtained by the Albatross at Honolulu, which 
agrees with a specimen, bright green in life, collected by Dr. Jordan at Pago Pago, and with another 
from the Island of Negros, P. I. 
Since the above was written we have received from Mr. Berndt a second specimen, from Honolulu, 
which is grass-green in color. Our plate is from the Pago Pago specimen, by Dr. Jordan, revised by 
Kako Morita. 
Xovacula kallosoma Bleeker. Visch. Amboyna, 5, in Act. Soci Sc. Indo. Neerl. VIII, Amboyna. 
Novaculichthys kallosoma, Bleeker, Synon. Labr. in Versl. Kon. Ak. Wet.. XIII, 1862, 293 (Amboyna); Atlas Icth. I, 145, 
1862, tab. 31, fig. 3; Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 530 (Honolulu). 
Genus 164. CYMOLUTES Gunther. 
Body compressed, oblong, covered with small scales; snout rather elevated; head naked; lateral 
line interrupted ; no posterior canine tooth; D. ix, 12-14; A. hi, 12-14. 
Cymolutes Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., VIII, 1861, 387 ( prselextatus ). 
260. Cymolutes lecluse (Quoy & Gaimard). 
Head 3.35 in length ; depth 3.65; eye 5.65 in head; snout 2; gape 4; interorbital 5-1; D. ix, 13; 
A. hi, 13; scales 7-79-23. 
Body fusiform or wedge-shaped, tapering gradually from nape to caudal; head short; snout long 
but decurved, the anterior profile in a regular bold curve from tip of snout to nape; mouth low, hori- 
zontal, the gape not nearly reaching vertical of eye; each jaw with a pair of strong canines in front and 
a series of smaller conic teeth laterally, inside of which are shorter, bluntly conic teeth; eyes high up, 
