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scales; vertical fins bright blue with reticulations and spots of pink; ventrals blue; pectorals blue, olive, 
and pink, sometimes spotted with olive-green and edged with white. 
Color in spirits, pale yellowish or bluish-green, the bases of the scales darker, the edges bluish- 
white; top of head dark, vermieulated with brownish and greenish; side of head light bluish-green, 
about 8 narrow white lines radiating from eye, one forward and downward toward snout, another to 
angle of mouth, a third downward across preorbital and just above angle of mouth bending forward 
and connecting with second, next downward and backward toward edge of preopercle, the next back- 
ward from eye and curved slightly upward and the remaining 3 upward and backward from eye; 
side of nape and downward to opercle with a few small white spots; underparts of head rich bluish- 
green; dorsal blotched and barred with whitish, green and blue; caudal with irregular crossbars of 
whitish and bluish green, the outer rays green, the tip of the tin narrowly bordered with white; distal 
end of caudal peduncle brighter green; anal purplish and greenish, with irregular reticulating white 
areas near base; ventrals light dusky, scarcely barred; pectoral dusky greenish, darker at base and in 
axil, paler on distal portion. In some examples the general color is considerably darker brownish 
and the fins are much darker. 
This species is known only from Honolulu, from which place we have examined 6 specimens 14 
to 20 inches long. 
Calotomus irradians Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Pish Comm., XIX, 1899 (Aug. SO, 1900), 58, fig. 15, Honolulu (Type, No. 12142, 
Stanford Univ. Coll. O. P. Jenkins); Jenkins, op. cit., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 467 (Honolulu). 
Head 3.1 in length; depth 2.5; eye 5.7 in head; snout 2.2; interorbital 4.2; D. ix, 11; A. i, 11; 
scales 2-24-5. 
Body somewhat elongate, compressed, dorsal outline rising in a gently sloping, nearly straight line 
to origin of dorsal, from this point descending in nearly a straight line to caudal peduncle; ventral 
outline about evenly convex; head a little longer than deep; snout long, bluntly conic; mouth 
large, horizontal, about in the axis of body; lips thin, double for about two-thirds the side, the 
lower double only a short distance; lower jaw just included; interorbital slightly convex, considerably 
broader than eye; least height of caudal peduncle a little less than half head. 
Dorsal spines flexible, rather high, nearly half head; soft dorsal 2 in head; anal similar but less 
high, longest ray 2.3 in head; caudal rounded, no rays produced; ventrals 1.5 in head, reaching half- 
way to base of third soft anal raj'; pectoral broad, its top reaching to or slightly past vertical through 
269. Calotomus cyclurus Jenkins. Fig. 144. 
Pig. 144 . — Calotomus cyclurus Jenkins; from the type. 
