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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Color in life (No. 03367), vitriol green, each scale on sides edged with brown-drab; belly livid 
lavender drab, the scales with small round blue spots on side as far up as pectoral; a gray drab area 
behind head reaching nearly to end of pectoral, covered with small blue spots and navy blue streaks; 
lower part of head violet with elaborate sky-blue markings, opercular flap bright golden green, stripe 
and ring about eye blue; snout violet, then brown with a light green area bordered by sky blue, then 
a golden brown area similarly bordered; dorsal with 2 stripes of bluish green, 2 of golden brown, 
the edge clear blue; caudal clear blue, the rays dusky; anal like dorsal, the stripes broader; pectoral 
light blue, the upper rays and a stripe across base bright blue; a golden brown shade at base; caudal 
bright golden brown, the outer and inner rays bright blue. 
Color in spirits, body bright greenish, edges of the scales purplish, under parts paler, postocular 
region, upper half of opercle and region under and above pectoral purplish with numerous small round 
green spots, those on posterior portion of area modified into irregular green lines; snout purplish ; a 
broad purplish saddle bounded by a narrow blue-green border over middle portion of snout reaching 
level of mouth on each side; a narrow blue-green line connecting eyes and extending around front of 
eye and backward upon cheek for an eye’s diameter; 2 short postorbital blue-green streaks; 2 or 
3 curved green streaks on cheek; lower lip with a broad blue-green border covering entire width 
Fig. 149. — Callyodon perspicillatus (Steindachner); after Steindachner. 
back to bases of branch iostegals, bending upward to angle of snout, and then continuing upward and 
backward across cheek in a wavy blue-green stripe; a narrow stripe of same color beginning on side 
of head, under this continuing downward and backward to near edge of subopercle, where it turns 
backward, inclosing 3 small areas and then extends upward along edge of preopercle to middle of 
cheek; middle line of branchiostegal membranes blue-green; a few thin green streaks and spots under 
base of pectoral; dorsal fin with a scallopy blue-green base, a median stripe and a border of same color, 
the median stripe separating 2 yellowish purple or whitish stripes; anal similar, the basal blue-green 
streak narrower and broken up into scallopy spots, the median green streak much broader, the green 
border also broken ; caudal bluish green, the edges brightest; ventrals creamy white, the edges pale 
green, the inner edge narrowly blue-green; pectoral purplish dusky, upper edge bright blue-green. 
This is one of the largest and most beautiful species of Scaridx occurring among the Hawaiian 
Islands. It reaches a length of nearly 2 feet, is fairly common, and is highly esteemed by the natives. 
We have 6 specimens from Honolulu and the Albatross secured it at Puako Bay. It is known also 
from Johnston Island. 
Scams (Scarus) per spic illatas Steindachner, Denks. Ale. Wiss. Wien, XLI, 16, pi. IV, fig. 1, 1S79, Sandwich Islands. 
Scams perspicillatus , Smith & Swain, Proe. l T . S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 134 (Johnston Island); Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 
XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 470 (Honolulu), Snyder, op. cit., XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 531 (Puako Bay). 
