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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
This species reaches a length of about 9 or 10 inches, and is known only from the 5 specimens 
recorded by Dr. Jenkins and others obtained bv the Albatross at Honolulu. 
Scants ahula Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XIX, 1899 (Aug. 30, 1900), 61, fig. 19, Honolulu (Type, No. 6142, Stanford Univ. , 
Coll. O. P. Jenkins); ibid., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 470 (Honolulu) ; Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 531 (Honolulu). ' 
280. Callyodon bennetti (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Plate 45. « 
Head 2.8 in length; depth 3.25; eye 5.2 in head; snout 2.6; preorbital 6; interorbital 3.2; D. ix, 
10; A. hi, 9; P. 13; scales 2-24-6. 
Body rather short, moderately deep, not greatly compressed; head longer than deep, compressed; 
snout subconic, lower jaw included; lips covering about half of each jaw; dental plates white; no 
posterior canine teeth; eye high, entirely above upper base of pectoral, slightly anterior; caudal 
peduncle 2.5 in head. 
Origin of dorsal a little posterior to upper base of pectoral, spines flexible, of about equal length 
and equal to rays, the longest spine 2.5 in head; longest anal ray 2.75 in head; caudal slightly rounded; 
ventrals 2 in head, not reaching vent by 0.75 of their length; pectoral broad, 1.6 in head. 
Scales large, smooth; scales on cheek in 3 rows, upper with 6 scales, next with 6, lower with 2; 
2 rows of scales on opercle, its lower edge with a single row; lateral line interrupted, 17 pores in 
upper part, which ends on the first row of scales beyond the last dorsal ray, then drops 2 rows and 
continues along middle of caudal peduncle to base, there being 7 pores in the shorter part. 
Color in alcohol, brownish olivaceous, edges of scales darker; 2 rather distinct white stripes 
from near ba^e of pectoral along lower part of side, disappearing before reaching vertical of anal origin; 
fins all plain olivaceous, scarcely mottled; tip of caudal not white. 
This species was originally described from the Hawaiian Islands. The collection made by Dr. 
Wood at Honolulu in 1898 contains a single specimen, No. 2081, 5.25 inches long. Also found in Samoa. 
Scarus bennetti Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIV, 270, 1839, Sandwich Islands; Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 
XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 19031, 470 (Honolulu). 
281. Callyodon paluca (Jenkins). “ Palukaluka." Fig. 153. 
Head 3 in length; depth 2.8; eye 5.5 in head; snout 2.75; interorbital 2.9; D. ix, 10; A. in, 9; P. 14; 
scales, 2-24-6. 
Body deep, compressed; dorsal and ventral outline evenly arched; head longer than deep, com- 
pressed, bluntly conic; lower jaw included; teeth white, no posterior canine; upper lip double, its 
entire length and covering little more than half the dental plate, lower lip covering half of lower plate; 
lower edge of eye slightly above upper base of pectoral. 
a Scarus bennetti on plate. 
