FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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? Alutera picturata Poey, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 183, Cliba. 
Monacanthus scriptus , Gunther, Gat., VIII, 252, 1870 (Zanzibar, Pinang, Amboyna, Siam). 
Alutera scripta, Jordan <k Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer. II, 1719, pi, 260, fig. 637, 1898 (Clarion Island; Venados 
Islands); Evermann & Marsh, Fishes of Porto Rico, 261, fig. 73, 1900. 
Osbeckia scripta, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 484 (Honolulu). 
Genus 192. ALUTERA Cuvier. 
Body elongate, strongly compressed, covered 
with minute scales; snout short, the anterior 
profile convex; mouth and teeth essentially as 
in Monacanthus, but the lower jaw more pro- 
jecting, so that the lower teeth are directed 
obliquely upward and backward. Gill-opening 
an oblique slit, longer than eye, situated below 
and in advance of eye, its posterior end behind 
base of pectorals; pelvic bone long, falcate, 
movable under the skin, without spine at its 
extremity; dorsal spine small, inserted over the 
eye, rough, but without barbs; soft dorsal long 
and anal long, each of 45 to 50 rays; caudal fin 
short, shorter than head, almost truncate, the 
middle rays little produced; pectorals small. 
Size large. 
Les Alut&res Cuvier, Ri'gne Anim., ed. I, 153, 1817 ( mono - 
ceros). 
Alutera Agassiz inSpix, Pise. Brasil., 137, 1829 (monoceros) . 
Aluteria, Aluterius, etc., corrected spelling. 
347. Alutera monoceros (Osbeck). 
“ Loulu.” Fig. 185. 
Head 3.6; depth 2.4; D. i, 49; A. 51. 
Body oblong, much compressed, and skin 
with a fine velvety touch. Head very deep, 
convex both above and below; snout slightly 
produced upward; eye small, not much above 
the mouth, 5 in snout, 5.67 in head, 1.67 in 
space between its upper margin and origin of 
spinous dorsal, and 1 in space between its lower 
margin and upper margin of gill-opening; teeth 
broad, emarginate, the middle mandibular pair 
pointed; lips thin and narrow, smooth; nos- 
trils small, in front of upper part of eye; gill- 
opening rather long, oblique forward until a 
little anterior to the nostrils, 2.67 in snout and 
equal to pectoral; origin of spinous dorsal over 
anterior edge of eye, and midway between tip 
of snout and origin of soft dorsal; soft dorsal 
and anal with the anterior rays the longer, the 
longest in both fins equal; caudal damaged; pec- 
toral inserted below mouth and a little behind 
middle of eye; caudal peduncle compressed, 
equal to one-third the distance from posterior 
margin of eye to tip of snout. 
Color in alcohol, uniform brown, mottled with darker, the fins all plain-colored and pale. Not 
seen by us. 
A painting in the collection of Mrs. Dillingham made in Honolulu represents this widely diffused 
East Indian species. It bears the native name of Loulu. 
