FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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This is the most abundant species of the family in the Hawaiian Islands, as shown by the very 
large series of specimens in our collection, 197 from Honolulu and 9 from the reef at Waikiki. The 
specimens are all small, the length ranging from 1 to 2.8 inches. 
Sebastapistes strongia, Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 62, 1877 (Honolulu); Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila. 1900, 515 
(Sandwich Islands) ; not Scorpama strongia C. & V., from Strong Island, Carolines. 
Sebastapistes coniorta Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 495, fig. 39, Honolulu (type, No. 50693, 
0. S. N. M.; coll. O. P. Jenkins); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 536 (Honolulu). 
Fig. 200. — Sebastapistes coniorta Jenkins; from the type. 
381. Sebastapistes g-alactacma Jenkins. Fig. 201. 
Head 2.25 in length; depth 2.7; eye 3.5 in head; snout 3.7; interorbital 6.5; D. xii, 10; A. iii, 5; 
P. 16; V. i, 5; scales 7-42-12. 
Body elongate, compressed, greatest depth under first dorsal spines; back not elevated; snout 
short, blunt; mouth rather large, only slightly oblique, jaws about equal; mandible rather large, 2 in 
head; maxillary large, distally expanded, 1.75 in eye; teeth small, in rather broad bands on jaws, 
vomer, and palatines; tongue rather broad, thick, pointed, little free in front; lips rather thin; nasal, 
preorbital, supraorbital, postorbital, tympanic, parietal, and nuchal spines present; no coronal spines; 
series of spines from behind eye above opercle; 2 large preorbital spines; a series of spines below eye 
across cheek ending in a large spine on edge of preopercle, below 4 others; opercle with 2 spines; 
fourth dorsal spine longest, 2 in head; third dorsal ray longest, 2.1; second anal spine longest, curved, 
1.7; first anal ray longest, 2; caudal rounded, 1.6; pectoral rounded, 1.3; ventral 1.5; caudal peduncle 
compressed, 4. 
Color in alcohol (type), pale or whitish brown, a little darker on the back; upper surface and 
side variegated with darker brown; head and trunk marked with very many small whitish dots; a 
deep brown blotch on outer portion of spinous dorsal between fifth and ninth spines; soft dorsal with 
several brown wavy lines; caudal with several pale brown cross-bars; pectoral with brown and white 
spots on base; ventrals pale with white dots. 
