466 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
rather short, blunt, rounded; mouth large, oblique; mandible large, slightly produced; maxillary 
large, expanded distally, where its greatest width is 1.8 in eye; teeth in broad villiform bands, in 
jaws and on vomer, none on palatines; tongue rather broad, sharp pointed, free; lips rather thick and 
fleshy; seventh dorsal spine longest, 1.5; penultimate spine 4; dorsal spines free for greater part of 
their length, the membrane extending for nearly half their length posteriorly; fifth dorsal ray longest, 
1.6; second anal spine slightly longer than second, 2.3 in head; caudal rounded, 3; pectoral rather short, 
reaching below base of sixth dorsal ray; fifth and sixth rays longest, the lower rays not as long, and 
membranes incised so that extremities are free for short distance; ventral 1.25 in head, spine 2.25; 
caudal peduncle compressed, its depth 3.6; scales rather large, ctenoid; nasal, preocular, supraocular, 
postocular, tympanic, coronal, parietal, and nuchal spines present; a ridge of spines below eye across 
cheek ending in a spine on edge of preopercle, and below 2 more spines; a ridge of spines from eye 
above opercle; scales rather large, ctenoid; lateral line sloping obliquely to base of caudal. 
Fig. 204. — Dendrochirus chloreus Jenkins; from the type. 
Color in life (No. 03446), 6 vertical bands on side dark olive, spaces between dirty white, and red; 
under surface of head rosy; round dark spots on body under opercular flap; axil and spot on inner 
surface of base of pectoral dark olive; markings on spinous dorsal dark olive and dull red; soft dorsal 
with transverse rows of olive spots surrounded by red, membranes transparent; caudal similarly col- 
ored; anal dark olive; pectoral dark olive with transverse rows of whitish spots on rays; ventrals alter- 
nating olive and dirty white; iris red. 
Color in alcohol, more or less brown; side of trunk with about 6 deep brown vertical bars, the last 
extending down on base of anal; head deep brown above, side pale; a deep brown streak from below 
eye; angle of preopercle, and region about, dark brown; blotch above base of pectoral blackish brown; 
a brown hand across chest; spinous dorsal pale brownish, each spine with about 3 broad brownish 
cross-bands; soft dorsal blackish brown; rays of soft vertical fins with 5 or 6 series of blotches or 
spots; pectoral and ventral blackish, with a number of pale cross-bands; edge of each scale very 
narrowly pale brown. Described from an example (No. 03446) 6.2 inches long, taken at Honolulu. 
Known only from Honolulu. 
