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Another example had a bright scarlet and yellow stripe, from tip of snout through eye and on 
back, being distinct as a scarlet line in each of the dark quadrate blotches to base of caudal; caudal 
yellowish, with pearly blue cross streaks of spots; lower lobe red, the distal half black; spinous dorsal 
black, edged with scarlet; base and axil of pectoral golden. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown, a little darker on head; about 8 broad brown saddle-like blotches 
across back; top of head brownish; a white line running from tip of snout to eye, and continued on 
postocular region above opercle; spinous dorsal with a large blackish blotch on middle and basal 
portion; about 10 blackish spots in a single series along upper portion of soft dorsal; caudal with 6 
vertical series of whitish dots; anal, pectoral, and ventral pale. 
This species, described originally from Honolulu, is quite common at that place, and we have 
specimens also from Hilo. Twenty -two examples examined are 4 to 5.5 inches long. 
Percis schauinslandi Steindachner, Anzeiger Ak. Wiss. Wien, No. XVI, June 27, 1900, 175, Honolulu; Steindachner, Denks. 
Ak. Wiss. Wien, LXX, 1900, 496, pi. in, fig. 5 (Honolulu). 
Parapercis pterostigma Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XIX, 1899 (June 8, 1901), 402, fig. 15, Honolulu (Type, No. 49701, 
U. S. N. M. Coll. O. P. Jenkins). 
Osurus schauinslandi , Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 505 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 
19, 1904), 536 (Honolulu). 
Genus 223. NE0PERCIS Steindachner. 
Palatines with teeth ; dorsal scarcely notched, the middle spines not longer than the posterior 
ones; dorsal rays v, 23; A. 20; scales about 60; otherwise essentially as in Parapercis. 
The single Hawaiian species of this genus is fully described in Section II. 
Parapercis Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., XIII, 1883, 1072 ( ramsayi ); not of Bleeker. 
Neopercis Steindachner, Fis-’he Japans, III, 1884, 212 (ramsayi). 
Genus 224. BEMBROPS Steindachner. 
Head strongly depressed, the snout spatulate; mouth long, subhorizontal; teeth in jaws and on 
vomer and palatines; maxillary with a fleshy flap or barbel at tip; eyes very large, half lateral; opercle 
with 2 spines; angle of preopercle with 2 small spines, at least in Japanese species; preorbital entire; 
gill-opening very long, with 7 branchiostegals; pseudobranchiae present; ventrals jugular; dorsal fins 2, 
well separated; belly flattened, back convex; scales rather large, finely ctenoid. 
Small fishes inhabiting depths in Asia and America. The single Hawaiian species fully described 
in Section II. 
Bembrops Steindachner, Sitzgber. Wien, LXXIV, i, 211 (Ichth. Beitr.), V, 1876, 163 ( caudimacula ). 
Hypsicometes Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, 347 ( gobioides ). 
Bathypercis Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, LXII, 1893, 2, 177 (platyrhynchus) . 
Genus 225. PTEROPSARON Jordan & Snyder. 
Body subcylindrical, depressed anteriorly, covered with large cycloid scales; lateral line continuous; 
head depressed, flattened anteriorly; snout produced, broadly spatulate; mouth large, the jaws sub- 
equal; maxillary without barbel; teeth small, on jaws, vomer and palatines smooth; eyes very large, 
largely vertical in range, separated by a very narrow ridge; suborbital very narrow; cheeks and opercles 
scaly; preopercle rounded, entire, but with mucous tubes near its edge; opercle with a partly concealed 
spine before its membranous tip; gillrakers obsolete; gill-membranes separate, free from the isthmus; 
dorsal fins separate, the first short, but sometimes greatly elevated; second similar to anal; caudal 
convex; ventrals i, 5, well separated, a rhombic area before them, inserted before pectorals, the inner 
rays longest; pectorals normal; lateral line simple, median. This genus is allied to Bembrops, from 
which it differs in the absence of a fleshy flap on the maxillary. 
The single Hawaiian species of this genus is fully described In Section II. 
Pteropsaron Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, 470 ( evolans ). 
