FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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ADDENDA. 
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150a. Caranx thompsoni Seale, new species. 
Depth 3.75 in length; head 3.55; free part of eye 2 in snout; a wide adipose membrane covering 
posterior part of eye and extending to pupil; snout to tip of upper jaw equal to interorbital, 3.55 in 
head; D. i— m-i-n, i, 21; an imbedded spine directed forward in front of dorsal fin, followed by 3 
prominent spines connected by web, the second of these longest, 3.50 in head, the fourth short, 2 in 
pupil and separated from the third spine by a distance greater than eye; posterior to this are 2 small 
imbedded spines not showing above the groove. A. n-r, 16, the second spine much the largest, the 
first small and fitting by the side of the larger spine; scales minute; 32 modified scutes on posterior 
half of body; lateral line curved to under the seventh dorsal ray, the curved portion 1.45 in straight 
part. 
Body rather slender, compressed, not deep; head compressed, conical, the lower jaw the longer 
and ending in a rather sharp point; maxillary reaching to below posterior part of eye, its distal end 
wide, 1.20 in eye, the supplemental bone 3 in distal width; lower jaw with a single row of small 
curved canine-like teeth; upper jaw with an outer row of small conical teeth, inside of which is a 
double row of line teeth; broad bands of villiform teeth on vomer, and 3 patches of villiform teeth on 
tongue; preopercle not denticulate; branchiostegals in 2 sets, the lower of 3 and the upper of 4 rays; 
nostrils 2 on each side, close together, the upper the larger, oval in shape; anal and dorsal fins similar, 
of equal height and ending posteriorly on a line; no detached rays; origin of anal over fifth dorsal ray; 
base of anal 3 in length of fish without caudal, its height 1.90 in head; pectoral falcate, 3.30 in length, 
reaching to below tenth dorsal ray; distance from base of caudal to base of dorsal equal to snout; 
origin of ventrals slightly posterior to base of pectoral; ventrals equal to snout; caudal well forked, 
the lobes equal. 
Color in life, dull drab, brown, the back with a wash of pea-green, the belly lighter with a wash 
of yellowish. 
In spirits the color is dull brownish, lighter below, top of head olive brown; dorsal dull bluish 
white, with darker splotches at base between the webs, rays also slightly darker, the fin with a fine 
tip of blackish; anal a lighter bluish white, splotched anteriorly with dusky; axil and base of pectoral 
earth brown, the inner color of the fin the same, the outer coloring and the tip yellowish; caudal 
dusky. 
Only one specimen known; length 33.50 inches; tj'pe, No. 3358, Bishop Museum. 
Named for John W. Thompson, artist to the Bishop Museum. 
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423a. Fierasfer homei (Richardson). 
Head 7.5 to 8 in total length, its width 2 in its length; gill-openings of moderate width, the united 
gill-membranes leaving one-half of the isthmus uncovered; vent a little in advance of the vertical from 
the root of the pectoral; teeth small, cardiform, 2 larger ones anteriorly in the upper jaw and on 
the vomer; an outer series of stronger teeth alongside of lower jaw; dorsal fin very low, but distinct; 
color yellowish, with some scattered darker dots on back. (Gunther. ) 
A very large specimen, with faint dark cross-bands, found by Walter K. Fisher in the cloaeal 
opening of Stichopus godeffroyi, a holothurian obtained by the Albatross at Honolulu. 
Oxybeles homei Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fishes 74, pi. 44, figs. 7 to 18, 1847, Tasmania. 
Oxybeles brandesii Bleeker, Verh. Botav. Genovtsch., XXIV, 24. 
Fierasfer homei, Kaup, Apodes, 158, 1856; Gunther, Cat., XV, 382, 1862 (Tasmania; Amboyna; Fiji Islands). 
