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Hymenooephalua striatulus^ Gilbert 
Hymenocephalus £t£latuliis Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm,, vol. 23, 
pt. c $ p* 665, fig* 259, 1903 (1905) (type locality t off south 
west Oahu, 192 to 352 fathoms; Kauai, 55 to 362 fathoms). — 
Gilbert and Kubbs , Proc. U. S. Hat. Mus., vol. 51, p. 145, 1916 
(reference); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 100, vol. 1, p. 521, 1920 
(diagnosis in key). . —Fowler , Mem. Eishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 87, 
1928 (Hawaiian Islands). 
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Depth 7 to 7 2/5; head 4 4/6 to 5 l/5, width 2. Snout to 
eye 3 l/2 to 3 4/5 in head, 1 l/5 to 1 l/3 in orbit; eye 3 l/3 to 3 
3/5 in head, 1 in snout, 1 to 1 l/8 times interorbital; orbit 3 in 
head; preoral profile oblique, length 5 l/3 to 5 l/2; maxillary 
reaches opposite hind edge of orbit, length from front end 1 4/5 to 
2 in head; no barbol; teeth minute, in narrow bands in jaws, lower 
band narrower; interorbital 3 l/5 to 4 in head, low, depressed irreg¬ 
ularly. Gill rakers 5+19 short clavate spinuliferous tubercles on 
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second arch, l/2 of gill filaments, which l/4 of orbit. 
Scales (pockets) 68 in lateral line; 4 above, 5 below, 8 
predorse1 forward opposite hind eye edge. Scales with 13 or 14 irreg¬ 
ular series of short apical spinules, last not reaching beyond scale 
edge; cirouli moderate, complete. 
D. LI, 9 to II, 11—70, second simple ray entire, slender, 1 
2/5 in head; interdorsal space 1 l/2 to 1 2/3; A. 80, fin height 
3 1/5 to 3 1/2; pectoral rays I, 14 or I, 15, fin 1 3/5 to 1 3/4 in 
head; ventral I, 13 or I, 14, fin 1 l/5 to 1 1/4, first ray ending in 
