933 . 
MaIcxoocephalus h aw ai iensis Gilbert 
Malacocephalus hawaiiensis Gilbert, Bull* U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, 
pt» 2, p. 677, fig. 265, 1903 (1905) (type locality t off south 
coast of Oahu; Pailolo Channel; Bird Island; Kauai; Maui; north 
west Oahu; 165 to 684 fathoms)* — Gilbert and Kubbs , Proc* U. S. 
Nat. Mus., vol. 51, p. 145, 1916 (reference); Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., ^o. 100, vol* 1, p* 542, 1920 (measurements of paratypes). 
— Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 87, 1928 (Hawaiian Islands). 
Malacocephalus laevis (not Linnaeus ) Gilbert and Cramer, Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., vol. 19, p. 432, 1897 (Hawaiian Islands, 295 to 351 
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fathoms)• 
Depth 7 to 7 1/5; head 5 to 6, width 1 3/4 to 1 7/8. Snout 
to eye 3 l/2 to 4 in head; eye 3 l/8, 1 l/8 in snout, 1 l/8 in inter¬ 
orbital; orbit 3 l/4 in head, 1 l/8 in snout, 1 1/8 in interorbital; 
maxillary reaches 3/4 to 4/5 in ejre, length from front end 2 to 2 1/8 
in head; preoral vertically oblique in profile, length 4 to 5 in heed; 
mandibular barbel 1 1/4 to 1 2/5 in eye; teeth in villiform bands in 
jaws, each with strong outer row of curved or enlarged canines; inter¬ 
orbital 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 in head, low, widely or slightly convex. Gill 
rakers 2+7 short knobs on second arch, l/3 of gill filaments, which 
1/2 of eye. 
