3 2/3; maxillary 2 2/3 to 2 7/8; interorbital 4 to 5. 
Elongate, partly cylindrical. Head width 1f to 2 1/8 
> 
its length. Snout width lz 
~ 
to 1 2/5 in its length. 
Eye very slightly advanced. Maxillary not quite reaching eye. 
Gill-rekers 16+33, slender, lanceolate, slightly longer than 
filaments or about 2 in eye. Scales with as many as 5 apical 
striae, also 3 or 4 above and below, but not connected; cir- 
culi parallel convex, fine, none basal. Dorsal origin about 
midway between snout tip and last anal ray base. Ventral in- 
serted close behind dorsal. In alcohol dusky lilac-brown on 
back, sides: and below whitish with brassy tint. Iris whit- 
ish. Fins pale. Two from Oahu, 150 to 180 mm. (caudels dam- 
aged). We also include five examples in the Academy 70 to 
216 mm. long, from Honolulu, for comparison. 
According to Drayton's painting "caught by the natives 
with a drift net with exceedingly fine meshes, Jan. 20, 1841. 
Hilo Bay, Hawaii. Native name Omaka. Drift net 120 feet long, 
some only 50 feet. The fish are enticed into the net by 
baiting with small fish by one man in a canoe, while two 
men in a larger one haul in the net.” 
: 
Stolephorus delicatulus (Bennett). Vru—! 
Petes Seabee hath Centos Riggins fae ove rhe Abend y 
Head 32 to 42; depth 4 to 5 4/5; D.iii, 8, 1, branched 
rays sometimes 9; A. iii, 7, 1, branched rays often 8; 
scales 30 to 33 to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 7 to 9 
scales transversely at dorsal origin; predorsal scales lz, 
sometimes 13; snout 3 1/5 to 3 $ in head from upper jaw tip; 
