finely with brownish. Rictus brown. Gill-opening not darker 
then adjoining region. Length 3435 mm. This nominal form 
shows an altogether more finely mottled type of coloration 
than the first example noted above. Also the dentition 
varies, as the upper outer lateral teeth sare quite regular 
and the large inner depressible ones are 10 or ll, besides 
the slightly biserial vomerine row. Gunther expressly says”° 
"the teeth are biserial except those on the vomer. 
The type of Lycodontis parvibranchialis Fowler, No. 16, 
483. A. N. S. P., was also obtained in the Hawaiian Islands. 
It shows: Heed 7 3/5; depth at vent 17; snout 5 in head; eye 
64; gape 2 1/8; interorbital 6 1/5. Head width 3 3/5 its 
length. Snout trifle longer than wide. Kye little nearer 
rictus than snout tip. Mouth not completely closing. An outer 
a v te 
26 Cat. Fishes Grit. Mus., vol, 8, 1870; p. ‘100. 
“ a en ee EE EE Me TEIN a 8 ee I Os ONE A LPR OE RR I Ae 3 A 
series of erect teeth in each jaw, subequel, irregularly 
biserial behind front of eye; above well before eye 3 long- 
itudinal rows of 3 or 4 teeth, enlarged, conic, slightly 
barbed, depressible; row of enlarged depressible teeth in- 
side each side of upper jaw beginning at eye front and ex- 
tending far back as upper laterals; vomerine teeth begin 
also opposite eye front, short, conic, subequal; below 3 
pairs of large depressible teeth in front. Dorsal united 
at last third between hind eye edge and gill-opening. 
Color in alcohol: largely dppe warm brown, wit 
regular longitudinal spots about equal to pupil, none large. 
Interspaced over body between pale spots many large ill-defined 
