Fins uniform pale brown. Length 1065 to 390 mm, Sydney, 
Australia and Cape of Good Hope; 4 examples. We also in- 
clude 3 from Melbourne, Australia, and one from the Hawaiian 
fslands, in the Academy. 
The Melbourne examples are brown generally in alcohol, 
with pale lavender tints, especially on head and about pre- 
orbital. Lower surfaces pale to white, with creamy tinge on head 
below. Fins brownish, with dull lavender shades on membranes, 
broedly submarginal on anal and ventral membranes, Pectoral 
axil with rather broad neutral tint; also dusky lavender above 
eye along its edge. Iris whitish, apparently silvered when 
fresh. Other examples dull brownish generally, paler below, © 
with silvery-white sheen, Fins uniform dull brown, Iris 
@ull stra- brown. All show axillary dark. 
Fowler identified the Townsend example in the Academy 
from the Hawaiian Esleands, which we include above, as Sparis- 
142 
omus unicolor . , The occurrence of S. unicolor in the 
Hawaiian Islands was discounted by Jordan and AERTS | 
for no obvious reason, apparently other than that they failed 
to obtain other material from the islends, They further con- 
fuse matters by placing the record with Monotexis grandoculis 
(Forskal), a very different fish, We therefore insist upon 
its original status, as its occurrence in Hawaii has never been 
demonstrated as either improbable or Wg Ye 
142 Proc,.Acad,Nat.Sci.Phila.,1900,p.502, 
Jas Bull. U.S.Fish Com., vol.23, pt. 1, 1905(1905), Pe 244, 
