conie, length 4/5 its width. Maxillary to eye, narrow, teeth 
strong, moderate, in front of jaws, uniserial, smaller on sides 
of back, Téngue rounded, free, Interorbital narrow bony ridge, 
Rakers about 1 5 short rudimentary points, greatly shorter 
than filaments, which 2 in eye. Sides and top of head evidently 
scaly (now naked) and scales about ventral and below pectoral 
much smaller than elsewhere; 15 or 16 basal radiating striae on 
scales: apical denticles 26 to 30; circuli coarse. Color in alco- 
hol dull uniform brown, Traces of several transverse dark cross- 
bars on caudal, Length 30 mm, One from Maui. 
Ruppell's priginal figure”/5 shows a very long spinous dorsal, 
also ventrals reaching beyond anal origin, both characters not found 
in our example. No marginal preopercle spines are shown, whereas 
our example has 5 rudimentary points. Rippell also gives 12 soft 
dorsal rays, 
Jordan and Seale figure a Samoan example” © with © rather 
strong preopercular spines. Our example shows very much smaller 
scales on the breast than their figure gives, 
ett 
Atlas Reis. Naval Af., Fische, 1828, p. 138, Pl. 34, fig.4, 
Massana, 
276. Bull. Bur.Fishes, vol.25,1905(1906), p.385, P1.56,fig. 1. 
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