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Opercle with brown blotch. Branchiostegals with alternate deep 
brown and white spots. Spinous dorsal with deep brown medially. 
soft dorsal with dark saddles of back reflected on base of Tin; 
which pale, otherwise its outer portion Spotted with dull brown, 
Caudal with 4 or Oo irregular dark brown cross-bars., Pectoral and 
ventral with few irregular small pale brown spots, 
Length 95 mm, 
Type No. 82,928, U.S.N.Mus., Fiji. Wilkes Exploring Expediis a. 
(Named for the Fiji Islands.) 
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Parapercis hexophtalma (Cuvier). (ify . 4o3. 
Head 3 2/5 to 3 1/2; depth 5 1/4 te 5'2/5; D. V, 21, I; A. 
17, I; scales 59 to 62 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 or 
Oo more on latter; 6 scales above lateral line, 13 to 15 below; 
12 to 14 predorsal scales; snout 2 2/5 to 2 4/5 in head from 
upper jaw tip; eye 4 3/5 to 5; maxillary 2 1/3 to 2 3/5; inter- 
orbital 7 to 8; head width 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 in total head length, 
Snout depressed, length 5/6 to 7/8 its width. Eye median in head, 
supero-lateral, 1 2/3 to 2 in snout. Maxillary not to eye, though 
little beyond hind nostril; expansion 2 1/2 to 3 in eye, Teeth 
fine, in bands in jaws, otter upper row enlarged, also outer pair 
each side above, 3 lower laterals, and pair of lower canines each 
Side; vomer with band of fine teeth, none on palatines. Interor- 
bital level, narrow, Opercle ends above in moderate spine, Pree 
opercle edge entire. Rakers 59, lanceolate, 3 in filaments, 
which 1 3/4 in eye. Scales with 13 to 16 basal radiating striae; 
