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Osa 
MONACANTHIDAE. 
her ~ 3 > oe 
Cantherines sandwichtensis (Quoy and Gaimard). ie 
Head 3 1/3; depth 2; D.II-37; A. 32; P. i, 14; eye 4 1/2 
in head; interorbital 2 7/8; head width 17/8. Eye 1 7/8 
in gill-opening, which extends forward nearly whole length of 
eye, Body rough velvety. Caudal peduncle with 2 pairs of 
strong short antrorse spines. Dorsal spine with front sur- 
face finely asperous, no denticles on edges; its insertion 
over front half of eye, 11/6 in head, Color in alcohol uni- 
form mummy-brown, Teeth white. “ength 234 mm, Tahiti. 
Compared with smaller Hawaiian examples, in the Academy, 
we find the dorsal and anal very pale in the latter, also 
pectoral variably pale, and oe have caudal end whitish, 
chinens Osbee ue 
SRE erten B3y- 
Monacanthus 
Head 3 3/4; depth 1 2/5; D. I-32; A. 32; P. 13; snout 
1 1/10 in head; eye 3 3/4; interorbital 3 1/3; head width 
21/4. Long ventral flap long as head, measured to upper 
end of gill-opening. Body with asperous spindles, fine on 
head. Caudal peduncle with 2 rows of ibpoess spines, upper 
row of 4 and lower of 3, Dorsal spine with row of spines 
only along each hind edge laterally arid spines decurved, 
Color in alcohol vandyke-brown above and generally with larger 
irregular paler areas. Two dusky-brown blotches along bases 
of soft dorsal and anal, and latter with fine waved longitudinal 
