CARACANTHIDAE. 
Caracanthus maculatus (Gray). 
Head 2 1/6 to 2 1/4; depth 1 5/6 to 1 7/83 D. VII, 12 or 13 
Ac dT; Sh om Sey ak ce 15; 22 to 25 pores in lateral line to 
caudal base; snout 3 1/6 to 3 3/4 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 
3 7/8 to 53 maxillary 1 7/8 to 2 1/3; interorbital 6 3/4 to 7; 
head width 2 to 21/2 in its total length; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 3 to 3 3/4. Snout declivous, length 3/4 to 4/5 its 
width, Eye elevated, well before center in head length. Maxillary 
to hind eye edge; expansion 1 L/S ted 1/2 in eye. Teeth in jaws 
in villiform bands, Interorbital convex. Rakers 415, lanceolate, 
3/4 of filaments, which 1 2/5 in eye. Top of head, upper half of 
back below spinous dorsal finely spinescent; largest prickles on 
snout and top of head; body otherwise largely covered with fine pap- 
illae, more aimee and crowded about anal region. Color in alco- 
hol fuscous, nearly uniform ground color. Top of head posteriorly 
ena back finely and rather pbscurely spotted with darker, spots 
little less than pupil in size. +ength 28 to oo mm, Two from 
Fiji and 3 from Tahiti. 
