obscure saddle on upper caudal peduncle from last dorsal 
rays; dark bands all reflected on dorsal fin bases and fins 
otherwise all deep brownish; blackish axillary pectoral 
blotch forward. Length 27 to 185 mm, Eleven examples, of 
which 4 labeled Oahu, and the others without definite lo- 
cality probably from Maul? JArL« br carr Hp t4 JX thar: oto 
7 mits bh / atetel Paprarr wnwel { “¢ CAAA) T babslle « AL Ld Afrrr , 
i Considerable wuriation in the SolorVor alcoholic ma- 
terial is noticeable. More recent specimens show body gener- 
ally dull or pale bluish-gray above,fading whitish below; 
dark vertical bands constant in location though variably wide, 
as in adults some extend width of 5 scales with 3 or 4 scales 
of pale area intervening; in young dark bands at least broad 
ag pale areas in their upper extent; some adults show them 
quite pale or bleached out below, sometimes not even extend- 
ing below eye; last band on caudal peduncle forward may be 
very faint or even nearly absent in old examples; dark soft 
dorsal and anal blotch a character of age, as absent in very 
young, also variable, as it may be extended forward on the 
fin in a dark streak or simply isolated as a blotch; terminal 
portion or edges or vertical fins more or less dusky. 
We have examined and included the Hawaiian examples in 
the Academy, of which 3 were wrongly recorded as A. sexfasci- 
atus dy Fowler. These were obtained by Townsend and Jones, 
184 
Proc ,.Acad,Nat.sci.Phila.,1900, p. 504. 
