6 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 3 above 
to soft dorsal origin; 13 predorsal scales; snout 3 1/10 in 
head; eye 4 2/3; maxillary 4 1/4; interorbital 4 1/8; head 
width 2 2/5, Snout conic, width 11/5 its length. Rakers 
5 9, about 3 in filaments, which 1 2/3 in eye, Scales with 
2} basal radiating striae, apical 52. Color in alcohol faded 
dull brownish, head paler; each scale with pale stréak:- or spots 
medially, forming even longitudinal rows, which narrow and small- 
er on smaller scales; dorsals with 2 rows of longitudinal pale 
spots, which close-set, large basal, and also over rayed fin 
additional 2 parallel Similar rows; anal with 3 longitudinal 
pale bands, basal broadest; fine dots in head above of white, 
below pale with close-set large eye, Yength 103 to 188 mm, 
One from the Hawaiian Islands. We also include 2 dry skins in 
the Academy, same locality, collected by J. K. Townsend, 
hf 
Anampses caeruleopunctatus Ruppell. A te 
Read 2 4/8; deptm 27a; Oo, IK, Te, Ag A. TIT, .142, 4; 
scales 25 in lateral line to caudal base and one more tabular 
on latter; 7 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin; 
9 above to soft dorsal origin, 11 below to spinous anal origin; 
7 predorsal scales to occiput medially; snout 2 4/5 in head; eye 
7 3/43; maxillary 4 1/4; interorbital 3 2/5, 
