of both fins. Anals blackish brown, edge nerrowly whitish. 
Pectorel, ventral and caudal, other than noted, pale brownish, 
In young dark brown upper band extends below until narrow 
whitish line separates it along entire medien exis of body, 
Also another pale line from lower part of cheek extending back 
below pectoral base and thence elong lower surface exactly sim- 
{lar, though reversed, to uppermost pale dividing dorsal line, 
It likewise extends out and excloses a similar dark blotch on 
lower half of caudal basally. Also traces of still lower pale 
line along lower side of abdomen and just above ventral base, 
then back indistinctly along most of forward base of anal. 
Pale band below and forward to eye, quite broed including most 
of preorbital region, All dark bands on head entirely separated 
by median pale line. Length 98 to 330 mm, One from Hilo, one 
from Maui and 2 from Oahu, We also included 2 Hawaiian examples 
in the Academy. 
A painting by J. Drayton gives Hilo Bay, caught by natives 
in net, January 23, 1841. Its back and head above blackish- 
brown, brick-red tinge on heed; narrow pinard-yellow band from 
occiput close along back to upper surface of caudal peduncle, 
margined each side side narrowly with red; another narrow 
band from snout medially embraces upper half of eye perallel, 
though only about far as seventh dorsal ray; third band white, 
little wider, parallel, from front side of snout close below eye 
across opercle, then superior at caudal basally or along just 
