8 or % predorsal scales; snout 3 to 3 1/8 in heed; eye 5 to 
5 2/5; maxillary 3 1/2 to 3 4/5; interorbital 4 1/8 to 4 1/2; 
head width 2 1/3 to 2 5/6. Snout conic, width 11/5 to 11/4 
its length. Rakers 7412, lanceolate, 4 in filaments, latter 
11/5 in eye. Scales with basal radiating striae 26 to 28, 
apical 24 to 26; scales in lateral line usually with 3 branches, 
last with 5, 
Color in alcohol dull brownish generally, abdomen and sides 
paler, Over back 7 vertical pale bands, all scales in darker 
interspaces Win dare basal bar, which now showing through over- 
lapping scales produces finely barred pattern of vertical lines. 
Head marked with short bars, streaks and spots of brown, small- 
er and more crowded on smaller example, but in all cases forming 
dark angular line directed downward in preorbital. Fins all pale 
brown, Small brown spot at base of each dorsal Spine and ray, and 
bleck blotch over first and second spinous dorsal membranes, Small 
brown spot at pectoral origin. Anal with sub-basal narrow pale 
brown line its entire length, Length 98 to 140 mm,(caudal damaged), 
on be Bi" ae - ) ‘ 
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Our examples are of interest as the first Hawatian are ones 
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Head 3; depth 3 1/5; D. Vii Gos .. As Il, diy, t3 seales 
25 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 3 scales 
above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 2 to soft dorsal 
