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Color in alcohol pale brownish generally, but slightly dark above,, 

 or more grayish. About 6 rather broad deeper gray-brown trans- 

 verse saddles across back, each obscurely edged in front and behind 

 with deeper or more dusky, and edges of scales within each all 

 darker than ground color. Alternating are 5 paler and narrower 

 similar saddles. Alternating still, between darker and paler saddles, 

 other lighter and more obsolete streaks, mostly broken into obscure 

 pale blotches. All lateral saddles become constricted above 1. L 

 where they appear as hour-glass-shaped ocelli, lower bulge of each 

 continued down as dark streak short distance each side of abdomen. 

 Between are slightly paler streaks continued from palest alternating 

 streaks of back, though these mostly with detached appearance.. 

 Jaws with 3 broad deep brown transverse bands, paler below. Head 

 above, and cheek, mottled deep brown. Each dorsal ray with about 

 4 obscure brown blotches. Each caudal lobe with about 5 transverse 

 deep brown bands, narrower at rudimentary rays and posterior 

 wider. Fins otherwise all pale or brownish. Iris brownish. 



Length 5f inches. 



Type, No. 28,130, A. N. S. P. Hawaiian Islands. From the 

 U. S. F. Com. in 1901. 



Also Nos. 28.131 to 28,134, paratypes, same data. Head 3| to 

 3f; depth 6y to 7; D. n, 10, i or n, 11, i; A. 8, i or 9, i; scales in 

 1. 1. 60 to 62 + 4; usually 6, sometimes 5, scales above 1. 1.; usually 

 6, sometimes 7, scales below 1. 1.; usually 18 predorsal scales, some- 

 times 19 or 20; snout 4| to 4| in head; eye 6 to 6f ; maxillary 1|. 

 to If; interorbital 5| to 6J; length 5 T V to 5f inches. 



This species is closely related to Saurus variegalus Quoy and 

 Gaimard, whose plate quite agrees with the figure of Synodus varius 

 by Jordan and Evermann, 10 in having the cheek entirely covered 

 with large scales. Synodus dermatogenys differs from Synodus 

 variegalus in having the posterior portion of the cheek naked. Lace- 

 pede's Salmo varius has been considered identical with Cobitis 

 japonica Houttuyn by Jordan and Herre, 11 the latter evidently 

 having in mind the Hawaiian material identical with the figure of 

 Sy)iodus varius of Jordan and Evermann. As I shall later show that 

 Synodus sharpi Fowler is a Saurida, the present species seems justified 

 in bearing a new name. 



(dipp.a f skin; yivstov^ cheek; with reference to the lower cheek 

 being naked.) 



10 Bull. U. S. F. Com., XXIII, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 63, fig. 14. 



11 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mm., XXXII, 1907, p. 516. 



