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the eye, blunt; nioutli medium, maxillary hardly reaching a vertical from the 

 front bonier of the orbit ; teeth small in narrow bands on jaws and vomer and 

 in a single series on the palatines ; eye large, one-fourth of the head. The 

 curve of the lateral line is moderately strong and regular until it reaches 

 the straight portion, near a vertical from the sixth ray of the second dorsal ; 

 there are thirty-seven broad, sharply keeled plates in the posterior section. 

 Fins of medium size ; longest ray of either spinous dorsal, soft dorsal or anal 

 less than twice the orbital length; excepting half a dozen of the anterior soft 

 ones, the rays of dorsals and anal are short. Breast naked. 



Color olivaceous to grayish yellow on the back, lighter below ; back crossed 

 by five broad vertical bands of black, descending to about the middle of the 

 flank, the posterior one of which continues back on the top of the caudal 

 pedicel to a dark area on the bases of the caudal rays. The first band crosses 

 the spinous dorsal, which is black; the second passes through the space be- 

 tween the two dorsals ; the third lies below the highest portion of the second 

 dorsal, and the fourth and fifth lie below the short rays of the same fin. The 

 fins, except the first dorsal, are light colored with dusky margins. There is 

 a small and comparatively faint spot at the upper angle of the operculum. No 

 band through the eye. 



Captured at Suva, Fiji Islands. 



Percis tetracanthus La C. 



Br. r. 6 ; D. 3 + 20 ; A. 17 ; V. 5 ; P. 18 ; LI. 63 ; Ltr. 8 + 14. 

 The orbits are black; there is a large spot of black below the base of each 

 pectoral and a black spot in the anterior part of the lower half of the caudal. 

 Suva Reef, Fiji Islands. 



Gobius atriclypeus, sp. nov. 



Plate 3, Fig. 1. 



D. 6 -f 12 ; A. 12 ; LI. 25; Ltr. 10. 



Body compressed, elongate, depth one-seventh and caudal fin near two- 

 sevenths of the total length. Head about one-fifth of the total ; interorbital 

 space very narrow. Snout short, two-thirds as long as the eye, pointed as 

 seen from the side, subtruncate as seen from above. Mouth wide, oblique, 

 rising steeply forward; maxillary subtending anterior one-third of eye. Teeth 

 small, in bands, with one or two canines at each side above and below. Eyes 

 large, more than one-third of the head, prominent, very close together on the 

 top of the head, longer than the snout. Occiput covered with scales, to the 

 ridges behind the orbits. Scales large, ctenoid with minute teeth. Fin rays 

 flexible, elongate. First dorsal spine above the axil of the pectoral ; depth of 

 first dorsal less than that of the body ; height of second dorsal greater than 



