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at each side of it, and at each side of the three there is a line of much larger 

 dots. The beak is black and the black extends back on each side of the head 

 to below the eye. The ui>])er jaw and the orbits are black. The crown is 

 dotted and puncticulate with black. 

 Suva, Fiji Islands. 



Zenarchopterus maculosus, sp. nov. 



Plate 5, Fig. 4. 



D. II ; A. 10; LI. 44; Ltr. 8. 



Length of head two and two-fifths times in the total length, or two and one- 

 sixth times in the length to the caudal. Length of lower jaws, forward of 

 intermaxillary, one-fourth of the total without the caudal. Intermaxillaries 

 as wide as the eye, wider than long, rounded in front. A tabular nostril. 

 Eye large, one-eighth of the entire head, little less than supraorbital width, 

 equal width of upper jaws. Beak with a dermal expansion below and a pro- 

 longation at the tip. Dorsal in the hindmost one-fourth of the total length ; 

 first ray forward of that of the anal ; base less than two-thirds as long as the 

 head. Base of anal little more than half the length of that of the dorsal ; first 

 ray of the fin below second ray of dorsal. First ray of ventral at hindmost 

 one-third of the total ; fin not reaching the anal. Bases of ventrals little 

 nearer to bases of pectorals than to base of caudal. Caudal rounded. 



Black of jaws extending on the side of the face to below the eye. A broad 

 band of blackish from opercle to base of caudal on the middle of the flank, 

 inferiorly fading to round spots in each of which there is a central dot of light 

 color, white or bluish. Back and belly lighter, dotted with brown. Dorsal 

 blackish toward its margins. 



Suva, Fiji Islands. 



Gymnothorax nebulosus Ahl; Bl. Schn. 

 Suva Reef, Fiji Islands. 



Gymnothorax pictus Ahl; Bl. Schx. 

 Suva Reef; Nukulau Island, Fiji Islands. 



Syngnathus conspicillatus Jex. 



Plate 5, Fig. 2. 



Three miles south of Suva lightship. 



