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Head .'>: di'iith 3.27; eye 4; dor.sal VI-IO2; anal 10; 22 scale.s in longi- 

 tudinal series. 



Color in alcohol, uniform dark straw. All the fins except the ventrals brown- 

 isli black; ventrals very pale reddish lirown. This species is close to P. echino- 

 cei)li(ihis from which it differs in coloration, in being less elongate, having smaller 

 canines, coarser and fewer flaps, and practically no hair-like papillae on head. 



Zonogobius semidoliatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 190G, 25, p. .397, fig. 86. 

 Oohius semitlolintus Crv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 18.37, 12, p. .51. 



Two specimens, No. 05921, I and i inches long from Bora Bora, Society 

 Islands. M. C. Z. 29593 (1 specimen). 



Vailima stevensoni .Iordan & Seale. 

 Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., I'.XXi, 25, )). 398, fig. 87, 



One specimen, 2f inches long from Tipaerui Valley, Papeete, Society Islands, 



Gobius ornatus Ruppell, 



Atlas, 1828, p. 13.5. Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 1877, 6, p. 172, taf. 3, fig. A. Day, Fi.shes 

 of India, 1876, p. 294, pi. 63, fig. 1. .Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fi.sh., 1906, 25, p. 401, fig. 91. 



Nos. 08901, M. C. Z. 29530, five specimens, I to if inches, and 09057, 

 three specimens Ig to 2i inches long from Moen, Truk Group, Caroline Islands. 



No. 08938, M. C. Z. 29491 one specimen, 2| inches long from Tonga Islands. 



Two specimens, No. 09088, each Is inches long from Moen, Truk Group, 

 Caroline Islands. 



One specimen. No. 09033. M. C. Z. 29493, 1§ inches long from Suva, Fiji 

 Islands. 



The two small specimens from Moen resemble in every way the specimens 

 of same size from Suva except in having a longer and slightly more humped snout. 

 The large one differs in the same way, but has in addition a more slender caudal 

 peduncle and the white markings are not definite. 



