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of cross Inirs on the l)i)dy and tail as well as small ocelli; dorsals and pectorals 

 show traces of spots; ventrals ])lain; anal with dusky ]Huictulations; first 

 dorsal spine not produced, but last rays of second dorsal and middle rays of 

 caudal produced. In the female the colors are similar to the above, but with 

 what appears to have been a white-edged black blotch on spinous dorsal; the 

 rays are now detached and this mark is not definite; second dorsal and caudal 

 not so much produced. Neither specimen shows traces of spots on anal. 



BLENNIDAE. 



Enneapterygius atriceps Menkins). 

 Triplerygion alria/is Jenki.ns, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comiu., l!)0;i, 22, p. .50."), fig. 4(i, 



One specimen slightly over one inch long from Ponapi, Caroline Islands. 



This specimen agrees so closely with the type specimens of E. atriceps, 

 with which it has been compared, that we identify it as that species, although it 

 differs somewhat in the vertical fin counts. Head 3.3; eye 3.25; dorsal III- 

 XIII-10; A. I, 17; scales 32 or 33. The coloration is the same as in the type. 



Hypleurochilus vaillanti Jukd,\.\ & Seale. 



Bull. I". S. Bur. Fish., I'.llKi, 25, p. 42(1. 



One specimen, M. C Z. 29377, fs inch long from Lagoon at Fakarava, 

 Paumotu Islands. 



One specimen, lio inches long from I'dnapi, Caroline Islands. 



An examination of the type, No. 51788, U. S. N. M., from Pag(j Pago, 

 Samoa, shows that it has the dorsal XII, 18 (not XII, 15, as given in description 

 by Jordan & Seale), and the anal 19 (not 17). Our sj^ecimens agree with this, 

 except that thei'e appear to be 20 anal rays in the smaller specimen. 



Alticus periophthalmus (Civier & V.\i,knciennes). 



.loKD.v.N & Se.\le, Bull. V. S. Bur. Fish., HH)(i, 25, ]). 422. 



Saldriiix j>eno]>IUkul)niis Cuv. & V.\L., Hist. Nat. Poiss., IfSliG, 11, p. 2;j0 (311), pi. 328. GiiNTHEit, 

 Fischo iler Siidsee, 1877, 6, p. 207, taf. 114, figs. D, E. Day, Fishes of India, 1876, p. 333, pi. 6i), fij;. 5. 



No. 0590(5, a specimen 2i inches long from Makenio, Paumotu Islands. 



