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Three other specimens, luunbor 05899, 21 to 3i inches long from Fakara\a, 

 Paumotu If^ilands. 



One of these specimens, 3j inches long, has head 4.85 in bodj'; dejjth 5.23; 

 eye 4 in head; dorsal XII (I), 24; anal 24; crest on head, dorsal higher than the 

 dorsal of another specimen 28 inches long, which has head 4.59; depth 5.10; 

 eye 3.85; dorsal XIII, 24; anal 24; no crest on head. 



Color of specimen 2l inches long without crest; comparing this specinuMi 

 with 08915 it is much darker in color being light brown, abdomen abruptly white, 

 same markings on body but not so dusky on tail, and lacking the obliciue black 

 bar; throat and chin dusky; spots at base of soft dorsal more distinct, and 

 paired cross bars less distinct ; spinous dorsal similar to l)ody ; traces of oblique 

 light lines on soft dorsal as in S. rivulalus. 



The 31 inch specimen with crest and body more elongate has the color 

 generally darker, body markings less distinct than the specimen, 2\ inches long 

 without crest; light bars on soft dorsal a little more distinct; a narrow dusky 

 margin on soft dorsal, with a narrow border of white; anal plain light brownish 

 with dusky margin, at least in front; caudal same as body with a darker upper 

 antl lower margin and central rays, most intense at base, rays tipped with white. 



Salarias edentulus fBujcii & Schneider). 



GuNTHER, Fischf der SiUlsfp, 1S7~, 6, j). 20ti, taf. 117, fig. A. .Jordan A: Seale, Bull. V . S. Bur. 

 Fish., 1906, 25, p. 429. 



Blenniu!i edenlaliis Block et .Schneider, Syst. Ichth., ISOl, p. 172. 



Sulfirias ru'iihilit.s Ruppell, .\tlu.s, 1.S2.8, ]>. 114. .Jordan it Seale, Idc. cit., |). 429. 



Sahirias quadrkornis D.\Y, Fi.shcs of India, 1S76, p. 'i'M, pi. 70, tig. 4. 



The collection contains the following female specimens from the Paumotu 

 Islands: Nos. 05903, 3i inches long from Makemo; 05898, 3i inches long from 

 Fakarava; 05907, 3 inches and 08936, M. C. Z. 29527, 2^ inches long from Rangi- 

 roa. 



The last specimen has dorsal XII, 21; anal 23, and agrees in color with 

 current descriptions of the species, except that on the caudal the spots are more 

 or less coalescent, forming 3 wavy, broken cross bars. It differs from the 

 description given by Jordan & Richardson in Fishes from Islands of the Philip- 



