A Collection of Fishes from Samoa. 125 



Eviota afelei Jordan and Seale. 

 Six from coral in reef in front of hospital, Pago Pago; cove just south of Aua 

 village; tide-pools near Double Point, just west of entrance to Pago Pago Harbor. 

 Probably E. smaragdus Jordan and Seale is identical. 



Eviota distigma Jordan and Seale. 

 Two from cove just south of Aua village. Small black spots, two in number, on 

 each pectoral base distinctive. Two from tide-pools near Double Point, just west of 

 entrance to Pago Pago Harbor. 



Pseudogobiodon citrinus (Riippell). 



Twenty examples from cove just south of Aua village. Variably pale or dark. 

 Some with first dorsal olive, border bright orange, edge narrowly black. Second 

 dorsal olive with yellow border, narrowly edged blackish in some examples; others 

 show pectorals with yellowish tints. The darker examples mostly uniform slaty and 

 without the brilliant borders to the fins. 



Eleven examples, same locality, screened at the bottom, are variably light and dark, 

 some yellowish, others with orange-bordered dorsal. Three from coral in reef in front 

 of hospital, Pago Pago Harbor, and one from Pago Pago. 



BLENKIID^. 



Enneapterygius tusitalas Jordan and Seale. 

 One from cove just south of Aua village and 5 from tide-pools near Double Point, 

 just west of entrance to Pago Pago Harbor. 



Salarias variolosus Valenciennes. 

 One example from cove just south of Aua village. Jordan and Evermann^ say : 

 "The fish figured and described by Giinther in Fische der Siidsee as Salarias variolosus 

 from Tahiti^ is a different species." It is also further inferred that the specimen in 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from the "Sandwich Islands," 

 collected by Thomas Nuttall, is not identical with Giinther's fish, A comparison of 

 Nuttall's specimen with our Samoan leaves no doubt as to their identity. 



Salarias gibbifrons Quoy and Gaimard. 



One from cove just south of Aua village. 



Alticus biseriatus (Valenciennes). (Fig. 2). 



Head 3.33 to 4.12; depth 3.66 to 5; D. XIII, 18 to 20; A. 22 to 24; P. 15; V. 2; 

 head width 1.5 its length; head depth (without crest) 1.4; eye 2.5 to 3.5; mouth width 2; 

 first dorsal spine 2; fifth dorsal ray 1.33; fourth anal ray 2.33; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2.33; caudal 1; pectoral 1.25; ventral 2. 



Body elongate, slender, tapers back gradually and evenly from head to caudal 

 peduncle. Latter not free, compressed. 



Head small, robust, cheeks and lower sides little swollen. Snout very obtuse, 

 front profile vertical and slightly convex, breadth opposite front of eyes about equals 

 twice its length to upper jaw en"d medially. Eye large, antero-lateral, moderately 

 elevated, posterior edge near first third in head. Mouth broad, with short gape, 

 inferior, so front of lower jaw about opposite eye center. Each side of lower jaw with 

 large posterior canine. Teeth minute otherwise, very close-set, pointed, in single 

 narrow flexible row. Interorbital narrow, not one-third of eye, level. Anterior 

 nostril level with and close before lower eye edge and with short fleshy tentacle about 

 one-third of eye. Posterior nostril close above anterior or lower nostril, also nearer 

 eye, simple pore. 



» Bull. U. S. F. Com., XXIII (pt. 1), 1903 (1905), p. 498. 



' Jour. Mus. Godeffroy, VI (Heft, xi), 1877. p. 203, pi. 116, fig. a. 



