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undoubtedly refers to the species treated here. If it did not come 

 from the Hawaiian Islands — and there is some reason to doubt that 

 it did — it must refer to another species, probably E. striatus. Under 

 these circumstances it would be a senior synonym of E. striatus, and 

 the species treated here as E. marmoratus would be without a name. 

 My reason for questioning the origin of Bennett's specimen is based on 

 the fact that Blennius sordidus and Scorpaena asperella, described in 

 the same paper and also supposedly from Hawaii, appear not to occur 

 in the Hawaiian Islands (Strasburg, 1956, p. 243; Gosline, 1955, p. 

 461). For reasons T intend to publish elsewhere, I believe Blennius 

 sordidus to be an eastern Pacific species. Furthermore, in Bennett's 

 description of B. marmoratus, he stated, in reference to the nuchal cirri: 

 "... there is also a very short filament on each side . . . ." Since 

 in the 4-inch long specimen of the species treated here one would ex- 

 pect to find several cirri on each side of the nape, the description does 

 not seem to apply to the species I am treating. Bennett did note the 

 branching on both margins of the supraorbital cirrus and one would 

 have expected him to report multiple cirri on each side of the nape had 

 they been present. 



In spite of the indications to the contrary, I favor allocating 

 Bennett's name to the Hawaiian species of Entomacrodus, with which 

 it most closely agrees in description and in which sense I employ it 

 here. The name marmoratus is now fairly widely employed for this 



TABLE 24- Proportional dimensions as percent SL of specimens of Entomacrodus 



marmoratus (for meaning of abbreviations see methods section) 



Catalog no. Locale 



Sex SL 



HL 



OL OCL NCL DS3 DRl PECL PELL CL 



USNM 142060 

 USNM 142060 

 UH 933 

 USNM 78053 

 USNM 78053 

 USNM 78053 

 USNM 142060 

 USNM 142060 

 UH 933 

 USNM 142060 

 UH 933 

 USNM 142060 

 UH 933 

 UH 933 



Oahu 



Oahu 



Midway 



Hawaii 



Hawaii 



Hawaii 



Oahu 



Oahu 



Midway 



Oahu 



Midway 



Oahu 



Midway 



Midway 



d 32.2 



6 36.1 



$ 48.0 



c^ 48.0 



2 53.6 



d 55.2 



d 58.8 



2 62.0 



$ 80.8 



9 85.8 



5 93.6 



6 94.6 

 d 104.5 

 9 105.0 



24.8 

 23.8 

 23.3 

 24.0 

 23.1 

 22.6 

 24.0 

 23.7 

 23.3 

 23.1 

 22,9 

 22,6 

 23,7 

 23.0 



7.4 

 7.2 

 6.7 

 6.2 

 6.3 

 6,0 

 6.1 

 6,3 

 5.6 

 5.4 

 5.3 

 5.3 

 5.1 

 5.0 



4.3 

 3.0 

 4.8 

 5.8 

 3.7 

 4.0 

 4.8 

 4.8 

 5.2 

 4.0 

 5.0 

 5.5 

 4.8 

 4.4 



3.1 

 3.0 

 3.1 

 2.1 

 3.0 

 3.1 

 3.4 

 2.3 

 2.5 

 2.3 

 3.1 

 2.2 

 2.8 

 2.4 



10.9 



11.1 



10.4 



11.0 



10.1 



9.2 



8,8 



10,2 



9.4 



8.7 



9.6 



7.1 



8.7 



9.3 



12.1 24.2 

 13.8 23.8 

 12.5 22.9 

 12.5 24.6 



14.0 23.0 

 10.8 20.7 



12.7 23.6 



12.1 22,9 



12.4 22.3 



10.5 23.3 

 13.5 21.9 



11.8 21.6 

 9.8 20.0 



13.0 21,9 



14.3 

 17.4 

 15.6 

 18.1 

 16.6 

 14.6 

 16.1 

 15.5 

 14.9 

 15.5 

 14.4 

 13.6 

 12.9 

 16.2 



23.3 

 26.0 

 22.9 

 26.0 

 23.0 

 22.6 

 24.0 

 22.9 

 22.9 

 23.6 

 23.2 

 21.9 

 20.8 

 22.8 



