NO. 3582 GENUS ENTOMACRODUS — SPRINGER 73 



HoLOTYPE.— USNM 199985, female, 51.2 mm 8L, east side of 

 Anaho Bay near cliffs at shore, Niikii Hiva, Marquesas, July 17, 

 1957, collected by J. E. Randall. 



Paratypes. — USNM 1999S6, two females, same data as holotype; 

 ANSP 82148 (3 specimens), BPBM 2333 and 2334 (2 specimens), 

 CHNM 25140 and 25141 (2 specimens), and SU 24522 (1 specimen), 

 all from Nuku Hiva. 



Etymology. — Named for John E. Randall, whose collections of 

 Marquesan fishes were of great importance for my study. 



Entomacrodus striatus (Qiioy and Gainiard) 



Plates 5, 7b-c, 12 

 Salan'as slriatus Quoy and Gaimard, 1836, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 



Poissons, vol. 11, pp. 309-310 [le rivage pres du Masson, Isle de France]. 

 Salarias fraenaius Valenciennes, 1836, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 



Poissons, vol. 11, pp. 342-344 [Cote Malabre]. 

 ?Salarias arenatus Blecker, 1855, Nat. Tijdschr. Nedcrl. Indie, vol. 8, pp. 173-174 



[Cocos Islands]. 

 Salarias penoius Sauvage, 1891, Hist. Phys. Nat. Polit. Madagascar, vol. 14, p. 389 



[misspelling oi fraenaius; Madagascar]. 

 Entomacrodus wolffi Rofen, 1958, Mar. Fish, llennell Is., in Nat. Hist. RenncU Is., 



pp. 202-204 [llennell Island]. 

 Entomacrodus plurifilis plurifilis Schultz and Chapman, 1960, U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Bull. 202, pt. 2, pp. 338-340 [Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Point]. 

 Entomacrodus plurifilis marshallensis Schultz and Chapman, 1960, U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Bull. 202, pt. 2, pp. 341-343 [Bikini Atoll, P^nyu Island]. 



Description. — Segmented dorsal fin rays 14-17 (rarely 14 or 17, 

 table 1) ; segmented anal fin rays 15-18 (rarely 15 or 18, table 1) ; poste- 

 riormost anal pterygiophore supporting 1 or 2 external elements (50.8 

 percent supporting 2) ; total gill-rakers on first arch 14-22 (16-20 in 93 

 percent of specimens); pseudobranchial filaments 5-10 (usually 6-8), 

 increasing in number only slightly with increase in SL (table 30) ; 

 vertebrae 33-35 (34 in 97 percent of specimens) ; supraorbital cirri 

 1-20, number increasing with increase in SL (table 31); main, or 

 longest supraorbital cirrus with branches mesially and usually laterally 

 (depending on population, see variation below); nape with 1 cirrus on 

 each side (occasionally absent); predorsal commissural pores 2-10, 

 increasing in number slightly with increase in SL up to 49 mm SL 

 (table 32); preopercular series of pores with all positions with simple 

 pores; 1 pore before each anterior nostril; lateral line pores terminating 

 on side in area below and between dorsal fin spine 11 and dorsal ray 10 

 (usually between dorsal spine 13 and dorsal ray 6) ; ventral margin of 

 upper lip usually completely crenulate, sometimes weakly; lip crenulae 

 numbering 18-34 (22-29 in 91 percent of specimens). 



Proportional measurements: See tables 2, 3, and 35. 



Males develop fleshy rugose modifications of the skin of the anal 

 spines and the anterior first to fourth anal rays. Tf one considers 



