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lower jaw distinct; teeth fine, numerous, movable, of equal size in 

 both jaws; vomer with a row of small blunt teeth; no cephalic crest. 



Color in alcohol. — Background color light tan, with the vertical bars 

 represented by dark brown markings on specimens as long as 65 mm. 

 in standard length, as follows : Along midside a series of pale-centered 

 dark brown spots, anterior and posterior ones sometimes not pale 

 centered; lower side with a series of double dark brown spots; on upper 

 part of back and extending onto dorsal fin a series of double dark 

 brown spots. Dorsal, anal, caudal, and pectoral fins barred with 

 dark brown ; usually a small more or less distinct dark brown spot on 

 upper part of opercle. Large adults 120 mm. in standard length have 

 a somewhat different color pattern: The vertical bars are practically 

 indistinct, being replaced by numerous scattered small dark brown 

 spots on head and body, and fins; the sides have lengthwise brown 

 streaks. 



Remarks. — This species is recognizable because of its light tan back- 

 ground on which is a sharply defined pattern of dark brown blotches 

 or spots. 



Figure 120.— Entomacrodus plurifilis plurifilis, new species and new subspecies, holotype» 

 USNM 144720, from Tau Island. Drawn by A. M. Awl. 



ENTOMACRODUS PLURIFIUS PLURIFIUS, new species and new subspecies 



Figure 120 

 Salarias marmorahis (not of Bennett) Schultz, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 180, p. 283, 

 1943 (Phoenix and Samoan Islands). 



Holotype.—VS'NM 144720, Samoan group, Tau Island, reef at 

 Siulagi Point, June 27, 1939, Schultz, standard length 60.5 mm. 



Paratypes.—VSNM 115456, Tutuila Island, Fagasa Bay, 1939, 

 Schultz, 5 specimens, 21.5 to 54 mm.; USNM 115457, Tutuila Island, 

 Alofau reef, 1939, Schultz, 3 specimens, 47 to 54 mm.; USNM 115459, 

 Tutuila Island, reef at entrance Pago Pago Bay, 1939, Schultz, 4 speci- 

 mens, 40 to 47 mm.; USNM 52264, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 speci- 



