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The gill inenibranes extend far forward and are narrowly attached 

 to the isthmus; the caudal fin is rounded; there are two pairs of 

 canines on each side of each jaw, v/ith a band of villiform teeth inside 

 the outer row of canines; the body is compressed, the head not de- 

 pressed; the mouth is oblique, the lower jav*' a little longer; the 

 maxillaries reach to under front of pupil; the interorbital is very 

 narrow, bony, and concave; anal fin origin under that of the second 

 dorsal origin; anus immediately in front of anal fin; pelvic fins not 

 fringed, and reaching to anus or to origin of anal fin; pectorals ex- 

 tending to anal origin; no elongate rays in median fins; no dermal 

 flaps on shoulder girdle; no teeth on vomer or palatines; anterior 

 nostril tubular, posterior nostril not tubular, no pores in midline of 



Figure 22. — Trimma eviotofs, new species: Holotype (U.S.N.M. No. 116169), 12.2 mm. 



in standard length. 



interorbital space; head naked, no scales in front of dorsal fin, no 

 scales on breasts. 



Color pale, with eight vertical bars clorsally, the first under middle 

 of eye, very short; the second a saddle from top of head past rear 

 margin of eyes ending at lower margin of cheeks; the third a short 

 saddle niidwa}^ from eyes to origin of first dorsal ending at upper 

 edge of opercle; fourtli at origin of spiny dorsal across pectoral base 

 ending at base of lowest ray; fifth under middle of s})!ny dorsal; sixth 

 at origin of second dorsal ending at origin of anal ; seventh near rear 

 of base of soft dorsal, and eighth a round blotch posteriorly on dorsal 

 part of caudal peduncle. 



Remarks. — This eleotrid is intermediate between Trimnui and 

 Eviota.^ having the pelvic fins of Eviota but the gill membranes like 

 Trimma. It differs from all other species in the genera Eviota and 

 Trimma in its color pattern of eight blackish bars or saddles on head 

 and body. The interorbital space and lack of pores there agree with 

 Trhnma and not Eviota. 



Named eviotops in reference to its simihirity to the genus Eviota. 



Genus VALENCIENNEA Bleeker 



Valenciennea Blb:e:ker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, vol. 2, p. 275, 1868. [Type 

 ValemAenncd hasseltii P.locker (= Eleotriodes hassritii Bleeker = Eleotris 



