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Color jjale, body covered with brownish specks everj'where, these 

 arranged in a broad V-shape to form a single row along each muscle 

 segment, the apex forward; between these rows finer specks; dorsals 

 barred; caudal fin dusky; a blackish rectangular blotch at base of 

 caudal fin bordered by pale; the brown pigment cells on head more or 

 less arranged in lengthwise rows behind eyes and across cheek; the 

 most distinct row on level of upper edge of pupil. 



Remarks. — This new species may be separated from all others by 

 the combination of characters given in the generic diagnosis. 



Named tutuilae after Tutuila Island, where it was taken. 



Genus ASTERROPTERYX RUppell 



Asterroptcryx Ruppell, Atlas zu der lieise im nrn-dlichen Afrika, Fi»;che, p. 138, 

 1828. (Type, Asterropteryx scmipunetatus Riippell.) 



ASTERROPTERYX SEMIPUNCTATUS Ruppell 



Asterropteryx semipunctatus RuppEa^L, Atlas zu der Reise ira nordlichen Afrika, 

 Fishe, p. 138, pi. 34, fig. 4, 1828. 



15115, Samoan Islands, A. B. Steinberger, 2 specimens. 



52252, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 9 specimens in very bad condition. 



51783, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



Genus EVIOTA Jenkins 



Eviota Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 22 (1902), p. 501, 1903. (Type, 



Eviota epiphanes Jenkins.) 

 Allopohius! Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., vol. 5, p. 17»), 1904. (Type, AUogohius 



vlridis Waite.) 



EVIOTA HERREI Jordan and Scale 



Eviota herrci Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), p. 390, 

 fig. 81, 1906. 



51769 (type and 2 cotypos of Eviota herrei Jordan and Seale), Apia, Samoa, 

 Jordan and Kellogg. 



EVIOTA SMARAGDUS Jordan and Seale 



Evi-ota smaruffdus Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), 

 p. 388, fig. 78, 1906. 



116148, Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Point, June 27, 1939, 17 specimens. 

 116140, Tutuila Island, Fagasa Bay, rock pools, June 5, 1939, 7 specimens. 

 116147, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 193!). 1 specimen. 

 51764 (type and 6 cotypes of Eviota .'^fnaragdiifi Jordan and Seale), Pago 

 Pago, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg. 



EVIOTA SEBREEI Jordan and Seale 



Eviota sebreei Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905) p. 390, 

 fig. 80, 1906. 



517()5 (type of Eviota sebrcci Jordan and Seale), Apia, Samoa, Jordan and 

 Kellogg. 



