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head have the pupils in anterior part directed somewhat forward and 

 upward; interorbital space concave; anterior nostril somewhat tubu- 

 lar, the posterior nasal opening at upper front of eye, without tube 

 or raised rim; premaxillary a little protractile, the fleshy snout 

 sturgeonlikc in appearance, and projecting some distance in front 

 of tip of lower jaw; none of the rays of anal, pectoral, pelvic or 

 dorsal fins are branched, all appear to be jointed or soft rays, how- 

 ever ; the caudal has about 8 branched rays ; a narrow band of villi- 

 form teeth on both jaws; no teeth on vomer; on palatines villifonn 

 teetli occur on head of that bone in some specimens, absent in others; 

 tongue narrow, free and pointed. 



In the body cavity of several females nearly ripe eggs occurjcd. 



Color in life translucent, grayish white in alcohol ; the larger speci- 

 mens are plain in color except for the blackish eyes and one or two 

 blackish to brownish saddles on back behind nape and a few more 

 posteriorly that nearly reach the lateral line; some specimens are 

 plain in color; the fins are unmarked; the extreme development of 

 the color pattern on a 35 mm. specimen from Tau Island consists 

 of 13 brown saddles along the back, represented by brown spots 

 just below the lateral line on the first ten, and vertical bars reaching 

 the anal on the last three, expanded ventrally; the pale interspaces 

 are as long as or longer than the snout; eye and interorbital space 

 black, sometimes the snout is black on the smaller specimens; about 

 three pale spots in line with lower edge of eye and two more under 

 eye; some brown pigment on under side of head, and tip of lower 

 jaw blackish in the 24.5 mm. specimen. 



Remarks. — This new form differs from the other subspecies, C. 

 cookei cookei Fowler, from the Haw-aiian Islands, in having 40 to 43 

 dorsal and 37 to 39 anal rays instead of 37 or 38 and 35 to 37 rays re- 

 spectively; similarly enderbiiryensh has 56 to 60 pores in the lateral 

 line instead of about 54 in cookei. Fowler i-eports 35 or 36 dorsal 

 rays, 34 or 35 anal, and 47 to 55 pores in the lateral line of cookei from 

 Oahu, but the two specimens from Oahu in the National Museum have 

 the counts as reported in the comparison in the key and in my first 

 sentence. 



Named enderburyensis after Enderbury Island, one of the Phoenix 

 group, where I collected numerous paratypes in a narrow deep chan- 

 nel, the bottom of which was covered with fine gravel. This species 

 occurred there in great abundance. 



Genus KRAEMERIA Steindachner 



Kraemeria Steindachnek, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 115, p. 41, 1906. (Type, 

 Kraemeria samoensia Steindachner.) 



