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spur extending down into mouth cavity, its tip rounded, broadening 

 basally. Eyes close together, separated by a raised bony ridge, inter- 

 orbital area scaled; preopercular margin free; lateral line nearly 

 straight; pectoral shorter than head; no pectoral evident on blind side; 

 dorsal fin origin on blind side slightly anterior to upper eye; first 

 dorsal rays slightly longer than succeeding ones and free for a con- 

 siderable part of their length. 



Color in alcohol. — Dark reddish brown (paratypes light yellowish 

 brown) ; head and body mottled with small round pale spots and large 

 oval spots; 3 round or oval dark-brown-edged rings, about size of eye, 

 with small pale centers located on or immediately below lateral line, 

 the first under tip of pectoral, the third on caudal peduncle, and the 

 second midway between. Pectoral fin with its rays completely black 

 in type, base pale and tips black in paratypes. 



Dorsal and anal fins with scattered minute black dots; caudal fin 

 dusky, mottled on basal two-thirds, small dots arranged in irregular 

 transverse rows on distal third. 



Remarks. — Samariscus triocellatus most closely resembles S. huys- 

 mani Weber from the Java Sea and S. corallinus Gilbert from Hawaii. 

 S. triocellatus has fewer dorsal and anal fin rays than ^S". corallinus and 

 differs from this and all other known species of the genus Samariscus 

 in being marked with 3 distinct ocelli in a line along the middle of sides. 



Named triocellatus because of the three-eyed pattern mentioned 

 above. 



Suborder Soleina 



Family SOLEIDAE 



By Loren p. Woods 



I (Schultz) note in studying the fishes of this family that the types 

 of Symphurus fasciolaris GUbert (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 

 p. 566, 1892, Gulf of California) generally have been overlooked by 

 ichthyologists. Therefore, I call attention to the presence in the 

 U.S. National Museum of USNM 44406, which I select as the 

 lectotype. 



KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES OF SOLEIDAE FROM THE NORTHERN MARSHALL 

 ISLANDS AND ADJACENT REGIONS 



la. Pectoral fins present; nasal tentacle longer than eye; transverse wavy dark 

 lines on head and body; dorsal fin rays 92 to 98; anal rays 80 to 84. 



Aesopia heterorhinos (Bleeker) 



lb. Pectoral fins absent; nasal tentacle shorter than eye; body pale yellowish 

 to brownish with small indistinct brown spots; pelvic fins free from anal 

 fin and from anal papilla; lateral line on blind side with dorsal branch 

 beginning on snout and following dorsal outline along bases of dorsal 



