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Rerruirks. — This new species belongs to the group of species center- 

 ing around E. hicolor but differs from that species chiefly in coloration ; 

 haiocdiensis has short white bars on the midsides, whereas hicolor is 

 plain brown without markings. 



Doubt might be cast on the source of this material, "a dry dock 

 hauled from Guam about a year ago," if with this new si^ecies (which 

 did not occur in the extensive collections made in the Marshall and 

 Marianas Islands by a group of collectors during and after the war) 

 other species had not been taken as follows: Scorpaeno'psis cacopsis 

 (known only from the Hawaiian Islands), Cirrhitichthys aprinus, 

 a specimen of Apogon^ several specimens of gobies not yet identified, 

 2 specimens of an unidentified species of Acanthurus in the settling 

 stage of late metamorphosis, specimens of Pseudochromis tapeinosoina 

 and Tripterygion hemim.elas (common to the Marshall, Marianas, and 

 Hawfiiian Islands) having about one more scale on the average than 

 those from the Marshall and Marianas Islands, and Gymnothorax 

 undulatus (common to all three named localities). We conclude that 

 the fishes in this collection are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and 

 were not transported in the drydock brought from Guam. 



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