PARVIPABMA 81 



An adult specimen from Pago Pago was light olive, mottled with pale 

 pinkish brown; a pinkish brown stripe from lower pectoral axil straight 

 to base of caudal; six violet spots darker edged, on side of head; one on 

 base of pectoral; dorsal light reddish, a jet black spot edged with white on 

 the tips of the longest spines; caudal pale, mottled light green and pink at 

 base; the larger examples have a black spot on upper part of caudal; blue 

 spots plainer; anal light yellow; pink brown at base and dark-edged, often 

 pink at base and edge; ventral and pectoral pale; pectoral without dark 

 in axil. 



Color in spirits dull yellowish white with tint of brown; some specimens 

 show traces of 7 dusky blotches along back; five or six bluish white spots 

 on opercle and cheek; an indistinct brownish line from axil of pectoral to 

 caudal ; belly and cfiin bluish white ; third and fourth spines of dorsal tipped 

 with black ; spinous and soft dorsal with indistinct blue lines ; caudal (except 

 in young) with a black blotch on its upper middle portion; anal with narrow 

 dark line at margin and another near the base; some specimens show a 

 dusky tip to caudal; pectoral and ventral unmarked. 



This handsome species is common in the crevices of the coral reefs about 

 Apia and Pago Pago. It seems to be distinct from the two species muralis 

 and sexguttata of the western Pacific. It has the head markings of the 

 latter with the body markings of the former. 



Seven specimens from Pago Pago and 23 from Apia. Specimens also 

 from the island of Negros, P. I., collected by Dr. Bashford Dean. [Jordan 

 and Seale.] 



The above is quoted from The Fishes of Samoa, by Jordan and 

 Scale, as I have no specimens for examination, though while 

 I was in the United States I saw some of those collected by 

 Dean on the south coast of Negros. 



Genus 18. PARVIPARMA g. nov. 



The elongate subcylindrical body is little compressed except 

 the posterior fourth, while the dorsal and ventral profiles are 

 nearly straight and parallel; the entire body covered with mi- 

 nute cycloid scales, more or less embedded and difficult to see, 

 about 165 in a lateral and about 40 in a transverse series; the 

 breast scaled over its posterior half; very small scales extend 

 upon pectoral and caudal fins and on head above opercle; the 

 remainder of head scaleless ; the cheeks crisscrossed by lines of 

 minute papillae ; the head rather short, broad, with a very heavy 

 lower jaw and nearly vertical mouth, with several rows of 

 teeth in each jaw ; in upper jaw outer row composed of relatively 

 large conical teeth ; then follow four or five rows of minute villi- 

 form teeth; behind these are two backward-pointing canines, 

 one on each side of median line; the outer row in lower jaw has 

 four large coarse teeth on each side of symphysis ; behind these 

 are four rows of minute teeth like those in upper jaw ; the eyes 



