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Four specimens, two from Apia, two from Pago Pago. 



Life colors of a Pago Pago specimen dark clear brown, the dnrail blackish; tip of tail briglit yellow 

 Sjiecimen caught in the coral by cracking the large growing heads. 



An .\pia specimen was brown, lighter beneath; tip of tail bright yellow. 



Color in spirits, everywhere a uniform dark reddish brown darker above; tij^of caudal and under 

 part of manililile pale. 



Type no. .51 715, V. R. National Museum, IfiO mm. in length, from Pago Pago. 



Vir,. '.t, — Aii'irrltias allardicci Jordan tt starks, iil-w tii«_-<ics. Tvi'c. 



225. Aiiarchias knighti .Jordan ct Starks, new species. Samoa. 



Head 9.5 in full length; depth 2.1.'5 in head; snout short and moderately blunt, 7.25 in head; eye 

 1.2 to 1.5 in snout; length of mouth, 3 in head. Teeth in two series in the upper jaw, the outer 

 series more close-set, smaller and more regular than the inner, the inner series rather large, sharp, 

 and of unequal length; anteriorly a pair of median vomerine teeth similar to those on the inner row; 

 teetli of mandiljle in two rows and resembling those of upjier jaw; tube of anterior nostril half 

 diameter of eye; gill-opening very small, smaller than pupil. Length of trunk contained 1.17 in tail. 



In spirits a network of dark lines covers the head and body over a ground col.ir of slaty brown. 

 These in the type cover the body everywhere e.Kcept under the mandible, which is white. In the 

 c'otype tlie underparts are only slightly mottled, leaving them a soiled w bite. 



This species diffei-s horn A. aUardicei particularly in having the liody ni<.ittliMi, and in having a 

 slightly longer snout and mouth and a slightly larger eye. It is known from two examples taken at 

 Apia by Prof. Robert Edgar Allardice and Master Knight Starr Jordan. Type, no. 5171G U. S. 

 National Museum, 115 mm. in length, and the cotype, 145 mm., both from .\pia. 



