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288. Corythroichthys sealei .lordan & Starks, new species. Samoa. 



llciul 7.riO; snout ciiual to di.stance from middle of eye to posterior margin of opercle, the snout 

 narrow, being scarcely one-lialf of eye; forehead rather abrupt; rings 16 -f- 32; dorsal 32 high, tile 

 rays being equal to or greater than depth of fish, the base of the fin not elevated; no crest on head or 

 snout; only a trace of a single raised line across opercle; rings of body with six faces, those of the tail 

 with four; distance in front of aual fin. 1.75 in posterior part of body; depth 2.75 in head, slightly' 

 greater than the width; the egg sac in the male occupies the ventral portion of the sixteenth to 

 twenty-eighth ring; length of dorsal slightly less than width of eye; caudal jjin-shaped, 3 in head, 

 anal minute, directly lielow tliinl rav of dorsal. 



Fill. IK—Cori/lliroirhlhiis seairi .Tordiiii & Stnrk.s, new species. Type. 



Color in life light gray spotted with reddish brown and lighter gray; snout and cauilal whitish; 

 head barred l)clo\v. Color in spirits whitish, each ring with a liranrhid 'j:?cinish ^|.anL;li- nn side and 

 top, under surface white; two distinct greenish lines along side of hi-ad ac i..,~,- ..|.rirlr i., base of 

 pectoral, the lower one of these lines extending slightly out on the smMit; t-ip ,fi la-ad marked into a 

 numljcr (10) of irregular squares by narrow dark lines; four rings of miiniie dit- aniund snout; a dark 

 elongate lilack area on throat, more or less separated from a black ventral >|H.t ..n lirst body ring; three 

 rows of small round dots on side of body below the branched greenish spots doisal tin with scat- 

 terel 1 t 



Tliree sj ecin en tr ii Vj n thetvien ^l 22 I s Nati nl Mu tut 2i m he long. 



289 Corythroiclitliys mataafse J r 1 rn iS^ Se lie new s] ecie 



Head 11 > '•n ut 3 in head narrow -nidth ib ut'ine\c e\e3 5 m head interorbital very nar- 

 1 w It ss than nc halt \\ 1 1th ot e\e rings 15+34 the minute anal tin being on the 15th ring, in the male 

 fh g I ![ \ n. tl c \eitt 1 irt e t rings 15 to 2b b U even sided the tail 1 ut four; dorsal 



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-1 its base not elevated opeide without a bony ridge extending acre ss it 1 ut n ith numerous radiating 

 -ows t pits the w 1 lest point foperlewitha hort derm il fla; me lial line f en ut with a distinct 

 ere t Mth si\ teeth the height ot crest 1 emg hghth le s than width of J uj il on anterior half of 

 1 It tl e rest not toothed no mtei orbital ci est a <-hort fiinged dermal tentacle o\ei each eye, its 

 ki gth 1 M thin wi Itl of ii teroil itil a smo-je fiingei tentacle on mi 1 He of nnchal legion; a pair of 

 si itteiti 1 J til 1 1 1 ] t 1 1 toeje anothei pair bcl w mi llle t ^n ut; a rim-like 



ir je tl n |i I 1 ut rathei pug like m shape pectoial ks m lengtli than 



w 'tl t I i 111 I Itoeje anal minute 



C loi wliti h ei h rm„ n icl I it-5 faces with m o\ il buwnrimmtl =[ :)t jf ilvery; under 

 sulfa e of tail w hitish snout with 2 rings of hisk\ al ut 5 hi k\ tros line un lei throat; about 5 

 radiating dusky lines in eye and over head. 



