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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Fourteen specimens from Apia and I'ajio Pago. The tyjie is no. 51707, U. S. National Museum 

 from Pago Pago, length five-eighths inch. 



1425. Eviota sebreei Jordan & SeaJe, new species. Samoa. 



Head 3.35 in length; depth 5; eye 3.25 in head; scales 26; dorsal vi, 9; anal 10. 



Body elongate, compressed; anterior profile of head rounded; jaws equal; the snout, ho\\e\ii 

 more pointed tharfin other species of Eiiola; caudal peduncle 2 in head; jaws with small sharp-poiniii 

 teeth, angle of jaws below middle of eye; base of spinous dorsal greater than its height, its base l.:; 

 m head; base of soft dorsal 1.20 in head; pectoral 1.10 in head; the ventrals slightly longer, reacliin 

 to base of anal, their origin posterior to base of pectorals: caudal rounded, 1.20 in head. 



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t^brcci Jordan & Seale, 



Type. 



Color in spirits white; a wide grayish band from posterior of eye along lower part of side to 

 caudal; a narrow brown line from posterior of eye along middle of body to caudal; a big deep black 

 blotch on base of caudal, which extends out upon the fin; a dark line from eye down side of snout; 

 upper half of spinous dorsal whitish, lower half dusky; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal more or less 

 shaded with dusky; pectoral and ventral white. 



One specimen, no. 51765, U. S. National Museum, from Apia, length 0.65 incli. 

 1426. Eviota herrei Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 3.10 in length; depth 3.75; eye 2.75 in head; scales 24; dorsal vi, 9; anal 8. 



Body rather short and thick for a fish of this genus; anterior profile rounded, the lower jaw 

 slightly the longer; irnnute round, pointed teeth in each jaw, those of upper jaw rather widely 



herrei Jortian & Seale, new species. Type. 



separated; caudal peduncle thick, its depth 2 in head; origin of spinous dorsal slightly posterior to a 

 line with origin of ventrals, its height about equal to its base; base of soft dorsal equal to its longest 

 ray; pectoral long, extending to below th»^?th ray of soft dorsal; origin of anal much nearer base of 

 laudal than tip of snout, its base less than length of its longest ray; ventrals reaching base of anal, 

 their origin directly below and scarcely in advance of origin of pectorals; caudal roundeit, 1.20 in head. 



