THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 3;>5 



We have 35 specimens from Apia and two from Pago Pago. 



Life colors of Giiatholepis delloides, from Apia, plain gray, and mottled, with no color; a sharji 

 id across head and through and below eye. 



Another specimen from Apia was pale gray, a black bar at base of caudul; two liUuk dots V)elf>w 

 ; 4 yellowish white cross-bars, alternating with black; a black spot on middle of bnse of pectoral; 



wliitish, scarcely dotted. Tongue notched. 



-GmUUukpU dtUmdee (,Senlc). 



1438. Gnatholepis knig-hti .loi-dan A Evermann. Hawaii. 



Onatholepis knigliti .JotAhu & Evi-rmnnn, Bull. V. S. Fish Comm.. x.xil, 190-2 (1903K 2(l4. Honolulu. 

 This little fish is found in abundance in coral pools and tide ponds in tlic Ila\vaii;iu Islands. 



1439. Gnatholepis canalse (Sauvage). New Caleihmia. 



(;„l„„.^ ,;,ii,il:r Sinivniri', Hull. .Soc-. Philom. 1881. 102, Canala, in New Caledonia. 



1440. Gnatholepis maculipiunis (Macleay). New Guinea. 



GohiiiK marulii,innis Mack-ay. Fr<..-. I.iun. S..c. \. S, W. issl, ji'.T, . l>..rval vii.) 



VAIMOSA Jordan & Seale. new genus. 

 Vaimosa Jordan A Seale, new genua of (jobiidie ( ]'. /onlimiHs). 

 This genus differs from Qnatholcpis and Rhinoyohius in having tlie cheeks naked and the oiierclcs 

 (-overed with large scales. The species inhabit mountain brooks of the South Sea Islands. The tyjie 

 is Vaimosa fontmalls, from the Gasegase stream at Vaimosa in Upolu. Ooli'ois jdiuniniK Klecker pro)'- 

 ably belongs to the same genus. 



1441. Vaimosa fontinalis Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 4 in length; depth 4.7.5; eye ."5.85 in head; dorsal vi, 9; anars); sc-ales :'u from posterior 

 margin of opercles; the scales are much smaller on anterior of body; head from a line with jmis- 

 terior of eyes unsealed; no scales on cheeks o> oporoloo ; interorbital sp®t equal to eye; snout equals 

 two-thirds of eye. ^^ -- . 



Body elongate, compressed; the head bluntly rounded; mouth moderate, the angle under middle 

 of eye; small teeth in jaws, none on vomer or palatines; opercle and preopercle entire; nuchal region 

 <oncave; caudal peduncle strong, its depth 2 in head; origin of spinous dorsal over the anterior third 

 of pectoral rays, its longest spine 2 in head; base of soft dorsal 1.20 in head, equal in length to its 

 longest ray; base of anal 1.25 in head, equal in lengtli to its longest ray; pectoral equals length of head; 

 ventrals united, 1.20 in head, their origin below base of pectorals; caudal rounded, equal to length of 

 head. 



Life colors of a specimen from Ihi- i .:i>e_::i>e K'iver at Apia ( 1.5 inches long), olive; 3 black spots at 

 liase of caudal; body with dusky sli.hir-; -hi.' of head with 3 oblique blackish stripes, meeting 

 obscurely across throat; spinous dorsiil reddi-h at base, the upper half black; other fins ol)scnrely 

 marked. 



Colo'r in spirits, dull greenish with about 7 broad irregular Iilock-Hke dusky bands over back and 

 on side, more or less connected on median line of body and near base of dorsal tins; lowi-r tlurd of 



