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from upper posterior margin of opercle around thorax at base of ventrals; about 5 light-blue bands 

 around belly; 3 indistinct lighter lines over the back, 2 on nuchal region and 1 extending obliquely 

 down from base of spinous dorsal; dorsal fins grayish with about 5 oblique dusky lines; 2 or 3 indistinct 

 ilusky bands on caudal; pectoral with 3 or 4 very indistinct dusky cross-bands, the base of the tin 

 bluis^h with 2 or 3 dusky blotches; anal and ventral dusky without distinct marking. 

 One specimen from Apia. Type n,o. 51778. U. S. National Museum, length 2 inches. 



KELLOOGELLA Jordan & Seale, new genus. 

 Ki'tlofjijelld Jordan & Seale, new genus of Gobiid;e (cariliiuili.';). 

 Brilliantly colored little fishes, allied to Gobiosoma, the body naked, but with only 6 dorsal spines, 

 the body and head more elongate. Coral reefs of Samoa. The genus, typified by KeUoijgelln eardwalh, 

 is named for its discoverer, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, professor of entomology in Stanford University. 



1487. Kelloggella cardinalis Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. (PI. liii, fig. 1.) 



Head 4.5 in length; depth 6; eye 4 in head; dorsal vi, 13; anal 9; no scales; interorbital one-half 

 of eye; snout 4. 



Body elongate, compressed; anterior profile rounde<l; the lower jaw a little the shorter, the angle 

 under middle of eye; small sharp teeth in jaws, none on vomer or palatines; opercle and preopercle 

 entire; width of gill-opening 2.1 in head; caudal peduncle strong, its depth 1.5 in head; origin of 

 spinous dorsal posterior to a line with base of ventral; base of spinous dorsal 1.15 in head, its longest 

 spine 2 in head; base of soft dorsal 2.8 in length of fish without caudal, its longest ray 2 in head; 

 pectoral slightly longer than head, its tip on line with sixth dorsal spine; ventrals small, 1.2 in head, 

 their origin below axil of pectorals, their tips on line with base of fifth dorsal spine; the 2 fins fully 

 united; caudal rounded, equal to head. 



Life colors of the type specimen clear grass green, rather pale; both dorsals, caudal, and anal bright 

 cherry-red; anal greenish in front; pectoral and ventral green. Two larger specimens were greenish 

 black, more greenish anteriorly; dorsal and anal bright orange edged with black; pectoral and ventral 

 l)right golden green; caudal gray. 



Color in spirits, a uniform dull green, a little less shaded on head and belly; fins all yellowish 

 white; some specimens with a dusky margin to dorsals, caudal, and anal; the dorsals are also darker 

 at liase. 



Three specimens from Pago Pago. The type is no. 51785, U. 8. National INIuseum, length 1.12 



1488. Eelloggella oligolepis (Jenkins). Hawaii. 



This species bears little resemblance to the genus Eiu/jmlas to which it has been referred. It may 

 lie'provisionally placed in KclloggeUa, from which it differs in form and in the presence of a few scales 

 on the posterior part of the body. 



GOBIODON Kuhl & Van Hasselt. 



GoKodon Kuhl & Van Hasselt, Bleeker, Boroe, 407, 1851 {histrio). 

 Small, deep-bodied gobies, entirely scaleless; jaws with canine teeth. 



1489. Gobiodon histrio (Kuhl A Van Hasselt). Tonga; East Indies. 



1490. Gobiodon rivxilatus Riippell. Tahiti; Guam; Tonga; Bonham I.; Vavau; Solomon Is.; 



.Meduro; New Britain (Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 840); East Indies. 



1491. Gobiodon ceramensis Bleeker. Fiji; East Indies. 

 i;„hi<,d<,„ rrraiimisis. Giinther, Flsche der Sudsee, 180, Fiji. 



1492. Gobiodon atrangulatus Garman. Fiji. 



Gohwdon <ilran!iiiliilns Carman, Bull. JIu.s. Comp. Zool. xxxix, 1903, 235, Fiji. 



1493. Gobiodon flavidus De Vis. Banks Group, east of New Guinea. 

 Gnbiorlon jlaiidiis De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. .S. VV. 1884, 449. 



1494. Gobiodon axillaris De A^'is. Banks Group, east of New ( iuinea. 



1495. Gobiodon lineatus De Vis. Banks Group, east of New (iuinea. 



1496. Gobiodon inornatus De Vis. I'.anks Group, east of New (iuinea. 



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