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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



tudinal rows of brown dots; fins without color or markings except a few small irregular dark spots on 

 dorsal and caudal. 



Four specimens from Apia. The type is no. 51790, U. S. National Museum, length \j\ inches. 



The species is named for Musila, of Apia, a young Samoan of fine parts whom we found efficient 

 as a fisherman. 



—AlHrus miisiliv Jordan & Seale, new s 



1601. Alticus sebsB (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Fiji; Tahiti; Samoa (Giinther). 



Salnrias sebx Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 323, 1835, East Indies. Kner, Sitz. Al£. Wiss. Wien 1868, 

 41, Fiji. Giintlier, Fi.sclie der Sudsee, 202, Samoa, Fiji, Taliiti. 

 This species, known by the lengthening of the first 1 to 3 dorsal spines, was not taken by us. 



1602. Alticus sealei (Bryan & Herre). Marcus I. 



Eutomacrodus sealei Bryan & Herre. Occ. Papers Bishop Museum, ii, 1903, 138, Marcus I. 



SALABIAS Cuvier. Mano'o. 



! preoccupied by 



<Scar<fs Jordan & Evermann, Check-List Fishes, 471, 1896 (rubropunctatus), 



Scartes Swainson, 1829, a genus of mammals. 

 Scartichthys Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., iii, 2395, 1900 {rubropunctatus). 



Not Salaria Forskal = B?e«)ii».s-. 



1603. Salarias zebra Yaillant & Sauvage. Hawaii. 

 [Salarias cijpho Jenkins, Honolulu. ) 



This species is very abundant in the rock-pools of the lava about Hawaii, being the commonest of 

 all the blennies in that region. It has not been found elsewhere. 



1604. Salarias sertatus Garman. Fiji. 



Salarias sertatus Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. .x.'ixix, 1903, 237, Fiji. 

 This species, which we have not seen, resembles Alticui 



in form and in habits, but 



uniformly colored. 



1605. Salarias lineatus Bleeker. Samoa; Fate (Seale); East Indies. 



Salarias lineatus Bleelier, Verhand. Batav. Genootseh., x.xii, Blenniidce and Gobiidse, 18. GUnther, Cat., in, 254, 

 Java, Day, Fishes of India, 332, pi. Lxx, fig. 8 (male), Red Sea, Andaman Is., Malay Archipelago. 



We have 5 specimens from Pago Pago and one from Apia. Life colors of one from Pago Pago, 

 dark olive; side with about 6 to 8 dark lengthwise stripes, the 3 or 4 lowermost more continuous and 

 regular, the upper very wavy, these interosculating with each other so that the back and region 

 behind head show dark network; 6 paired blackish cross-shades on back and sides; fins dull 

 olive; dorsals separate, the first with oblique dashes at base and a dusky edge, second with oblique 

 streaks like those on body, the edge pale; caudal dusky; anal pale, the edge dark; pectoral and 

 ventral rather pale; head with vertical marblings; 2 converging lines on base of caudal. Dorsal 

 xii-24. Differing from current descriptions in having no crest; tentacles small. The other specimens 

 have a high crest. 



Another specimen from Pago Pago was blackish olive, with a bright yellow or tawny shade in life; 

 5 or 6 diffuse cross-shades on back; side with 4 or 5 series of short oblong horizontal dashes of 



