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broad black mark on posterior third. Veiitrals dark above and on 

 posterior third. Soft dorsal and caudal yellowish, with brownish 

 lines or dots. Anal yellow. Two specimens, length 4-6 inches. 

 Guam, July 13, rgoo. Hat. Seas of India to Malay Archipelago, 

 Marianas. 



Family AGONID^.— Sea-po.\chers. 



Genus PE^RCIS Scopoli. 



261-62. Percis cephalopunctatus sp. nov. Pipupu. 



Head 3.66 ; depth 6.30; eye 4.66 ; snout 2.66 ; interorbital 3 

 into eye; U. iv 21 ; A. 17 ; V. i 5. Scales 71. Mandible 2.15. 

 The lower jaw the longer. Two opercular spines. Body some- 

 what elongate and sub-cylindrical. Head somewhat depressed. 

 Villiform teeth in jaws and vomer, none on palatines; outer row in 

 jaws somewhat enlarged with three canines on each side in anterior 

 part of lower jaw. Branchiostegals 6. Pseudobranchi^e present. 

 Scales ctenoid. The spinous dorsal is scarcely connected with soft 

 dorsal. Gill membranes connected at isthmus. The second dorsal 

 spine the longest, equal to orbit. Fins: Caudal slightly rounded. 

 Pedlorals 1.50 into head. Base of anal 1.50 into base of dorsal. 

 Ventrals 1.15 into head. Color in spirits: Upper surface greenish, 

 with 9 indistinct darker lines over the back. Below axis the color is 

 yellowish white with 9 greenish bands; the upper parts of these bands 

 are all united by a narrow greenish line on the axis extending from 

 axis of pe(5torals to lower part of caudal fin; just above this line and 

 alternating with the green bands of the lower half are 9 greenish 

 spots almost as large as eye, which have wide yellowish white mar- 

 gins; these extend from pectoral fin to caudal. A large brown spot 

 at base of pectoral fins. Tw^o brown spots on lower part of opercle. 

 Four large brown spots on cheeks, and two or more on jaws. About 

 fourteen small brown dots, smaller than pupil, scattered over snout 

 and top of head. Spinous dorsal white. Soft dorsal with three rows 

 of brown spots. Caudal with a big dark brown blotch on its basal 

 half, with scattered brown dots around it. Pe(5torals, ventrals and 

 anal white. Three specimens, length 4-5.50 inches. Guam, June 

 14, 1900. Hab. Marianas. 



Family GOBIID^.— Gobies. 



Genus BI^EOTRIS (Gronow) Block & Schneider. 



263-66. Eleotris fusca (Bl.). 



Head 3; depth 4; eye 6.30: snout 3.66; D. vi 9; A. 9. Scales 

 rather small, about 62 series behind pectoral fin. Preopercle with 

 blunt spine bent down and forward. Body subcjdindrical, head 

 oblong. Teeth in setiform bands, none on vomer or palatines. 



