322 KXPEDITIOX OF THK • Al.r.ATKOSS." ISW-lOOn. 



ocellus at base of caudal inunecliately above lateral line; the iiulistiiict clouded 

 effect on the back corresponds to pairs of bars on the belly: some black on both 

 dorsals, too l)adly torn to detei'minc piittcrii: ventrals and anals slij>;litly dusky. 



Gobiodon histrio ( Kiiii, ^; \'ax Hasslet). 



Oi'xTHEH, Cat., 1861, 3, p. 88. 



Gobius histrio Kuhl A: V.\x H.\ssij;t, Cuvier & ^■.\I,E^•(•lEX^Es'.s, Hist. Xat. Poiss., 1S;{7. 12, p. 

 100, (132), pi. 347, lower fig. 



Eight specimens, part of No. OoUlS. 1 to I5 inches lonti from l''akarava, 

 Paumotu Islands, M. C Z. 29524 (4 specimens). 



Description of largest specimen: DorsaM'I, 11: anal 10: hcvid 3.;^(> in body; 

 d("])th 2.(il: depth of heatl in head .0: eye 4.75: maxillary reaching very 

 slightly, if any, beyond a line from front margin of orl)it, not from the pu]iil; 

 body strongly compressed: profile rounded. 



Colors, dark brown witii ligfitcr liead and breast somewhat dark(>r fins. 



Tliese si)ecimens have the general shape of G. atrangulatuH but with a smaller 

 mouth: they also have the general shape of Giinther's figure in Fische der Siidsee 

 of G. ceramensis, l)Ut in our specimens the dorsals are united, Sti'uctnrally 

 they agree better with the description in Cuvier & Valenciennes of (t. histrio 

 than with any other described species, except that there are no tubercles on the 

 head: since, however, these s]iecimi'ns do not now agriM^ in color, we provisionally 

 r(>fer them to G. histrio. 



Gobiodon atrangulatus (!ahmax. 

 Bull. Mii.«. Comp. Zool., 19(«, 39, p. 2:j4, pi. 2, fig. 2, 



Five specimens, No. 05918 — part, i to Is inches long from I'^akarava, 

 Paumotu Islands. M. C. Z. 29378 (2 specimens). 



Description of largest specimens, Dorsal \'I, 1 1 : anal 10: head ;5.5 in body; 

 depth 2.72; depth of head in head .97: eye 3.5: maxillary ext(>nding to below 

 middle of the eye: mouth larger than in G. rirulalits. ( 'olor, the two largest 

 specimens similar in color being liglil brown with l)lui>h linl in reflected light 

 and thickly sprinkled with line darker punclulations: vertical lins somewhat 

 dlisky: near the ti)) of each dors.-il >pine is a small black sjiot indic'itiiig tli;i1 it 



