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of cross bars on the body and tail as well as small ocelli: dorsals and i)ectorals 

 show traces of spots; ventrals plain; anal with dusky punctulations; first 

 dorsal spine not produced, but last rays of second dorsal and middle rays of 

 cautlal ])roduced. In the female the colors are similar to the above, but with 

 what appears to have been a white-edged black blotch on spinous dorsal; the 

 rays are now detached and this mark is not definite; second dorsal and caudal 

 not so much produced. Neither specimen shows traces of spots on anal. 



BLENNIDAE. 

 Enneapterygius atriceps /^.Ik.nkixs). 



Ti-iiilcri/yion a/zva/w .Iexkixs, Bull. V . S. V]>\i. (.'(Muih , I'Ki:;, 22, p. .50."), tig. 4(.i. 



One specimen slightly over one inch long from Ponapi, Caroline Ishuuls. 



This specimen agrees so closely with tlu> ty])e specimens of E. ati-ice]).s, 

 with which it has been compared, that we identify it as that species, although it 

 differs somewhat in the vertical fin counts. Head 3.3; eye 3.25; dorsal III- 

 XIII-10: A. I, 17; scales 32 or 33. The coloration is the same as in the type. 



Hypleurochilus vaillanti .liiiu).\.\ & Se.\le. 

 Bull. r. .S. Bur. Fi.sh., HlOli, 25, p 42(1 



One specimen. M. C. Z. 29377, fo inch long from Lagoon at Fakarava, 

 Paumotu Islands. 



One specimen, lio inches long from P()na])i, ("ai'oline Islands. 



An examination of the type, Xf). 517SS, U. S. N. AI., from Pago Pago, 

 Samoa, shows that it has the dorsal XII, IS (not XII, 15, as given in description 

 by Jordan & Seale), and the anal 19 (not 17). Oui- specimens agree with this, 

 except that there ajipear to be 20 anal rays in the smaller specimen. 



Alticus periophthalmus iCrviKH & \ ai knciennes). 



.l.iiu).\N A .Se.^lk. Bull. r. S. Bur. l''isli., I'.lOli, 25. p. fJl'. 



S«/nrM.s- lUTinjMmlmus Cvv. & V.\L.. Hi.sl. Xat. Pois.s., l.sati, 11, p. 2:50 (:ill), pi, :52S. CIi'ntmku, 

 Fischc der Sudscp, 1,S77, 6, p. 207, I af . 1 14, fig.s, D, E. Day, Fishe-s of India, 187(3, )), :5:5;3. pi. Hit, fij;, o. 



Xo. ()590(j, a specimen 2i inches long from Makemr). Paumotu Islands. 



