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Four specimens, two from Apia, two from Pago Pago. 



Life colors of a Pago Pago specimen dark clear brown, the dorsal blackish; tip of tail bright yellow 

 Specimen caught in the coral by cracking the large growing heads. 



An Apia specimen was brown, lighter beneath; tip of tail bright yellow. 



Color in spirits, everywhere a uniform dark reddish brown darker above; tip of caudal and under 

 part of mandible pale. 



Type no. 51715, TJ. S. National Museum, 160 mm. in length, from Pago Pago. 



Fig. 9. — Anarchias allardzcei Jordan & Starks, new species. Type. 



225. Anarchias knig-hti Jordan & Starks, new species. Samoa. 



Head 9.5 in full length; depth 2.13 in head; snout short and moderately blunt, 7.25 in head: eye 

 1.2 to 1.5 in snout; length of mouth, 3 in head. Teeth in two series in the upper jaw, the outer 

 series more close-set, smaller and more regular than the inner, the inner series rather large, sharp, 

 and of unequal length; anteriorly a pair of median vomerine teeth similar to those on the inner row; 

 teeth of mandible in two rows and resembling those of upper jaw; tube of anterior nostril half 

 diameter of eye; gill-opening very small, smaller than pupil. Length of trunk contained 1.17 in tail. 



Fig. 10. — Anarchias knighli Jordan it Starks, ni 



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In spirits a network of dark lines covers the head and body over a ground color of slaty brown. 

 These in the type cover the body everywhere except under the mandible, which is white. In the 

 cotype the underparts are only slightly mottled, leaving them a soiled white. 



This species differs from A. allardicei particularly in having the body mottled, and in having a 

 slightly longer snout and mouth and a slightly larger eye. It is known from two examples taken at 

 Apia by Prof. Robert Edgar Allardice and Master Knight Starr Jordan. Type, uo. 51716 U.S. 

 National Museum, 115 mm. in length, and the cotype, 145 mm., both from Apia. 



