THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 



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288. Corythroichthys sealei Jordan & Shirks, new .-peri,-,-. Samoa. 



Head 7.50; snout equal to distance from middle of eye to posterior margin of opercle, the snout 

 narrow, being scarcely one-half of eye; forehead rather abrupt; rings 16 h :«2; dorsal 32 high, th< 

 rays being equal to or greater than depth of fish, the base of the tin not, elevated; no crest on head or 

 snout; only a trace of a single raised line across opercle; rings of body with six faces, those of the tail 

 with four; distance in front of anal fin 1.75 in posterior part of body; depth 2.75 in head, slightly 

 greater than the width; the egg sac in the male occupies the ventral portion of the sixteenth to 

 twenty-eighth ring; length of dorsal slightly less than width of eye; caudal pin-shaped, :i in head. 

 anal minute, directly below third ray of dorsal. 



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Fig. 18. — Corytliroickthys seah i Jordan & Starks, now species. Type. 



Color in life light gray spotted with reddish brown and lighter gray; snout and caudal whitish; 

 heail barred below. Color in spirits whitish, each ring with a branched greenish spangle "ii side and 

 top, under surface white; two distinct greenish lines along side of head across opercle to base of 

 pectoral, the lower one of these lines extending slightly out on the snout; top of head marked into a 

 number (10) of irregular squares by narrow dark lines; four rings of minute dots around snout: a dark 

 elongate black area on throat, more or less separated from a black ventral spot on first body ring; three 

 rows of small round dots on side of body below the branched greenish spots; dorsal tin with scat- 

 tered dots. 



Three specimens from Apia, the type no. 51722, U. S. National Museum, 3.25 inches long. 



289. Corytriroichthys mataafse Jordan & Seale, new species. 



Head 11.75; snout 3 in head, narrow, width about 2 in eye; eye 3.75 in head; interorbital very nar- 

 row, less than one-half width of eye; rings 15+34, the minute anal fin being on the 15th ring, in the male 

 the egg sac occupying the ventral surface of rings 15 to 2t>; body seven-sided, the tail but four; dorsal 



Fig. 19. — Corythroichthys mataafse Jordan & Seale, new species, Type. 



21, its base not elevated; opercle without a bony ridge extending across it but with numerous radiating 

 rows of pits, the widest point of opercle with a short dermal flap; medial line of snout with a distinct 

 crest with six teeth, the height of crest being slightly less than width of pupil on anterior half of 

 snout, the crest not toothed; no interorbital crest, a short, fringed, dermal tentacle over each eye. it- 

 length less than width of interorbital; a single fringed tentacle on middle of nuchal region; a pair of 

 short tentacles just below and a little posterior to e\ e, another pair below middle of snout; a rim-like 

 projection over upper margin of opercle; snout rather pug-like in shape; pectoral less in length than 

 width of opercle; caudal short, about equal to eye; anal minute. 



Color whitish, each ring on each of its faces with an oval, brown-rimmed spot of silvery: under 

 surface of tail whitish; snout with 2 rings of dusky; about5 dusky cross lines under throat: about 5 

 radiating dusky lines in eye and over head. 



