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Another specimen from Pago Pago was translucent, bright grass-green, with orange-brown specks 

 on each scale along side; 12 orange-brown short bars along back, on each side of dorsal a black bar 

 across nape and opercle and one behind eye; orange dashes under chin; a scarlet bar, sharply denned, 

 across base of pectoral, deep green before it; five dark violet-brown bars across base of anal; dorsal 

 brownish, the spines dull orange, the first soft ray dusky; caudal greenish barred with orange; anal 

 violet brown; pectoral and anal green; throat deep blue-green, with a heart-shaped orange spot; anal 

 papilla deep green. 



Color in spirits, yellowish white, the scales usually margined with black dots; a characteristic 

 marking is the presence of two large distinct black spots on posterior nuchal region above the 

 opercle; in addition to these spots there are 13 dark band-like spots on the dorsal surface; nuchal 

 region and upper part of head shaded with small dots; 6 indistinct dark blotches along base of anal 

 and lower margin of caudal peduncle; a dusky band-like blotch at base of caudal fin; excepting the 

 pectorals all the fins have a slight shading of dusky, the anal being the darkest; the caudal with four 

 dusky bands. 



Twelve specimens from Pago Pago. The type is no. 51764, U. S. National Museum, length 1 

 inch. 

 1424. Eviota distigrna Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 3.10 in length; depth 4.10; eye 3.18 in head; dorsal vi, 9; anal 9; scales 24. 



Body elongate, compressed; caudal peduncle 2.10 in head; mouth rather small, maxillary not 

 reaching to below middle of eye; minute sharp teeth in the jaws; intromittant organ of males 





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Fig. 79.— Eviota distign 



•dun & Seale, new species. Type. 



prominent; origin of spinuous dorsal nearer snout than posterior axil of soft dorsal; the two anterior 

 dorsal spines elongate and filiform, reaching when in repose the posterior axil of soft dorsal; the base 

 of the fin 1.50 in head; base of soft dorsal 1.45 in head, the longest ray 1.75 in head; base of anal 2.80 

 in head, its longest ray 1.75; pectorals slightly longer than head; ventrals of about equal length and 

 extending to tip of anal fin; caudal rounded, 1.20 in head. 



A very small fish from the crevices of the coral reefs at Pago Pago. Easily known by the two 

 black spots at the base of the pectoral, these rarely faint or obsolete. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, translucent gray, with faint bluish green anteriorly; 

 small orange spots with many black points; interior blackish transverse bars showing through 

 distinctly. 



Color in spirits yellowish white, with slight shading of dusky. The type specimen has two dis- 

 tinct round spots on base of pectoral, a black spot on side of caudal peduncle with an indistinct 

 vertical band through it and around peduncle; two black spots above opercle; about 10 black 

 blotches taking the form of short bands over the back, in some specimens extending indistinctly to 

 ventral surface; 6 dusky band-like spots along base of anal and caudal peduncle; margin of the scales 

 usually shaded with minute brown dots; opercle and nuchal region with brown blotches, some form- 

 ing more or less irregular lines; the 2 dorsal fins about equally shaded with dusky; pectoral white; 

 caudal, anal, and ventral with dusky shadings. 



