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Color in spirits yellowish white, a broad deep brown band from tip of snout to tip of caudal on 

 and below the median line of body; this band is broader and diffused along base of anal fin; tip of 

 under jaw dusky; the base of anal and the dorsals with indistinct dusky band-like spots at the base 

 of each ray and spine; three or four dark spots on caudal above the black band; posterior ray of 

 dorsal with a black spot on its middle portion; remaining fins white, unmarked. 



Two specimens from Pago Pago. The type is no. 51773, U. S. National Museum, length 1 inch. 



1430. Hetereleotris phaenna Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. (PI. xxxvi, fig. 3.) 

 Head 3.12 in length; depth 5; eye 4.50 in head; snout 4.50; dorsal VI, 10; anal i, 10; no scales. 

 Body elongate, compressed, snout rounded, with dull point, the lower jaw being the longer; 



angle of mouth under anterior half of eye; mouth rather large, with minute pointed teeth in the jaws; 

 depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head; opercles and preopercles entire; origin of spinous dorsal slightly 

 posterior to line with axil of ventrals; base of spinous dorsal 1.75 in head, its longest spine 2.50 in 

 head; base of soft dorsal 1.10 in head, its longest ray 2.10 in head; base of anal 1.75 in head, its origin 

 about midway between base of pectorals and base of caudal; pectorals scarcely equal to length of head; 

 origin of ventrals below axil of pectoral, their tips reaching to anal opening; ventrals separate, joined 

 at base; caudal long, its rays graduate to tip, length greater than head. 



Color in life, black below, the top of the head and the back abruptly white. 



Color in spirits, the upper third of body and head white, the lower two-thirds black, the black 

 running out on lower half of caudal fin, and the white running around tip of head, the black coloring 

 on base of pectorals, and to some extent on sides of head taking the form of deep black spots; fins all 

 yellowish white, except the black on lower part of caudal. 



One specimen, the type, 0.75 inch, from the reef at Pago Pago, no. 51786, U. S. National Museum. 



VITHEOLA Jordan & Seale, new genus. 

 VUreola Jordan & Seale, new genus of Gobiidse ( V. sar/itta) . 



This genus is distinguished from Hetereleotris by the very slender, naked body and the form of the 

 head and dorsal fin. The body is slender and perfectly translucent, the head sharply pointed, the 

 point being formed by the very heavy lower jaw. 



1431. Vitreola sag-itta Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. (PI. xxxvn, fig. 1.) 



Head (to tip of under jaw) 3.50 in length; depth 9; eye situated on dorsal surface of head, 2 in 

 snout; dorsal vi, 13; anal i, 13; snout 6 in head; the anterior projection of lower jaw about equal in 

 length to snout. 



Body elongate, compressed; anterior profile of head formed by the long, conical projection of the 

 lower jaw; opening of mouth on the dorsal profile; the angle of jaws under anterior margin of eye; 

 minute teeth in jaws and palatines, tongue deeply bilobed; the lower membrane of opercles, posterior 

 and lower margin of preopercles, the upper and lower jaw all have distinct tooth-like fringes on their 

 marginal membrane; depth of caudal peduncle 5 in head; origin of dorsal on line with tip of pectorals, 

 the fin incised to one-half its depth, the anterior spines being placed much nearer each other than the 

 posterior spines; the base of dorsal is 1.75 in length of fish without caudal; base of anal 2.75, its origin 

 slightly nearer to base of caudal than to eye, its longest ray 3 in head; pectoral very short, about 4 in 

 head; ventrals separate, short, 2.50 in head, their origin slightly anterior to origin of pectorals; caudal 

 rounded, 1.90 in head. 



In life, clear translucent white without dots or color of any sort. 



Color in spirits white, shaded above the median line with an irregular band of brownish dots 

 which extend from snout to base of caudal; fins white, unmarked. 



Three specimens from Pago Pago. The type, 1.45 inches long, is no. 51784, IT. S. National Museum. 



PERIOPHTHALMUS Bloch & Schneider. 



1432. Periophthalmus barbarus Linnaeus. Mano'o; Talae. Samoa; Fiji; Waigiu, Oualan; Tonga; 



Palau Is.; New Guinea; Fate (Seale); East Indies. (Fig. 1, p. 174.) 

 Gobius barbarus Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. xir, 450. 1766, no locality. Pectorals fan-shaped; dorsal xu-13. 

 Periophthalmus koelreuteri Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 65, 1801, locality unknown. 

 Periophthalmus katolo Lesson, Voy. Coquille, III, 146. 1S30. "Waigiu, New Ireland, Oualan. 

 PerioptUhalmus argentitineatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 191, Oualan, New Guinea, Ira wad dy R. 



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