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Color in spirits, a light mottled brownish, lighter below; a distinct row of black blotches along 

 the side, these blotches about 14 in number, and all more or less connected; anterior to pectoral 

 tin these blotches take the form of a dusky band, across the side of head and around the snout; 

 another very indistinct dusky band about the width of eye above the blotches on sides, also 

 extends out of upper side of head, and around upper part of snout; some specimens show about 7 

 whitish cross-bands over the back; spinous dorsal yellowish with about 5 oblique lines of dark dots; 

 soft dorsal with dark lines reticulating in many ways, forming ring-like figures around white dots; 

 caudal fin colored like soft dorsal, except that the dark lines run more regularly, forming 7 or 8 

 irregular cross-bands; anal uniform dusky; pectoral yellowish, crossed with about 8 narrow lines of 

 dusky; ventral yellowish. 



A beautiful little goby found on the bottom of swift streams near Apia. Its motions are remark- 

 ably lizard-like, and the pale yellow spots glisten as the fish moves. Seen in the Vaisigano River, 

 the Gasegase River, and the Vailima Brook, from which we have 19 specimens. AVe have one from 

 Pago Pago. It was abundant in the Vailima Brook on the estate of Robert Louis Stevenson, for whom 

 the species is named. 



The type is no. 51775, U. S. National Museum, from Gasegase River, at Vaimosa, Samoa, length 

 2 inches. 



DEOMBTJS Jordan & Seale. 



This genus, typified by D. palacbji from the Philippines, has the head crossed with rows of cirri 

 as in Mars and in Gobiomorphus. The scales are much larger than in Mars, and the ventrals are 

 united. There are no teeth'on the vomer. 



1449. Drornbus tutuilse Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 2.75 in length; depth 4.5; eye 3.5 in head; snout 4.2; scales rather large, about 23 from pos- 

 terior margin of opercle; dorsal vi, 8; anal 8. 



Fig. 88. — Drombus tutuilx .Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



Body elongate, compressed, anterior profile rounded; lower jaw the longer, projecting; head 

 roughened with numerous raised lines of rather large size which radiate from eye; others cross the 

 cheek, snout, and nuchal region, these probably functioning as mucus canals; minute teeth in jaws, 

 none on vomer or palatines; caudal peduncle 2.6 in head; origin of spinous dorsal slightly posterior to 

 a line with axil of ventrals, the longest spine 2 in head; base of soft dorsal about equal to its longest 

 ray, 1.75 in head; anal similar to soft dorsal, its base slightly less; pectorals rounded, rather long, 

 the tips under base of fifth dorsal ray; ventrals united into a flat disk which reaches to anal opening; 

 caudal rounded, about 1.1 in head. 



Color in spirits, yellowish white, with 5 rather distinct vertical bands of black, the first at pos- 

 terior margin of opercle, the second from posterior half of spinous dorsal, the third from anterior 

 half of soft dorsal, the fourth from posterior half of soft dorsal obliquely down to axil of anal, the fifth 

 at base of caudal fin; there is also a dusky bloch on nuchal region just back of eye; top of head more 

 or less dusky; fins slightly darker than the body coloring, the dark bands of the body extending more 

 or less upon the dorsal fins; otherwise the fins apparently without distinct markings. 



One specimen from Pago Pago, type no. 51770, U. S. National Museum, length 0.75 inch. 



