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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Life colors of a specimen from Vaisigano River, dark olive, with lighter yellowish olive; no bright 

 colors. Dorsal vi-i, 9. 



Color in spirits, olive-brown, lighter below, 7 dusky blotches along median line of sides, and about 

 6 narrow blackish longitudinal lines along middle of scales; a black spot on base of pectoral with a 

 short black line below it; head more or less mottled with black blotches, some lighter dots and lines 

 on lower jaw;, spinous dorsal yellowish, a broad black band crossing its upper third; soft dorsal dusky 

 yellow with about 5 indistinct blackish oblique bands; caudal with about 6 vertical dusky bands, the 

 lower part of the bands being the broader; anal colored similar to soft dorsal; pectoral yellowish with 

 indication of 5 or 6 narrow darker lines; ventrals dusky with white margin. 



This species has the form, general coloration, and forked tongue of the Japanese species, Glossogo- 

 bius brunneus, but it differs in some details of coloration, notably the presence of dark lengthwise 



streaks. 



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Fig. WJ. — Glossngobius vaisiganis Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



Four specimens from the lower reaches of Vaisigano River at Apia, and one specimen from Pago 



Pago. The type is no. 51774, TJ. S. National Museum, from Vaisigano River, near Apia, length 3 



inches. 



CH^NOGOBIUS Gill. 



We refer a Samoan species to this Japanese genus. It agrees with the type in the elongate body, 

 the small scales, the projecting lower jaw, notched tongue, and in the short fins, the dorsal having but 

 6 spines. 

 1464. Chsenog-obius erythrops Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. (PI. xxxvn, fig. 3.) 



Head 3.1 in length; depth 5.5; eye 3.2 in head; dorsal vi, 9; anal 7; scales about 41 counting from 

 posterior margin of opercle; snout 3.4 in head. 



Body elongate, compressed; snout pointed, the under jaw decidedly the longer; mouth large, the 

 angle under the anterior margin of eye; teeth in jaws in a single row, with some of the anterior ones 

 enlarged and distinct; teeth on vomer, none on palatines; tongue notched at tip; opercle and preopercle 

 entire; anal papilla distinct; depth of caudal peduncle 2.7 in head; spinous dorsal with its origin above 

 base of ventrals, its longest spine 2 in head; base of soft dorsal 1.75 in head, its longest ray about 2; 

 anal similar to soft dorsal, its base and length of rays slightly less; origin of anal about midway between 

 eye and base of caudal fin; pectoral 1.75 in head; in the type specimen the upper 5 rays are not 

 connected except on basal half, but they may have been torn loose accidentally; ventrals united, 

 disk-shaped; the anterior membrane with 2 points, the diameter of disk 2 in head; caudal rounded, 

 1.75 in head. 



Life color, pearly white above; sides darker and with black points; eye rosy around pupil; rosy 

 longitudinal preocular bars on head. 



Color in spirits, almost uniform white, with scattered fine dots like pin points, a slight dusky 

 blotch at base of caudal, one on snout, and another posterior to eye; markings all indistinct; fins 

 without markings, except some very fine scattered dots like pin pricks. 



One specimen, from Pago Pago, type no. 51781, U. S. National Museum, length 0.6 inch. 



AWAOUS Steindachner. 

 Les Awaous Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 95, 1837 (ocellaris, etc.). 

 Awaous Valenciennes, Steindachner, Verb. Akad. Wiss. Wien 1860, 289, after Cuvier & Valen- 

 ciennes, no explanation; no type named, reference to Valenciennes implied. 



