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the brown dots, especially on the cheek, belly, and thorax are modified into distinct ocelli, the center 

 being a black dot with the surrounding ring of brown; the cheek and a line to tip of snout are deep 

 black; no dark bands on the body, but traces of about 5 indistinct whitish blotches; dorsal fins 

 slightly shaded with 5 dark dots without lines; pectoral and caudal very dark, without bars or spots; 

 anal also thickly dotted with fine black specks, but not so dark as caudal or pectoral; eye golden with 

 one dark line through its length. 



This species is very near T. pardoclvir and an examination of a series may prove them to be identical. 



Fig. 97. — Enncniitcvyciuis tusitakc Jordan <fc Seale, new species. Type. 



We have about 10 specimens from the reef at Apia. Type no. 51800, TJ. S. National Muaaum, 

 from Pago Pago, length 0.85 inch. Named for the "tusitala" (story-teller) of Samoa, Robert Louis 

 Stevenson. 



1575. Enneapterygius pardochir Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 3.5 in length; depth 4.14; eye 3.1 in head; snout 4.5 in head; interorbital narrow, one-half 

 as wide as eye; dorsal m-xi-9; anal 18; scales 33; lateral line short, ending under posterior third of 

 second dorsal. 



Body elongate, compressed, scaled; depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head; the lower anterior profile 

 of head slightly produced; angle of mouth under anterior third of eye; snout rather pointed and beak- 



Emieapleryffius pardochir Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



like; minute teeth in jaws; a minute simple tentacle over eye and at nostril; middle of first dorsal over 

 the posterior margin of opercles; base of second dorsal slightly greater than length of head, its longest 

 spine 1.9 in head; 2 rows of scales between the second and third dorsal; base of third dorsal 1.4 in 

 head, its longest ray 2 in head, its distal end some distance from the caudal; a very prominent anal 

 papilla modified into an intromittent organ in males; anal fin rather long, its base 2.5 in length of fish, 

 its origin under the base of the sixth spine of second dorsal and its distal end on a line with end 

 of soft dorsal, the origin of the fin nearer tip of snout than base of caudal; pectoral equal to length of 

 head, its tip under the ninth spine of second dorsal; ventral 1.5 in head, its origin anterior to base of 

 pectoral; caudal rounded, 1.5 in head. 



Life colors of various specimens were as follows: 



(1) From Apia. Cherry-red with darker bars, most distinct and paired alongside; iris scarlet: 

 fins all reddish, barred with brown; a black dot surrounded by pale at base of caudal. 



