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In spirits our large series shows a great intergradation of color among the individuals of this 

 species, but the following marks are constant in all: 5 lines of black spots on the pectoral; 2 dusky 

 bands over the head, one directly behind the eye down to angle of mouth, the other over nuchal 

 region on posterior border of preopercle; caudal washed with dusky; anal with a dusky wash on 

 entire fin; body grayish, slightly tinted with blue to purplish, some specimens banded with darker gray, 

 others having scarcely a trace of bands; the type with 9 very distinct vertical dark bands, wider than 

 the interspaces, along the side of body; a number of round yellowish white spots over head and shoul- 

 ders; some pearl-blue spots on posterior part of body; a round spot on middle of body under anterior 

 of soft dorsal — some of the specimens not showing this spot at all, and others showing it only on one 

 side; dorsal (in type) with the brown bands of body extending up into the fin, a number of rather 

 indistinct narrow longitudinal lines on upper half of fin, the spinous dorsal tipped with black; some 

 'specimens with a row of dark spots along middle of dorsal, others with no black dots, but a large 

 number of fine narrow lines on outer half of fin, and between these in man}' forms our series show an 

 almost perfect gradation; belly usually with a more or less decided purplish wash. The younger 

 individuals show less of color markings, some being almost uniform gray on bod}'. 



Twenty-one specimens from Apia. The type is no. 51789, U. S. National Museum, length 3.5 

 inches. These specimens agree fairly with Salarias nitidus of Giinther's Fische der Siidsee, from 

 Samoa. The type of Salarias nitidus from the China Sea is apparently a different species. The species 

 resembles Alticus periophthalrrms, but may be known at once by the spotted pectoral. 



Named for Dr. Barton Warren Evermann. 



1589. Alticus caudolineatus (Giinther). Tahiti; Samoa; Makatea and Nukahiva (Seale). 

 Salarias caudolineatus Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 209, taf. 11G, fig. f, 1876, Otaheite. 



We have 3 specimens of this very handsome blenny from the reef at Apia, where it is the 

 commonest species in the coral pools, and 7 specimens from Pago Pago. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, gray; lengthwise dark olive streaks like pencil-marks on side; 

 no bright colors except on the crest, which is edged with orange-red; an orange dash on eye above; 

 9 transverse double brown bars on side, running from base of dorsal to the lowest lengthwise streak; 

 caudal with from 7 to 9 transverse rows of dark dots; dorsal pale; 3 rows of small dark dots running 

 longitudinally across both dorsals; traces of 2 more rows on the soft dorsal in some specimens; anal 

 pale, with a row of faint brown dots posteriorly, near the base of the rays; pectoral pale, unspotted. 



1590. Alticus aneitensis (Giinther). Aneiteum. 



Salarias aneitensis Giinther, Fische der Sudsee, 205, taf. 118, fig. a, 1876, Aneiteum. 



1591. Alticus g-ibbifrons (Quoy & Gaimard). Hawaii; Marcus I. 



Salarias gibbifrons Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 253, 1824, Maui. Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 



(1904) , 536, Honolulu, Hilo; not of Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Entomacrodus gibbifrons, Bryan & Herre, Bishop Museum, ir, 1903, 138, Marcus I. 

 Salarias saltans Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1904), 508, fig. 48 (male), Honolulu. 

 Salarias rutilus Jenkins, op. cit., 509, fig. 49 (female), Honolulu. 



1592. Alticus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard). Mano'o a'au. Samoa; Nukahiva (Seale). 



Salarias striatus (Quoy & Gaimard) Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 309, 1835, He de France. 

 Salarias marmoratus, Giinther, Fische der Sudsee, 204, taf. 116, fig. B; not type. 



Two specimens from Aua in Tutuila, the species occurring in the sea along the "iron-bound coast", 

 not in the coral reefs. 



Color in life, white ground-color with dark spots on side with purplish blue tinge; spots on caudal 

 smoky; belly white; head with a weak bluish streak behind eye; lower side of head with 3 white 

 stripes radiating from the throat on each side; dorsals irregularly and obliquely streaked with dark; 

 caudal with about 6 irregularly transverse rows of dark spots; anal pale, its edge dusky; pectoral 

 plain, uncolored. 



Dr. Giinther has evidently confused this species with Alticus marmoratus, which was described by 

 Bennett from the Sandwich islands, and has since been collected there by Dr. Jenkins, by Jordan & 

 Evermann, and by Professor Snyder at Laysan Island. Fishes from other localites described under the 

 name of S. marmoratus belong to still other species. This is apparently the species called Salarias 

 striatus by Quoy & Gaimard. but it is probably different from Salarias arciMtus Bleeker. It is called 

 "the outside skippy ", mano'o a'au in the Samoan vernacular. 



