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few scattered dusky blotches on spinous dorsal; anal with margin of white with intramarginal area of 

 dusky, other fins unmarked. 



One specimen, the type no. 31794, U. S. National Museum, from Apia, length If inches. Named for 

 William Alanson Bryan, curator in the Bernice Pauahi Museum, in Honolulu 



1616. Salarias gilberti Bryan & Herre. Marcus I. 



Salarias gilberti Bryan & Herre, Occ. Papers Bishop Museum, II, 1903, 137, Marcus I. 



1617. Salarias marcusi Bryan & Herre. Marcus I. 



Salarias marcusi Bryan & Herre, Occ. Papers Bishop Museum, ii, 1903, 137, Marcus I. 



1618. Salarias paulus Bryan & Herre. Marcus I. 



Salarias paulus Bryan & Herre, Occ. Papers Bishop Museum, u, 1903, 136, Marcus I. 



1619. Salarias holomelas Giinther. Palauls.; Vavau. 



1 Salarias fuscus Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische, 135, taf. 32, fig. 2, 1835, Red Sea. 



t Salarias ruficaudus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat.Poiss., xi, 328, 1836. Red Sea, 



f Salarias phxosoma Bleeker, Batoe, 317, Batoe. 



Salarias tiolomclas Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1872, Cebu. 



Salarias fuscus, Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 202, taf. 116, fig. c, 1873, Palau,Vavu:i. 



This strongly marked species is not represented in our collections. It is close to Salarias fuscus of 

 the Red Sea, but we may retain it as a different species, as according to Dr. Giinther the caudal is 

 black in S. holomelas and yellow in S. fuscus. 



1620. Salarias atratus Macleay. New Guinea. 

 Salarias atratus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1882-3, 361. 



1621. Salarias goesi Bleeker. New Guinea. 



EXALLIAS Jordan & Evermann. 



Exallias Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxm, 1903 (1905), 503 {Salarias brevis 

 Kner). 



1622. Exallias brevis (Kner). Mano' o gatala. Samoa; Hawaii. 



Salarias brevis Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1866, 334, taf. 16, fig. 18, Savaii. Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 203, taf. 

 118, fig. c; after Kner. Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1903), 506, Honolulu. 



Of this species only 15 specimens are known, 14 from Hawaii, the other from Savaii. We obtained 

 no specimens in Samoa, but Dr. T. D. Wood obtained in Honolulu one specimen, which is now in the 

 Stanford University Museum. 



PETROSCIRTES Riippell. 



Petroscirtes Ruppell, Atlas Fische, 110, 1828 (mitratus). 



Blennechis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., x, 1836, 279 (filamentosus) . 

 Aspidontus (Cuvier) Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, in, 1834, 719 (Uenialus). 

 Omobranchus (Ehrenberg, pi. xi, fig. 91) Swainson, Class. Fishes, n, 1839, 274 (fasciolalus). 



1623. Petroscirtes longifilis Kner. Samoa. 



f Petroscirtes mitratus Ruppell, Atlas Fische, in, taf. 28, fig. 1, 1828, Red Sea. Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 198, 



Samoa. 

 t Petroscirtes barbatus Peters, Wiegmann's Archiv, 1855, 218, Mozambique. 

 f Petroscirtes hypselopterus Bleeker, Amboina, vi, 423, Amboina. 

 Petroscirtes longifilis Kner, Sitz, Ak. Wiss. Wien 1866, liv, 5, Samoa. 



Life color of a specimen from Apia olivaceous, with broad dark cross-bars; head much banded 

 below; dorsal yellowish, barred and spotted with black; anal similar; caudal pale with cross-bars of 

 dots; ventral long, dotted or barred, as is the pectoral. Dorsals 2, the first short and elevated in front. 



We have 2 specimens of this fish from Apia. Dr. Giinther identifies it with P. mitratus, thus 

 throwing nearly all the species with elevated anterior dorsal spines into one, an arrangement open to 

 serious question. We may provisionally retain the name longifilis, applied to a Samoan specimen. 



1624. Petroscirtes fllamentosus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Papau; Paumotu Is.; Huahine; East 



Indies. 



Blennechis fllamentosus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 280, 1836, pi. 326, Papua. 

 Pelrosctrtcs fllamentosus, Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, 196, taf. 114, fig. B, 1873, Paumotu. Huahine. 

 Petroscirtes rostratus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neederl., n, 62, Amboina. 



