FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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posterior margin of maxillary nearly reaching below middle of pupil; nostrils very small, well 
separated, in front of eye; gill-opening a short vertical slit; dorsal spines flexible, hardly distinguish¬ 
able from rays, and of about equal height; posterior dorsal and anal rays broadly joined to caudal by 
membrane; caudal rounded, 1.5 in head; pectoral rounded, 1.3; ventral long, of 2 rays, and reach¬ 
ing two-thirds the length of space to origin of anal; no lateral line; head and body naked. Color in 
life (No. 03551), uniformly black; in alcohol, very dark brown, almost bl'ackish, with very faint or 
indistinct markings on side; caudal and pectoral grayish. 
A diminutive inhabitant of the coral reefs of the Hawaiian Islands; found also in Samoa. We 
have 20 specimens from Honolulu (18 of them collected by Jenkins) and 7 collected by us on the 
reef at Waikiki. The Albatross also found it at Honolulu. 
Pchnscirles alcr Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, 199, 1S77. Tahiti. 
Aspidtmhtz Irunneolus Jenkins, Bull l*. S. Fish Comm.. XXII. 1909 iSept. 2:1, 1903). 510, fit;. 50, No. 50718 r. s. Nat. Mils,: 
coll. O. P. Jenkins, Honolulu; Snyder, op. fit. (Jan. 19, 1901), 536 (Honolulu). 
Genus 249. SALARIAS Cuvier. 
Teeth uniform, in 1 row only, strong, close-set, compressed laterally, hooked on the end, 
extremely long and thin and in great number; no canines. In the young individuals the teeth are 
arranged like a harpsichord; head compressed on top; upper lip fleshy and swollen; forehead entirely 
vertical; intestines spiral, more slender and longer than in other Blennies. 
Sabarias Cuvier. Rig no Animal, Ed. 2, II, 238, 1829 ( quadripiiinis ). 
Scartcn Jordan & Evermann, Check-List Fishes, 471,1896 ( rubropiiiirtatm ); name preoccupied. 
Sbarlichthys Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amor., III. 2395.1898 {nibripunctatus ). 
a. Dorsal fin connected with caudal; D. xui, 22........ . zebra, p. 501 
aa. Dorsal not connected with caudal. 
b. Dorsal xir, 21; anal 23: body elongate..... edentulus , p. 503 
419. Salarias zebra Vaillant & Sauvage. Figs. 223 and 223a. 
Head 4.4 in length; depth 4.8; eye 4.5 in head; snout 2.75; width of mouth 2; interorbital 3 in 
eye; D. xm, 22; A. 25; P. 14; V. 2. 
Body elongate, comprised, its greatest depth at middle of belly; depth of head 1.2 in its length; 
width of head 1.25; cheeks swollen; anterior profile very steep, vertical, convex; mouth very broad, 
Fin. 223 .—salarias zebra Vaillant A Sauvage. 
low, slightly inferior; maxillary reaching a little beyond middle of eye; teeth very fine, villiform, 
movable, and forming an edge; lips rather fleshy, covering the teeth; eye high and anterior in head, 
with a fleshy appendage above equal to the snout; top of head with a high fleshy median flap, its base 
equal to width of mouth: nostrils small, close together, anterior with short flap; interorbital space 
very narrow, concave; spinous dorsal beginning just before posterior margin of gill-opening, and just 
behind flap on top of head; dors 1 spines flexibliv-basc of fin 3.25 in trunk; fifteenth dorsal ray 1.2 in 
head, and third spine 1.5; eighth anal ray 1.75; caudal long, rounded, 3.9; pectoral with lower rays 
longest, fin pointed, equal to head; ventral short, of 2 broad rays, 1.8 in head; lateral line strongly 
