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spine with 3 brown crossbands; pectoral grayish with a blackish brown basal blotch and 5 blackish 
crossbands; ventral blackish with 2 whitish or grayish blotches. 
This species is especially characterized by the unspotted soft dorsal, anal, and caudal. From 
Dendrochirus barberi Steindachner, it is distinguished by the longer pectoral which reaches to below 
the posterior dorsal rays. 
Named for Capt. C. B. Hudson, in recognition of the excellence of his paintings of Hawaiian 
fishes. 
We have examined 5 specimens of this species, as follows: 
Field 
No. 
Length. 
Locality. 
Final disposition of specimen. 
03547 
Indies. 
1.8 
Waikiki 
Type, No. 50652, U. S. N. M. 
651 
1.9 
Reef near Honolulu 
Cotvpe, No. 7407, L. S. Jr. Unlv. Mils. 
052 
1.9 
Honolulu 
Cotype, No. 2718, U. S. F. C. 
O.P. J. 
301 
4 
do 
3.5 
do 
Family GOBIIDiE. The Gobies. 
QinSQJJILIUS Jordan & Evermann, new genus. 
Quisquilius Jordan & Evermann, new genus of Gobiidx ( eugenius ). 
Allied to Asterropteryx. Body robust, covered with large, ctenoid scales; snout blunt; mouth large, 
very oblique, with 2 series of sharp teeth in jaws, the inner depressible; side of head with several 
series of short papillary fringes; ventrals separate, their rays i, 5, joined at base by a narrow frenum; 
dorsals short, the first with 6 spines, the second with 12 short rays. 
The genus is distinguished from other small Eleotrids by the papillary fringes on preorbital, jaws, 
and opercles. 
50. Quisquilius eugenius Jordan & Evermann, new species. 
Head 2.8 in length; depth 3.8; eye 3.25 in head; snout 4.25; width of mouth 2.4; interorbital 2 
in eye; D. vi-12; A. 10; V. i, 5; scales 25,-12. 
Body robust, compressed, greatest depth about middle of belly; head large, elongate, broad, depth 
1.4 in its length, width 1.25; snout short, blunt, rounded above; jaws large, lower projecting; mouth 
large, very oblique, its posterior margin reaching below front of eye; upper jaw with 2 series of 
teeth, sharp-pointed, outer larger, the inner depressible; mandible with teeth similar to those in 
upper jaw; no teeth on vomer and palatines; tongue truncate, front margin not notched; eye large, 
high, anterior; nostrils separated, anterior in small tube, posterior close to upper front margin of eye; 
interorbital space narrow, very deeply furrowed; a series of fringe-like papillae running from preorbital 
along upper margin of maxillary down behind corner of mouth where it joins another series running 
along under surface of mandible, and continued back and upward on margin of preopercle; anterior 
margin of opercle with a small vertical series of papillae, each papilla a little shorter than diameter of eye; 
gill-opening large, continued forward till nearly below posterior margin of eye; spinous dorsal rather 
small, spines flexible, with tips produced in short filaments; soft dorsal high, median rays rather 
longer than others; anal more or less similar to soft dorsal, posterior rays very long; caudal rather 
large, round; pectoral broad, round, equal to head; ventrals small, 1.25 in head, sharp-pointed, and 
joined at base of inner rays by a narrow frenum; caudal peduncle compressed, its length 1.6 in head, 
depth 2.4; scales large, ctenoid, those on upper part of head very small; snout, interorbital space, 
jaws, and lower surface of head naked; no lateral line. 
Color in life (field No. 03554), body with transverse bands of dark brown with olivaceous tinge 
alternating with dirty white; edges of scales in dark brown portions lighter; dorsal, anal, and caudal 
dark brown, edged in part with white; pectoral light reddish brown. 
Color in alcohol, brown; 12 dark brown crossbands on side, the last 6 very broad, much broader 
than the pale interspaces; vertical fins dark slaty; pectoral pale slaty; ventral pale on outer posterior 
portion, blackish slaty on inner. 
