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Medium-sized examples have the body with longitudinal rows of dark brown ©r dusky spots on the 
upper surface; dorsals and anal more or less dusky, with small spots on the basal portion of former; 
caudal and pectoral fins with many narrow dark-gray crossbars. Small examples show indistinct dark 
brown spots on side of body, and some very small ones have about 9 broad deep-brown cross-bands 
over the back when viewed from above, and the side specked and spotted with dark brown below its 
middle; a number of dark brown spots on chest; side of head with dark-brown lines; chin dusky. 
Some examples with black dots scattered along side of body, 
This interesting species is very abundant in fresh, brackish, and shallow water among the Hawaiian 
Islands. Our collection contains a very complete series of specimens, as follows: From Honolulu 445; 
Waianae 41, Waialua 21, Moanalua 5, Moana Hotel 4, Waikiki 1, Hilo 119, and Kailua 1. Of those 
from Honolulu, 384 are in the collection made by Doctor Jenkins and 2 in Doctor Wood’s. They 
vary in length from 1.2 to 9 inches. Numerous specimens were collected also by the Albatross at 
Honolulu, Waimea, and Hanalei; in Huleia and Hanapepe rivers in Kaui, and Anahulu River, Oahu. 
Eleotris sandwicensis Vaillant & Sauvage, Rev. Mag Zoot. (3), III, 1875, 280, Sandwich Islands (description erroneous; the 
concealed preopercuiar spines being overlooked); Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 499 
(Honolulu; Hilo); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 536 (Honolulu; Waimea, Hanalei, Huleia, and Hanapepe 
rivers, Kauai; Anahulu River, Oahu). 
Culms fascus, Streets, Bull. C. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 57, 1877 (fresh waters of Oahu); not of Bleeker. 
Eleotris fusca , Gunther, Rep. Shore Fishes Challenger, Zool., I, Part VI, 60, 1880 (Honolulu, fresh waters); Fowler, Proc. 
Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1900, 516 (Honolulu) (not Pcccilia fusca Bloch & Schneider, from Tahiti a species with 52 scales)'. 
Genus 231. ASTERROPTERYX Ruppell. 
Body short, deep, compressed, covered with large, nearly smooth scales; eyes moderate; mouth 
moderate, the teeth medium; chin prominent; no teeth on vomer; 4 or 5 blunt spines on preopercle; 
dorsals separate, the first of 6 spines, the second like the anal, short and high ; ventrals separate, close 
together, each i, 5; gill-openings moderate; cheeks and opercles scaly; no papillar ridges; anal papilla 
moderate. Species rather numerous in the East Indian region, one of them ranging north to Japan 
and one to Hawaii. 
Asterropteryx Ruppell , Atlas, Reise Nord Afrika, 1828, 138, taf. 34, fig. 4 ( semipunctatas ). 
Priolepis Ehrenberg; fide Bleeker. 
Brachyeleotris Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. 1874, 306 (cyamostigma) . 
395. Asterropteryx semipunctatus Ruppell. “Odpu.” 
Head 3.25 in length; depth 3; eye 3.5 in head; snout 3.7; interorbital 2.5 in eye; D. vi-12; A. 11; 
P. 18; Y. 6; scales 247-9. 
Body elongate, compressed, greatest depth about origin of anal; head elongate, pointed, upper and 
lower profiles convex; depth of head 1.1 in length of head, width 1.6; snout rather short, blunt, 
rounded above; mouth small, oblique, the maxillary reaching front margin of eye; lips fleshy; man- 
