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dible large, slightly projecting; teeth in jaws uneven, sharp pointed; no teeth on vomer and palatines; 
tongue broadly rounded, free in front; anterior nostril in a short tube, posterior large, circular; a 
rather large pore on upper side of snout between nostrils and nearer median ling of head; interorbital 
space narrow; top of snout and interorbital space uneven; eye small, high, posterior margin a little 
anterior to middle of length of head; lower margin of preopercle with 4 blunt prongs; gill-opening 
low, its 'ength 2; scales large, finely ctenoid; head covered with large, finely ctenoid scales except on 
interorbital space, snout, lips, and chin; no lateral line; dorsal fins well separated, the spines flexible, 
and the second produced in a long filament; first spine 1.6, second 1.25, third 1.75 in trunk; soft dorsal 
with last rays longest, first 2.25, ninth 1.25, last 1.8; anal similar to soft dorsal, first 2.5, ninth 1.1, last 
1.9; caudal broad, round, equal to head; pectoral elongate, pointed, longer than head, 3 in trunk; 
ventral long, about equal to pectoral; caudal peduncle elongate, compressed, its length 1.5 in head, 
depth 2. 
Color in alcohol, blackish, almost uniform, apparently without any traces of spots; side with about 
6 vertical obscure blackish bars; fins dusky. Another example has the body similarly colored, except 
that it is covered with very many small bluish spots. 
Apparently not common, except on the reef at Honolulu, where many specimens were collected by 
Doctor Jenkins. We have 1 example from Waianae and 5 from Waikiki, 0.8 to 2.2 inches long, common 
at Samoa. 
Asterropteryx semipunctatus Riippell, Atlas Fisch., 138, pi. 34, fig. 4, 1828, Red Sea; Klunzinger, Fisehe des Rothen Meere. 1 , 
484, in Verh. K. K. Zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, 1871; Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 500 
(Honolulu). 
Elotris cyanostigma Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., VIII, 1855, 452, Cocos Islands. 
Eleotriodes cyanostigma , Bleeker, Enum. Spec. Pise. Arch. Ind., Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerl. VI. -1-859, 112. 
Brachyeleotris cyanostigma , Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., IX, 1874, 306: Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 58, 1877 
(Coral reefs of Oahu) . 
Asterropteryx cyanostigma , Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 536 (Honolulu). 
Genus 232. EVIOTA Jenkins. 
Allied to Aslerropterux. Body not greatly elongate, head not compressed into a keel; dorsal fins 
separate, neither dorsal nor anal elongate; sides of head naked; no papillary ridges; preopercle entire. 
Among the most minute of fishes, inhabiting coral masses. 
Eviota Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 501 ( epiplianes ). 
396. Eviota epiplianes Jenkins. “ Oopu.” Fig. 211. 
Head 2.4 in length; depth 4.5; eye 3.1 in head; snout 4.5; interorbital 2 in eye; D. vi-10, A. 9; 
scales 28, 7. 
Body elongate, compressed, greatest depth about gill-opening, head elongate, profiles about evenly 
rounded in front; opercular region broadest part of head, 1.5 in length, depth 1.4; mouth rather large, 
oblique, maxillary reaching below middle of eye; lips rather thick, fleshy; mandible large, very 
slightly projecting; teeth in jaws small, sharp pointed; no teeth on vomer and palatines, interorbital 
space narrow, level; gill-opening rather large; scales rather large, finely ctenoid; dorsal spines flexible, 
rather high; soft dorsal and anal similar, anterior rays rather high, but not produced; caudal broad, 
rounded; pectoral long, pointed, a little longer than head; ventrals separate, close together, long, equal to 
head; caudal peduncle compressed, its length 1.4 in head, its depth 2. Described from an example 
taken at Waikiki. 
Color when fresh, the specimen (No. 03440) taken in coral rocks, body bluish, more or less cov- 
ered with brown spots, which also extend on dorsal and anal; spots on body cover groups of points, 
forming crescent-shaped spots in alcoholic examples. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown, with a very faint trace of olivaceous; side marked with a number of 
dark-brown vertical crescents; nape before spinous dorsal with 3 deep brown crossbars and a dark- 
brown blotch just behind eye; side of head speckled with brown, side of trunk with about 6 vertical 
very pale green bars below and running to base of anal, short bars in between; spinous dorsal grayish 
with 4 black lines sloping down posteriorly; soft dorsal grayish, with about 7 blackish lines sloping 
posteriorly; other fins grayish. 
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