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Young examples have a dusky spot at base of caudal. 
This small fish is common about Honolulu and Waikiki, where Doctor Jenkins obtained 50 speci- 
mens, and we have 55, 0.4 to 0.75 of an inch in length. 
Eviota epiphanas Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 501, fig. 42, Honolulu (type, No. 50720, U. S. 
Nat. Mus.; coll. O. P. Jenkins). 
Genus 233. GOBIOPTERUS Bleeker. 
Fig. 211 . — Eviota epiphanes Jenkins; from the type. 
Teeth on the jaws large, acute, distant, and equal on the intermaxillary, unequal in the infra- 
maxillary; 2 canine teeth, especially developed, behind the symphysis; head scaleless, compressed, 
the gape sub vertical; scales 25 to 36 in longitudinal series; B. 4; D. v or vi, 8 or 9; A. 8 to 14. Allied 
to Apocryptes, but with large scales. 
Gobiopterus Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Ac. Soc. Holl., IX, 1874 , 311 ( Apocryptes brachypterus). 
397. Gobiopterus farcimen Jordan & Evermann. “Oopu.” Plate 59. 
Head 3.25 in length; depth 3.5; eye 3.2 in head; snout 3.5; D. vi-11; A. 9; scales 28 (27 to 29)-10. 
Body rather robust, compressed, greatest depth at gill-opening; head rather large, depth 1.25 in 
length, width 1.4; upper profile of head evenly convex from tip of snout to origin of dorsal; jaws 
large, mandible very large, slightly produced; mouth large, very oblique, maxillary extending beyond 
front margin of eye; teeth in jaws uniserial, rather large, somewhat canine-like; two small depressible 
canines on posterior part of bone behind anterior series; lips large, thick, fleshy; tongue not emargi- 
nate, large, thick, rounded; nostrils close together, posterior very large, in front of upper margin of 
orbit with elevated rim; interorbital space very narrow, concave; scales large, ctenoid; a large pore 
behind and above base of pectoral; gill-opening large, continued forward below; spinous dorsal small, 
flexible, spines ending in filaments, beginning behind base of pectoral; soft dorsal high, rays of nearly 
uniform length; anal with posterior rays elongate, much longer than anterior; caudal elongate, 
rounded; pectoral broad, round, equal to head; ventrals long, equal to head, broad, without any 
frenum in front; caudal peduncle compressed, its length 1.5 in head, depth 2.25. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown, trunk covered all over with very pale minute brown dots; fins very 
pale brown, dorsals dusky, especially the .spinous; 3 vertical pairs of pale brown cross-lines overside 
of head. 
Described from an example 1.1 inches long, taken at Hilo. Type, No. 50654, U. S. N. M. 
Known only from Hilo. 
Gobiopterus farcimen Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (April 11, 1903), 205, Hilo. 
