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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Color in life, pale flesh-color, upper parts with dark brownish spots and blotches; a series of about 
8 brownish blotches along middle of side; a small dark spot on base of pectoral; opercle dusky; fins 
all pale, spinous dorsal with brown edge; iris bluish white. 
An example from Hilo, when fresh, was olive-green, rather pale, and with 7 blackish crossbands; 
caudal spot small and inconspicuous; black bar below eye, narrow and very distinct; back crossbarred 
with many spots of dusky olive; side with longitudinal streaks of dark brown spots along rows of 
scales, these irregular and variable, mixed, especially behind, with spots of pale sky-blue; dorsal, 
anal, and caudal dotted finely with dark olive; pectoral pale olive; ventrals blackish; anal plain black- 
ish, paler at base. In most examples examined the head was finely dotted with bright pale blue on 
cheehs and opercles. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown, side with numerous small dark brown spots and 7 large dark brown 
blotches; a dark brown streak below eye, and another across opercle; spinous dorsal very pale brown 
with about 3 blackish brown cross-lines, very distinct on first spines, running somewhat obliquely, 
and becoming indistinct posteriorly; soft dorsal with the spines pale or whitish brown and membranes 
between blackish brown; anal more or less dark gray brown; caudal very pale brown or whitish, 
spotted in cross-series with brown; pectoral pale brown; ventrals dark brown, paler along edges. 
This small but interesting species is generally common in brackish water about Hilo and Honolulu. 
The collection contains a total of 123 specimens; 101 specimens from Hilo range in length from 1.1 to 
2.5 inches, the average length being 1.81 inches. We have 5 specimens from Waianae 1.3 to 1.8 inches 
in length, the average being 1.62 inches, and 2 examples from the pond at the Moana Hotel at Waikiki, 
each 0.8 of an inch long. The average length of our 123 specimens is 1.81 inches. 
Acentrogobius ophthalmotmnia , Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, GO, 1877 (coral reefs at Oahu); not of Bleeker. 
Gnathoiepis lcnighti Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Apr. 11, 1903), 204, Honolulu. 
Genus 240. KELLOGGELLA Jordan & Seale, new genus. 
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Kelloggella Jordan & Seale, new genus of Gnbiidse ( Kelloggella cardinalis Jordan & Seale MS., from Samoa). 
This genus is framed for little fishes allied to Gobiosoma, but with 6 dorsal spines, and the body 
and head more elongate. Body naked; fins moderate; teeth small and sharp. We place our single 
Hawaiian species in this genus, though it differs in the presence of a few rudimentary scales posteriorly. 
404. Kelloggella oligolepis (Jenkins). Fig. 215. 
Head 4.5 in length; depth 5.75; eye 3.5 in head; mouth 2.75; snout 2 in eye, 4.5 in head; D. vi-11 
or 12; A. 7 or 8; P. 15; V. i, 5. 
Body elongate, compressed; head elongate, blunt, depth 1.25 in its length, width 1.35; profile of 
snout very bluntly rounded; profile of back from head to root of spinous dorsal a little concave, 
Fig. 215. — Kelloggella oligolepis (Jenkins); from the type. 
descending from head to base of pectoral, rather gently curving from front of dorsal at base of ventral 
to base of caudal; snout compressed, short, jaws rather large, equal; mouth low, slightly oblique; 
teeth in lower jaw rather large, uniserial posteriorly along sides, and in wide band in front; inner 
