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blackish and greenish; spinous dorsal smoky with a brownish blotch on base of last 2 spines; soft 
dorsal smoky; anal pale smoky, with a darker band near the outer edge, other fins pale dusky. 
Color in alcohol, brownish black, paler below, side with about 7 more or less distinct daiker ver- 
tical bars, most distinct in the young, top of head with obscure darker cross bands, fins all bluish 
black in adult males, paler in females and young; dorsals, anal, and caudal with small roundish pale 
spots, most numerous near base; pectoral dusky, without spots. 
This goby was found in abundance in a small stream at Kaiwiki near Hilo, and a few specimens 
were obtained in Heneohe Creek at Heeia, Oahu Island. We have specimens also from Kailua, and 
Fig. 216 . — Sicydium stimpsoni Gill. 
the Albatross found it in Lahaina and Wailuku rivers, Maui Island. It is strictly a fresh-water fish, 
attains a length of 5 to 7 inches, and is used to some extent as food. 
The species was originally described by Doctor Gill, and later by Gunther, from specimens 
obtained at Hilo. 
Sicydium stimpsoni Gill, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 101, Hilo, Hawaii, in fresh water; Gunther, Cat., Ill, 93, 1861; 
Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, VI, 183, 1877 (Gill’s description). 
Sicydium nigresce.ns Gunther, Chall. Rept., Zool., I, Part VI, Shore Fishes, 60, pi. XXVI, fig. C, 1880, Honolulu, fresh water; 
streams in the island of Hawaii. 
Sicyopterus stimpsonsi , Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7,59, 1877 (fresh-water streams of Oahu); Jenkins, Bull. U. S. 
Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 502 (Honolulu, fresh water); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19,. 1904), 536 (Lahaina 
and Wailuku rivers, Maui). 
406. Sicydium albotaeniatum Gunther. Fig. 217. 
Head 4 in length; depth 4.5; eye 6 in head; D. vi-15; A. 18; scales about 65. 
Bodv long; head short; snout prominent, projecting beyond the short lower jaw. Scales large, 
not reduced but crowded anteriorly; head entirely naked; fins well developed; third and fourth dorsal 
spines produced, long and flexible, one-third longer than head; base of spinous dorsal 1.3 in head; 
distance between dorsals 3 in spinous dorsal; soft dorsal and anal long and high, but not produced; 
caudal long, sharply convex; pectoral broad, bluntly pointed. Color dark yellowish gray, lighter 
and more yellowish below; a white lateral band, slightly narrower than eye, extending from base of 
caudal to tip of snout, on head its upper edge at upper base of pectoral, the line running straight to 
tip of snout; a row of 8 large black spots on body, below the lateral band, from pectoral to base of 
caudal; fins all dusky, the dorsal, caudal, and anal edged with light blue, the lower third of anal 
with many small blue spots; anterior part of ventral disk red. 
