FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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head, lips, and front of snout with white lines and spots; tips of anal rays white, fin with a submar- 
ginal grayish band; several whitish streaks about base of pectoral. 
From Kailua we have examined 33 examples from 0.8 to 5.5 inches in length, averaging 3.2 inches 
in length; from Ililo 6 examples from 2.6 to 5.1 inches in length, averaging 3.4 inches; 2 examples 
from Waianae, 2.75 and 4.25 inches, respectively; and 5 examples from Honolulu, 1.5 to 2.4 inches, 
average 1.9 inches. 
The specimens figured in Gunther’s Siidsee as Solaria s ii. arm or at us. are not this species, but 
A. striatus. Alticus marmoratus is thus far known only from the Hawaiian Islands. 
Blennius marmoratus Bennett, Zool., Jour., IV, No. XIII, Art. Ill, 1828, 25, Oahu. 
Solaria* marmoratus , Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 305, 1836 (Ceylon); Gunther, Cat., Ill, 248, 1861 
(Sandwich Islands); Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, yi, 204, 1877, in part (Sandwich Islands); Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish 
Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 507 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 536 (Laysan Island). 
417. Alticus g-ibbifrons (Quoy & Gaimard). Figs. 221 and 221a. 
Head 4.5 in length; depth 4.65; eye 4 in head; snout 3.65; width of mouth 2; interorbital about 
2 in eye; D, xii, 19, A. r, 20. 
Body elongate, compressed, greatest depth about middle of belly; depth of head 1.25 in its length; 
width of head 1.25; head elongate, upper profile horizontal; interorbital space projecting forward 
mm. 
Fig. 221. — Alticus gibbifrons (Quoy & Gaimard). Type of Salanas rut Hus Jenkins. 
beyond tip of snout; eye high, very far forward in head, the anterior margin before front margin of 
snout; snout inferior, oblique, convex space between lower margin of eye and corner of mouth a little 
less than eye diameter; interorbital space narrow, slightly concave; mouth low, inferior, broad; teeth 
small, in a comb-like band in each jaw; lower jaw with strong canines; lips thin, entire, without 
fringe; nostrils well separated, anterior with a short flap ending in 4 thin fleshy filaments; a thin 
filament above the eye 1.35 in its diameter; dorsal spines distinct from soft portion of fin, somewhat 
flexible, third 2 in head; soft dorsal a little higher than spines, fourth ray 1.5 in head; last ray joined 
to upper edge of caudal peduncle- by membrane; anal rather low, membranes incised along edge of fin, 
fifth 1.4; caudal elongate, rounded, about 1.1 in head; tenth and eleventh pectoral rays longest, a trifle 
over length of head; ventral 1.5; caudal peduncle compressed, its depth 2 in head; lateral line incom- 
plete, running for about first three-fourths lengths of spinous dorsal, straight, only slightly bent down 
at end. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown, side with about 9 pairs of brown crossbars with brown reticulat- 
ing connecting lines on the back and anterior part of body, very well defined about, pectoral fin; 
body almost everywhere marked with very numerous brown dots; lower surface of head with numer- 
ous round brown spots; a black blotch on the upper membrane of dorsal between first and second 
spines, and another, less distinct, between second and third ; rest of upper portion of spinous dorsal 
with 2 series of blackish brown spots, basal portion of fin brownish; soft dorsal with 3 or 4 irregular 
series of blackish brown spots; margin of anal whitish, the outer portion with a series of small 
