FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
501 
posterior margin of maxillary nearly reaching below middle of pupil; nostrils very small, well 
separated, in front of eye; gill-opening a short vertical slit; dorsal spines flexible, hardly distinguish- 
able from rays, and of about equal height; posterior dorsal and anal rays broadly joined to caudal by 
membrane; caudal rounded, 1.5 in head; pectoral rounded, 1.3; ventral long, of 2 rays, and reach- 
ing two-thirds the length of space to origin of anal; no lateral line; head and body naked. Color in 
life (No. 03551), uniformly black; in alcohol, very dark brown, almost blackish, with very faint or 
indistinct markings on side; caudal and pectoral grayish. 
A diminutive inhabitant of the coral reefs of the Hawaiian Islands; found also in Samoa. We 
have 20 specimens from Honolulu (18 of them collected by Jenkins) and 7 collected by us on the 
reef at Waikiki. The Albatross also found it at Honolulu. 
Petroscirtes aier Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, 199, 1877, Tahiti. 
Aspidontus brunneolus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 510, fig. 50, No. 50718 U. S. Nat. it us.: 
coll. O. P. Jenkins, Honolulu; Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 536 (Honolulu). 
Genus '249. SALARIAS Cuvier. 
Teeth uniform, in 1 row only, strong, close-set, compressed laterally, hooked on the end, 
extremely long and thin and in great number; no canines. In the young individuals the teeth are 
arranged like a harpsichord; head compressed on top; upper lip fleshy and swollen; forehead entirely 
vertical; intestines spiral, more slender and longer than in other Blennies. 
Salarius Cuvier, Regne Animal, Ed. 2, II, 238, 1829 ( quadripinnis ). 
Scartes Jordan & Evermann, Cheek-List Fishes, 471,1896 ( rubropunctatus );• name preoccupied. 
Scartichthys Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., Ill, 2395, 1898 (rubripunctatus) . 
a. Dorsal fin connected with caudal: D. xm, 22.. ...zebra, p. 501 
aa. Dorsal not connected with caudal. 
6. Dorsal xn, 21: anal 23; body elongate edentulus, p. 503 
419. Salarias zebra Vaillant & Sauvage. Figs. 223 and 223a. 
Head 4.4 in length; depth 4.8; eye 4.5 in head; snout 2.75; width of mouth 2; interorbital 3 in 
eye; D. xm, 22; A. 25; P. 14; V. 2. 
Body elongate, compressed, its greatest depth at middle of belly; depth of head 1.2 in its length; 
width of head 1.25; cheeks swollen; anterior profile very steep, vertical, convex; mouth very broad, 
low, slightly inferior; maxillary reaching a little beyond middle of eye; teeth very fine, villiform, 
movable, and forming an edge; lips rather fleshy, covering the teeth; eye high and anterior in head, 
with a fleshy appendage above equal to the snout; top of head with a high fleshy median flajj, its base 
equal to width of mouth: nostrils small, close together, anterior with short flap; interorbital space 
very narrow, concave; spinous dorsal beginning just before posterior margin of gill-opening, and just 
behind flap on top of head; dorsd spines flexible, base of fin 3.25 in trunk; fifteenth dorsal ray 1.2 in 
head, and third spine 1.5; eighth anal ray 1.75; caudal long, rounded, 3.9; pectoral with lower rays 
longest, fin pointed, equal to head; ventral short, of 2 broad rays, 1.8 in head; lateral line strongly 
