502 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
arched at first, then running straight along middle of side of tail, pores rather few. Described from 
an example (No. 863) 5.1 inches long, taken at Honolulu. 
A large example from the coral rocks at Waianae was blackish-brown when fresh, with more or 
less distinct dark crossbars alternating with golden bars or split patches. These are most distinct in 
the young and fade in spirits. In some about 8 golden spots along base of dorsal, obscure and 
fading in spirits. A small example shows a bunch of small blue spots on snout, which were not 
noticed on any others. The fins, which are nearly black in spirits, the dorsal, anal, and caudal were 
rich blue-black in life; no white edging to any fin, the outer half of the anal distinctly blacker; no 
black or white speckling on body; pectoral and ventrals blackish. 
An example 2 inches long, also from the coral reefs of W aianae, was blackish or dark reddish- 
brown in life, the belly livid bluish; side with 12 narrow pairs of dark stripes, with a pale olive spot 
between each pair; dorsal and anal more or less clearly dark edged, especially the latter. This example 
had much greater powers of leaping than the others. 
Other examples from the same locality had the anal very conspicuously white-edged in life, also 
with more spotting and color. Some had fine dark dots, and oblique dark streaks on soft dorsal. The 
dark-paired crossbars on side and golden spots at base of soft dorsal are much the same. Ventrals 
paler than in the other examples. 
Color when fresh, of still another example, dark olive with short pale olive bars, rather faint, the 
dark bars in pairs; dorsal dark olive, with about 8 dark crossbars; anal blue-black, pale flesh-color 
Fig. 223a . — Salarias zebra Vaillant & Sauvage. Type of Salarias cypho Jenkins. 
at base, the tips white; caudal dark olive, blue-black below, no spots at base; pectoral somewhat dusky; 
ventrals rather pale. 
Color in alcohol, deep brown, slightly tinged with dusky purple; upper surface darker, and side 
with about 18 broad, darker brown vertical crossbars arranged in pairs; belly pale or soiled brown; 
vertical fins and pectoral b'ackish; basal portion of anal gray; soft dorsal with oblique blackish lines; 
upper margin of anal rather broadly whitish; ventral gray. 
Females differ a little from the males in coloration, being paler in alcohol, and with the belly and 
lower surface more or less bluish; margin of anal narrowly whitish; the ocular filament short and 
slender; crest on top of head rather low and shorter than in the male. Many of the females taken in 
June and July are gravid with ova, and the males show large testes. 
One of the most abundant blennies occurring among the Hawaiian Islands; represented in our 
collections by a series cf 171 examples from Waianae, averaging 2.9 inches in length, the largest being 
5.3 inches and the smalle 1 1 inch, and 81 from Kailua, averaging 2.8 inches, the largest 5.6 and the 
smallest 0.9 inches in length. We have examined 65 examples from Hilo, the average length being 2.8 
inches, the largest 4.75, and the smallest 1.1 inches; 1 from Moanalua 1.5 inches long, and 55 from 
Honolulu, 1.2 to 4.4 inches in length, averaging 2.7, collected by Doctor Jenkins. 
Salarias zebra Vaillant & Sauvage, Rev. Mag. Zool. (3) (III), 1875, 281, Sandwich Islands; Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 
XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 536 (Honolulu; Hilo: Pauko Bay, Hawaii; Hanalei Bay, Kauai; station 3829, Lanai; Lay- 
san Island; station 3881, between Maui and Lanai). 
Salarias cypho Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 506, fig. 47, Honolulu (type. No. 50697, U.S.N.M., 
coll. O. P. Jenkins). 
