New Hawaiian Fishes — GOSLINE 
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Fig. 1. Quisquilius aureoviridis, holotype. 
Color in life yellowish green to yellowish 
brown with faint slightly darker vertical bars. 
In alcohol a broad, lighter longitudinal bar 
becomes apparent along the middle of the 
body posteriorly. Fins light or dusky. Small 
specimens show traces of dark vertical bars 
on the head. 
Quisquilius aureoviridis differs from Q. eugen- 
ius most notably in interorbital structure. In 
the latter species the eyes are raised, leaving 
a deep, narrow trench between them, the bot- 
tom of which is hardly visible; in Q. aureo- 
viridis the eyes are little raised above the level 
of the relatively broad interorbital. In Q. 
eugenius the scales on the cheek and opercle 
are prominent in adults; in Q. aureoviridis they 
are absent. Finally, the two species may at 
once be separated in life by coloration, for 
Q. eugenius is a brownish black with vertical 
stripes. 
Koumans (1953: 131) has synonymized 
four other species with Q. eugenius. Of these, 
three at least— Q. cinctus, Q. naraharae, and 
Q. profundus-— do not seem to belong there. 
They appear, on the contrary, to be somewhat 
nearer Q. aureoviridis at least in the lack of 
squamation on the cheek and (usually) on the 
operculum. All of them differ from Q. aureo- 
viridis, however, in having the body dark with 
light bands and in the punctate soft dorsal 
and anal fins. 
Quisquilius malayanus and Q. macrophthal- 
mus appear to be relatively large scaled forms, 
as is the species described below. 
Aureoviridis = (L.) yellow green. 
Quisquilius limhatosquamis sp. nov. 
Fig. 2, Table 1 
holotype: USNM 175012, 20.0 mm. in 
standard length, taken in a rotenone station 
about 2 mi. west of Haleiwa, Oahu, Territory 
of Hawaii by Gosline, et aL, July 23, 1955. 
PARATYPES: University of Hawaii No. 1704, 
8 specimens, 15.6-18.5 mm., off Waikiki reef, 
Oahu, T. H., Gosline, et al., Dec. 31, 1952. 
Depth of body contained 4.5 times in the 
standard length. 
Greatest width of head considerably greater 
than greatest depth of head, the latter con- 
tained about 1.9 times in the head length. 
Mouth oblique, the lower jaw protruding. 
Front of mouth about on level with center of 
pupil. Rear of jaw below front of pupil. Eye 
not surrounded by a recessed groove above or 
posteriorly, its diameter contained about 3.7 
times in the head length. Smallest distance 
between eye and groove behind upper lip 
contained about 2.5 times in the eye diameter. 
Anterior nostril about V 3 as far from the 
groove behind upper lip as from the posterior 
nostril. Posterior nostril slightly above top of 
pupil. Interorbital narrow, not in a deep re- 
cess, its width contained perhaps 5 times in 
