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the eye diameter. No pores on head. Rows of 
papillae on head less markedly developed 
than in Q. aiireoviridis. Ten gill rakers on the 
outside row of the lower limb of the first arch. 
Pseudobranch composed of 4 lobes. Tongue 
as seen from below rounded but with a slight 
indentation in middle. 
Body completely scaled except apparently 
on the middorsal ridge that runs about one 
eye diameter forward from the first dorsal fin. 
Head scaled forward to an imaginary line 
drawn across between the rear of the orbits. 
Cheek and opercle scaleless. Twenty-six or 27 
scales in a longitudinal series; 7 or 8 transverse 
rows; predorsal scale row incomplete. Scales 
ctenoid, except perhaps for those on breast. 
None of the dorsal spines filamentous. 
Membrane between the two dorsals not quite 
connecting them. Second dorsal with a spine 
and 9 or 10 rays. Anal with a spine and 8 rays. 
Pectoral 19 or 20. 
Color light with a light, dark-bordered 
vertical band crossing the nape and enclosing 
the pectoral base. Behind this are 6 vague dark 
vertical bands, one of these at caudal base, 
the others darkest on the middorsal and mid- 
ventral lines. Each scale on the body com- 
pletely and prominently outlined by a series 
of large melanophores. Dorsal fins, particu- 
larly the first, with dark smudges at the base 
of the rays. Soft dorsal rays speckled. Head 
with traces of 3 broad vertical bands running 
down cheek and operculum. 
This species was taken along with Quis- 
quilius aureoviridts. It resembles that species 
rather than g. engenius in that the orbits are 
not partially enclosed in a deep trench and in 
the absence of scales on the cheek and head. 
However, g. limhatosquamis differs from both 
the other Hawaiian species of the genus in the 
somewhat flatter head, in having a triangular 
naked area on the top of the head between 
and behind the eyes, in having a naked ridge 
extending forward from the first dorsal, in the 
larger scales and fewer dorsal rays. In color 
g. limhatosquamis differs from the other two in 
having each of the scales distinctly outlined 
by a series of melanophores. 
Of other described species g. limhatosquamis 
seems to differ from g. malayanus in color and 
from g. macrophthalmus in the far higher 
pectoral count. 
Limhatosquamis = (L.) edged scale. 
Family GOBIIDAE, Genus Hazeus 
The relationships of the fish described be- 
low are most obscure, at least to the present 
author. It has been placed in the genus 
Hazeus because nothing better could be found. 
As one source of confusion this author has 
never seen the type species of Hazeus, H. 
otakii Jordan and Snyder (1902: 51, fig. 3). As 
another, the genus has frequently been con- 
sidered a synonym of Gnatholepis, e.g., by 
Jordan and Evermann (1905: 487) and by 
Koumans (1931: 86; 1953: 168), but until it 
can be determined what fish G. anjerensis, the 
type species of Gnatholepis, represents there 
can be no final decision on the matter. 
Hazeus untsquamis sp. nov. 
Fig. 3 
holotype: USNM 175009, 18.2 mm. in 
standard length, taken by means of rotenone 
in a cut in the reef about 200 yds. west of 
Diamond Head, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, 
by Gosline and class, May 16, 1950. 
Depth of body contained 4 times in the 
standard length. Depth of caudal peduncle 
contained about 2.5 times in its length. 
Head considerably wider than deep, the 
greatest depth of head contained about 1.4 
times in the head length. Cleft of mouth 
broad and very slightly oblique, the lower 
jaw somewhat projecting. Front of mouth 
about on a level with lower border of pupil; 
maxillary reaching to below middle of eye. 
Upper lip narrow, its greatest width some- 
what less than that of lower lip. Eye directed 
superolaterally, its diameter contained about 
2.2 times in the head length. Smallest distance 
between eye and groove behind upper lip con- 
tained about 4 times in the eye diameter. Both 
