ed creamy-white. Transverse blackish band down close behind 
eyenarrowly followed by similar though much broader one 
close behind. Both these bands mottled with ochraceous, though 
tisually complete below, incomplete in young. Iris yellowish 
Mouth corners mottled with blackish. Gill-opening in middle 
of blackish blotch. Muzzle pale brownish, also inside mouth. 
Length 150 to 288 mm. Four examples without locality. Accord- 
ing to the original drawings one labeled Fiji. We also include 
5 examples from Samoa and Hawaii, 255 to 610 mm. long, in 
the Academy. 
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Uropterygius marmoratus (Lacepede). (we ¥ 
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Head 112 depth 18 1/3 to 21 2/3; snout 6 1/5 to 7% in 
head measured from upper jaw tip; gape 2 2/5 to 2 4/5; inter- 
orbital 7+ to 7%. Body well compressed, combined head and 
trunk 1 1/6 to 11/3 in tail. Head well compressed, width 
3 to 32 in its length. Snott conic, long as wide. Eye small, 
12 in snout, hind pupil edge midway in gape. Mouth completely 
closes, lower jaw very slightly protruding. Each jaw with 
single row of small firm subequal outer teeth; inside 
row of longer depressible teeth and also a third row of still 
longer depressible ones; front of upper jaw with a few large 
depressible teeth; vomer with Y shaped patch of smell teeth; 
in young but © rows of teeth in jaws and 1 row on vomer. 
Front nostril in short tube near snout tip, but level with 
middle of eye; hind nostril in short tube directly above 
front pupil edge within interorbital. Interorbital convexly 
