His text gives the anal »with 9 or 10 soft rays though 
his figure shows but 8 and the lateral line is also in- 
terrupted below the soft dorsal. -« His next figure agrees with 
the entire hind edge and ridge of preopercle, but he shows the 
lateral line distinctly interrupted below the soft dorsal, 
This represents a fish with 9 soft anal rays, The Samoan and 
Philippine examples in the Academy all have the interopercle 
entire, except the blunt spine at the angle behind, Kendall 
and Goldsborough record A-urotaenia from Kusaie, Ponapi and 
sae 
Comparison with 16 Samoan paretypes of A. lafa Jordan 
and Seale, in the Academy, 35 to 87 mm. long, show 3 with but 
ll branched anal rays, the others with 10 and they include 
the smaller examples. As Jordan and Seale give 11 it would 
appear that 10 is more likely. It shows rakers 11 23; scales 
about 30, with 12 or 135 basal striae. In the young the dorsal 
spines are much longer, and depress backward at least 3/4 of 
spine of soft dorsal. Alcoholic examples further differ in 
the dark median lateral streak or line extending level with 
middie of eye to caudal base, in A. vaivasensis it is silvery 
or leaden, 
Lk 
Mem, Mus, Comp, Zool., vol.26,no.7,1911, p. 279, 
