252 BULLETIN 180, UNITED STATEiS NATIONAL MUSEUM 



hasseltii Bleeker, Nat. Tijdsclir. Ned. Ind., vol. 1, p. 253, 1861).] Not Valen- 

 ciennea Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, vol. 2, p. 284, 1868 (Valenciennea 

 strigata Bleeker). Not Valenciennesia Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, 

 vol. 2, p. 288, 1868 {Valemiennesia striyata Bleeker = Kkoirindes strigntus 

 Bleeker). 

 Valenciennesia Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, vol. 2, p. 300, 1868. (Type 

 Valenciennesia hasseJti Bleeker = Eleotriodes hasseltii Bleeker.) 



VALENCIENNEA VIOLIFERA Jordan and Scale 



Valenciennea violifera Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), 

 p. 383, pi. 52, fig. 2, 1906. 



116166. Tutuila Island, leef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 51771 (type and 8 cotypes of Valenciennea violifera* Jordan and Seale), Apia, 

 Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg. 



Genus HETERELEOTRIS Bleeker 



Hetereleotris Blkeker, Arcli. Neerl. Sci. Nat., vol. 9, p. 306, 1874. (Type, Gobius 

 diadematus Riiijpell.) 



HETERELEOTRIS CLARA Jordan and Seale 



Hetereleotris clara Jordan and Seaij:, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905). p. 

 392, pi. 36, fig. 2, 1906. 



116165, Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Point, June 27, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 51773 (type of Hetereleotris clara Jordan and Seale), Pago Pago, Samoa, Jor- 

 dan and Kellogg. 



This species no doubt should be made the type of a new genus. 



HETERELEOTRIS PHAENNA Jordan and Seale 



Hetereleotris phaenna Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), 

 p. 393, pi. 36, fig. 3, 1906. 



51786 (type of H. phaenna, Jordan and Seale), Pago Pago, Samoa, Jordan, and 

 Kellogg. 



FAGASA, new genus 



This new genus of goboid fish is characterized by and distinguished 

 from all other genera of gobies by the combination of the following 

 characters : Pelvics I, 5, separated to the base and without basal mem- 

 brane ; gill membranes continued moderately far forward and joined 

 to the isthmus without a free fold across it; body elongate, tubular 

 anteriorly but compressed posteriorly ; the depth 9^2 times in standard 

 length; anteriorly naked, the scales beginning under origin of second 

 dorsal; mouth nearly vertical, the lower jaw a little longer but not 

 quite entering dorsal profile; interorbital narrow; teeth villiform in 

 narrow bands on both jaws, an outer enlarged series anteriorly. 



Genotype. — Fagasa futuiJae, new species. 



Named Fagasa after the Polynesian village and bay where it was 

 caught. 



