THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 191 



Fiimilv HALOSAURID.tE. 

 ALDROVANDIA Goode & Bean. { Halosauropsis CoWett.) 



110. Aldrovandia kauaiensis (iilliert. Dci'i) waters of Hawaii, Kauai I. 



111. Aldrovandia proboscidea (iill>ert. Deep .seas <]f Hawaii. 



112. Aldrovandia verticalis ( iilbert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



Family PLOT()SII).€. 

 PLOTOSUS Lac^pede. 



113. Plotosus anguillaris Bloch. Jpoa. Samoa; Waigiu; New Guinea; Solomon Islands (Seale); 



Asia; East Indies. 

 I'hilusus ikapi/r Lesson. Vuy. Cociuille. Zool. ll. 132, pi. 31, fig. 3, 1830, Waigiu. 



This little catfish is occasionally taken in shallow water inside the reef at Apia. The yellow 

 stripes on the sides are very faint or wanting in our specimens, which otherwise do not seem to differ 

 at all from specimens from Nagasaki. "We therefore place the species of the South Seas {Plotoma 

 Ikcipor, described first from Waigiu) in the synonymy of Plolosus anguUlaris. 



Color dark olive, mottled, white below; sides with scarcely a trace of pale stripes; fins dusky, 

 esiieeially on the edges. Young individuals- more distinrtly marked, with two white stripes. 



CNIDOGLANIS Gunther. 



114. Cnidog-lanis macrocephalus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). New Guinea (Marleay); Timor. 



TACHYSTJRUS Lacepede. 



115. Tach.ysurus graeffi (Kner & Steindachner). 



Alius yra-Jfi Kner & Steindachner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1807, 28, Samoa. 

 This species is described from Samoa. Perhaps the specimen is not Samoan, but came from the 

 East Indian region, where catfishes of this type are abundant. 



116. Tachysurus armig^er (De Vis). New Britain. 



Arias armigrr lie Vis, Prix-. Linn. Six-. N. S. W. issl, 151, New Britain. 



GALEICHTHYS Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



117. Galeichthys frogrgatti (Ramsay & Ogilby). New(iuin(-a. 



Ariiisfrowi'illi Rainsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ISXil, r\ Strickland River (New Guinea). 



118. Galeichthys latirostris (Macleay). New Guinea. 



Alius l.ilinisliis Ma.-l.-MV. IT...-. Linn. Sac. N. S. W. 1884, 276. 



NETUMA Bleaker. 



119. Netuma spatula ( Ram.say & Ogilby). New Guinea. 



Ariuis spatula Kanisay Aligilby. op. cit., 16. Strickland River i New Guinea). 



120. Netuma thalassina (Riippell). New <ininea i :\Iai-leav ); East Indies. 



HEMIPIMELODUS Bleeker. 



121. Hemipimelodus dayi Ramsay & Ogilliy. Strickland River, New (Guinea. 



122. Hemipimelodus crassilabris Ramsay ^- O^ill.y. .-Strickland River, New Guinea. 



LAMBERTIA Perugia. 



123. Lambertia atra Perugia. New Guinea. 



I.amhertia atra Perugia, .\nn. Mus. Genova 1S94, .Wo, East New Guinea. 



