LLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



One specimen, the type, no. 51724, U. S. National Museum, 4.20 inches long, from the coral reefs 

 off Mulinu'u, the residence of Mataafa, chief of Upolu, a distinguished and able statesman, once kin^ 

 of Samoa. 



290. Corythroichthys trachypoma (Giinther). Thur.'iday I. ; I'rinci' of Wales I. 



>'«/i.w.,/;,i,s Irarhiipuma (iiilitliiT, Z0..I. Ali-rt, 1SS4, 3(1. 



TEACHYRHAMPHUS Kaup. 



291. Trachyrliam.ph.ussp. Marquesas Is. 



A specimen badly mutilated and therefore not in fit condition for descript: 



Mr. Scale at Nukahiva in the Marquesas Islands. It represents probably 



MICKOFHIS Kaup. 

 292. Microphis brachyurus (Bleeker). TuoUio. Tahiti; 



,\bout a dozen examples were taken in the A'aisigam: 

 All the species of this genus in Samoa are confined strict 



was taken by 

 undescribed species. 



Aneiteum; East Indies. 

 River and in other streams about Apia. 

 ,• to fresh A\aters. 



Life colors of one specimen from Apia, light olive, darker on back; a bright red stripe aloug 

 side from below pectoral backward to middle of trunk; head darker olive, barred with paler olive; 

 caudal dusky olive. Another specimen was dark, speckled with whitish, a vertical orange dash 

 behind opercle the only bright color, and seen in males only. 



293. Microphis pleurotsenia (Giinther). Hawaii. 



294. Microphis sculptus (Oiintherl. Fiii. 



295. Microphis caudatus Peters. 



Six specimens of this species were taken in the Gasegase River at Vaimnsa, near Apia. 



