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296. Microphis torrentius .Tonlan \- Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head !*.30 Id base of caudal, 4.10 in distance anterior to anal; snout 2.20 in head; width of snout 2 

 in its length; eye about equal to width of snout; interorbital narrow, 2 in eye; dorsal 32; anal 3; rings 

 16 — 33, no spines; the rings of posterior half square; abdominal rings wider, containing the egg sac; a 



Fig. il.—Mlcruphis turrcnlius Jordan & Scale, new .'ipecies. Type. 



single unbranched stay across opercle; a low medium ridge on snout and 2 in interorbital; slope of 

 forehead not abrupt; length of pectoral equal to opercle; caudal equal to snout; insertion of the minute 

 anal almost a third nearer tip of snout than tip of caudal; anterior base of dorsal directly over anal. 



Color in spirits, greenish with a slightly darker band on each ring; a distinct black line along side 

 of snout through eye, across opercle to base of pectoral; anal with four narrow cros.«-bands of white. 



Three specimens, taken high up in the Vaivase River, near Vailele, to the eastward of Apia, in a 

 swift brook running through pasture land. The type is no. 5172.5, U. S. National Museum, from 

 near Apia, length 3.25 inche.'J. 



GASTEROTOKEUS Heckel. 



297. Gasterotokeus biaculeatus iBlnch). Samoa; Pajiua; Kast Indies. 



Five specimens were taken at Apia and Pago Pago. They were caught in the seine on shallow 

 shores inside the reefs. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, clear olive brown, finely mottled above; six round jet 

 lilack spots like ink-dots on lower part of side of body; lower side of head sulphur-yellow, mottled 

 with brown; faint brown bars at tip of tail, which is red; belly yellowish brown, with brown cross- 

 streaks. 



ICHTHYOCAMPUS Kanp. 



298. Ichthyocampus erythraeus (iilbert. Deep .sea.s of Hawaii. 



299. Ichthyocampus papuensis Sauvage. New Guinea (Sauvage, Pull. Sci. and Philom. 1880, 



HIPPOCAMPUS Kafiuesqne. 



300. Hippocampus fisheri, .Ionian i<: KviTmaiin. Hawaii. 



301. Hippocampus hilonis .lordan A Everiiiann. Hilo. Hawaii. 



302. Hippocampus kuda Bleeker. New (juinea I -Macleay, as //. 'jitlliilalK.i); East Indies. 



Family PEG.AS1D.€. 



PEGASUS" Linnaeus, 1758 [ivlitans). 



Cataphractiis Gronow, 1763 (draco=iolitam). 

 Euri/pegasus Bleeker, 1864 {draco=t-oliians). 

 Zdllses Jordan & Snyder (umilengu, near dramy. 



303. Pegasus volitans Linnseus. New Britain (Peters Berl. Mon. 1S76, 843); East Indies. 



304. Pegasus papilio Gilbert. Peep seas of Hawaii. 



PARAPEGASUS Dumeril. 



305. Parapegasus natans {Linna?us). New Guinea; Australia; China. 



<i The gemis Pegasus was ba.sed, by Linna?us in 1758, on a single species, Pegasus volitans. In 1763 tlie name Calaplmirtus 

 of Gronow was based on tlie same species, which in 1766 Linnseus renamed Pegastis draconis. The same genus was called 

 Eiirypcgasus by Bleeker in l.SGl and Zalises by Jordan & Snyder in 1902. 



