378 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



HELICOLENUS Goode & Bean. 



1355. Helicolenus rufescens (jilliert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



PLECTROGENITJM Gilbert. 



1356. Plectrogenium nanum Gilbert. Deep was of Hawaii. 



CENTKOPOGON Gunther. 



1357. Centropog-on australis ( \V)iitc 1. I''.rroiii;uii;'i; I'uhicky; Australia. 



AMBLYAPISTUS Bleaker. 



1358. Amblyapistus tsenianotus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Melanesia (Seale); East Intlies. 



1359. Amblyapistus vestitus (De Vis). South Seas. 



Tctmrwjc rixlitiis He Vis. I'mc. Lilili. Snc. New South Wales 1884, 496, Soutti Seas. (Ilnrsal xvi. V. ) 

 TJENIANOTUS Lacepede. 



1360. Tsenianotus triacanthus (Lacepede). Tahiti; Raiatea (Gunther) ; East Indies. 



1361. Tsenianotus garretti Gunther. Hawaii. 



1362. Tsenianotus citrinellus Gilliert. Hawaii. 



HINDUS Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



1363. Minous pictus Gunther. New Guinea. 

 {Mint, iif pictiif lianther. ChallengL-r I'ishes, 1880, i\. ) 



DENDROCHIRUS Swainson. 



1364. Dendrochirus zebra (Cuvier & Valenciennes), (iiuiiii; Pahin Island; Fiii; New Guinea; East 



Indies. 

 Plerois zebra Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. I'oiss., iv, 367, He de France. Gunther, FLsche der Siidsee, 82, 

 Indian Ocean, Pelew I. Scale, Bishop Museum 1901, 122, Guam. Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. .\.x.xix. 

 L32, Fiji. Gunther, Cat., ii, 126, Amboina. 



1365. Dendroohirus brachypterus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Samoa (Gunther); East Indies. 



1366. Dendrochirus sausaulele .lordan & Seale, new' species. Sauaaulde. Samoa. (PI. lii, fig. 1.) 

 Heail 2.4.") in length; depth 2.80; eye 3..5.5 in head, equal to snout; interorbital 2 in eye; dorsal 



XIII, 10; anal iii, tS; pectoral 17; scales 8-44-1.3; maxillary 2.50 in head, reaching to below anterior third 

 of eye. 



Body elongate, compressed, profiles of trunk exenly curved; snout short, rounded; bands of 

 minute teeth in jaws and vomer; a simple orbital tentacle one-half length of eye; a simple fleshy flap 

 prolonged into a tentacle over anterior nostril; five simple tentacles on the anterior margin of snout; 

 a wide flap from lower anterior margin of preorbital, and two similar flaps from lower limb of 

 preopercle; a single small nasal spine on each side of snout; four orbital and seven nuchal spines on 

 each side; bony stay of cheek without distinct spines; a small sharp spine oa preopercle at posterior 

 termination of the bony stay and two small spines below tins on the angle; gillrakers short, 10 on 

 lower limb; depth of caudal peduncle scarcely equal to eye; pectoral fin 2.10 in length, reaching to 

 below posterior axil of dorsal, the membranes of. lower rays only being slightly incised; ventral 

 reaching to origin of anal; caudal and anal of about equal length, 2.50 in head. 



Color in spirits, dull whitish with seven broad brown bands around the body, first over nuchal 

 region, where the band is broken and the mid segment is in advance, second from origin of dorsal 

 through axil of pectoral, third from 4th-5th dorsal spines, fourth from 8th-9th dorsal spines, fifth 

 from lst-3d dorsal rays, sixth from 7th-9th dorsal rays, the seventh band circling the caudal peduncle 

 and sending a brown line back to base of caudal; a narrow indistinct line between the 2d and 3d bands 

 and another between the 4th and 5th bands; a black line from base of orbital tentacle through eye to 

 posterier end of bony stay; a dark blotch on cheek lielow anterior part of bony stay, another on 



