THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 415 



Family HARPAG1FER1D.€. 

 DRACONETTA Jordan & Fowler. 



1555. Draconetta hawaiiensis Gilbert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



Family RHV.\CICHTHYm.€. 



RHYACICHTHYS Boulenger. 



Platyptera Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 321, 183.5 (a.<ipro); name preoccupied. 

 Rhyaeichthys Bonlenger, Ann. .Mag. Nat. Hist. 1903 (asjiro). 



1556. Rhyacichthys aspro (Kuhl & Van Hasselt). Swift rivers in the .Si)l(jnion Is. (Giinther, 



Fische der Sudsee, 191 ) ; Ea-^t Indies. 



Family CALLIOXYMID^. 

 CALLITIRICHTHYS Jordan & Snyder. 



1557. Calliurichthys simplicornis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Guam. 



1558. CalUurichthys decoratus Gilbert. Hawaii. 



1559. CalUurichthys japonicus (Houttuyn). New Guinea (Giinther); Japan. 



CALLIONYMUS Linnaeus. 



1560. Callionymus cooki Giinther. Rarotonga. 



CaUionymus cooki Giinther, Proc. Zool. Sop. 1871, 605, Rarotonga. Gunther, Fisehe der Siidsep, 192. taf. 113, fig. b, 

 Rarotonga, 



1561. Callionynius calauropomus Richardson. New Ireland (Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 841); 



Australia. 



1562. Callionymus cseruleonotatus Gilbert. Hawaii. 



1563. Callionymus rubrovinctus Gilbert. Hawaii. 



1564. Callionymus coraUinus Gilbert. Hawaii. 



SYNCHIROPTTS Gill. 



1565. Synchiropus microps (Giinther). Tonga. 



1566. Synchiropus lineolatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Bougainville I. (Petere, Berl. IMcm. 



1S76, 841); East Indies. 



1567. Synchiropus lili Jordan & Seale. Lili. Samoa. (PI. uii, fig. 2.) 



Head 3 in length; depth 5; eye 3.5 in head; dorsal iv-8; anal 7; lateral line complete, running 

 near base of dorsal fins; interorbital equal to pupil; snout 4 in head. 



Body elongate, widest at base of pectoral, compressed posteriorly; the anterior profile rounded to 

 the mouth; lower jaw slightly the longer; angle of mouth under anterior margin of eye; mouth small, 

 protractile, with minute teeth in jaws; caudal peduncle 3.75 in head; preopercular spine very strong 

 with 2 strong curved claws, one of which is directed inward; origin of dorsal fin directly above 

 posterior margin of opercle, its longest spine 2 in head; base of soft dorsal 1.1 in head; pectoral 1.3 in 

 head, its tip under third ray of dorsal; base of the large ventrals entirely anterior to base of pectorals, 

 the anterior margin of the base l)eing anterior to preopercular spine; base of anal 1.1 in head, its 

 origin an equal distance from tip of snout and base of caudal fin; caudal rounded, 1.1 in head. 



Color in spirits dark brown with tint of green, white below; 3 rather wide irregular bands of white 

 over the back, the first of these at posterior end of spinous dorsal and at origin of soft dorsal, this 

 band separated above by a small brown band, but the whole area joining into one band on the lateral 

 line; second white band at middle of soft dorsal, third over caudal peduncle, the 3 joined by irregular 

 blotches of whitish; 3 round white spots below median line of body, and a few scattered small white 

 dots over body; small blue dots over cheeks; 3 dark bands on underpart of head alternating with 



