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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Family MACRORHAMPHOSID£. 

 MACRORHAMPHOSUS Lacepede. 



281. Macrorhamphosus brevispinis (Kner & Steindachner). Samoa. 

 This species, recorded from Samoa, was not seen by us. 



282. Macrorhamphosus fmschi (Hilgendorf). New Britain. 

 Centriscus ftnschi Hilgendorf, Nat. Freunde, 1884, 52, New Britain. 



283. Macrorhamphosus hawaiiensis Gilbert. Hawaii. 



Family CEXTRISCIDiE. 



CENTRISCUS Linnajua. 



284. Centriscus komis (Macleay-). Palau Is. 



Amphisile komis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. Ill, 1878, 166, Komis (Palau Is.). 



a;OLISCUS Jordan & Starks. 



285. .iEoliscus strig-atus (Giinther). New Guinea (Macleay) ; East Indies. 



Family SOLENOSTOMIM. 



SOLENOSTOMTJS Lacepede. 



286. Solenostomus cyanopterus Bleeker. Hawaii; New Guinea; East Indies. 



Family SYNGNATHIDjE. 



CORYTHROICHTHYS Kaup. 



287. Corythroichthys -waitei Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Rings 17+35; dorsal 29 or 30, situated on the first 6 caudal rings; snout slender, as viewed from 

 above its edges parallel to the eyes, where the head is abruptly much widened; length of snout 1.2 in 



Fig. 17. — Corythroichthys waitei Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



head; eyes large, produced above profile, 4.5 in head; a sharp semiconnected ridge extending from 

 behind eyes to just behind pectoral base, three lobed, the first lobe on occiput, the other two on body 

 plates; a sharp ridge extending back from supraorbital crest across parietal region; top of snout with 

 a thin, low ridge; superior thoracic ridge not continuous with superior caudal ridge, but the former 

 extending above the beginning of the latter for 3 or 4 rings; trunk contained 1.5 in caudal portion of 

 the body; color very light, made slightly dusky by a network of fine lines along the sides, these inter- 

 rupted by diffused light cross-bars on every fifth ring, just anterior to which the network of dark lines 

 is more conspicuous and extends across the back; dark lines irregularly connected with each other, 

 extending more or less horizontally back from' the eye. In life snout rose-red, head with black stripe; 

 general color pale yellowish; caudal bright rose-red, its upper and lower margins pale. 



The type is no. 51723, IT. S. National Museum, 34 inches in length. This species is named for Mr. 

 Edgar R. Waite, the accomplished curator of the Australian Museum, now of the Canterbury Museum 

 of Christchurch, New Zealand. 



