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296. Microphis torrentius Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 9.30 to 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 eve; dorsal 32; anal 3; rings 

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



'Ain. 

 Fig. 22. — Microphis torrentius Jordan & Seale, new species. 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 Mack line along side 

 of snout through eye, across opercle to b.ise of pectoral; anal with four narrow cross-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. 51725, U. S. National Museum, from 

 near Apia, length 3.25 inches. 



GASTEROTOKEUS Heckel. 



297. Gasterotokeus biaculeatus (Bloch). Samoa; Papua; East 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 

 black 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 Kaup. 



298. Iehthyocampus erythrseus Gilbert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



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



228). 



HIPPOCAMPUS Kafinesque. 



300. Hippocampus fisheri, Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



301. Hippocampus hilonis Jordan & Evermann. Hilo, Hawaii. 



302. Hippocampus kuda Bleeker. New Guinea ( Macleay, as S. guttulatus) ; East Indies. 



Family PEGASID^. 



PEGASUS " Linnaeus, 1758 (rol'dans). 



Catapkraclus Gronow, 1763 (dracO=volitans) . 

 Earypegasns Bleeker, 1864 (draco=volitans) . 

 Zalises Jordan & Snyder (umitengu, near draco). 



303. Pegasus volitans Linna?us. New Britain (Peter.-, Perl. Mon. 1S76, 843); East Indies. 



304. Pegasus papilio Gilbert. Deep seas of Hawaii. 



PARAPEGASUS Dumdril. 



305. Parapegasus natans (Linnieus). New Guinea; Australia; China. 



"The genus Pegasus was based, by Linnreus in 1758, on a single species, Pegasus volitans. In 1763 the aa Cataphractus 



of Gronow was based on the same species, which in 1766 Linnceus renamed Pegasus draeouis. The same genus was called 

 Eurypegasus by Bleeker in 1804 and Zalises by Jordan & Snyder in 1902. 



