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This species is rather common in the Vaisigano, Vaivaae, and other streams of Upolu. 

 Thirty-one specimens from Apia, Samoa. The type is no. -51819, U. S. National Museum, from 

 Vaivase River, Apia; length 2.50 inches. 



521. Arnbassis miops Giinther. Rarotonga. 



Ambassis miops Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, 655, streams of Rarotonga. 



522. Ambassis gigas (Ramsay & Ogilby). Streams of New Guinea. 

 Ambassis gigas Ramsey & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1886, 9, New Guinea. 



523. Ambassis macracanthus (Bleeker). Streams of New Guinea (Macleay) ; Java. 



PRIOPIS Kuhl & Van Hasaelt. 



524. Priopis papuensis (Alleyne & Macleay). Streams of New Guinea. 

 Ambassis papuensis Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1876, 267. 



525. Priopis agrammus (Giinther). New Guinea (Ramsay & Ogilby); North Australia. 

 Ambassis agrammus Gunthcr, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, 57, Cape York. 



TETRACENTRTJM Macleay. 

 Dorsal fin continuous; anal spines four. Otherwise resembling Amia (Ajiogon). 



526. Tetracentrurn apogonoides Macleay. Streams of New Guinea. 

 Tetracentrum apogonoides Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1883, 256, Goldie R. (New Guinea). 



Family KUHLIID^. 



KUHLIA Gill. 



527. Kuhlia rupestris (Lac6pede). Sesele. Samoa; Guam; Vanicolo; Fiji; Tonga; Rodriguez; 



Futuna; New Hebrides; Molicolo; New Guinea; Solomon Is.; Caroline Is.; Palau Is.; New 

 Caledonia; East Indies. 



This species, which closely resembles the American black bass in form and habits, is very common 

 in all the rivers of Samoa, where it reaches a weight of 5 or 6 pounds. Many specimens were taken, 

 most of them from the deep swimming-pool in the Vaisigano River above Apia. 



528. Kuhlia margmata (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Salele. Fiji; Tahiti; Samoa; Gilbert Is.; 



Papua; Bonham I.; Misol; East Indies. 

 This species is found in the river mouths of Samoa, about a dozen specimens, mostly small, being 

 taken in the Vaisigano River at Apia. 



529. Kuhlia urvillii Boulenger. South Pacific; locality unknown. 



530. Kuhlia malo (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Hawaii; Tahiti; Tubuai; Paumotu Is. (Seale) ; Fiji; 



Rodriguez; Laysan. 



531. Kuhlia taeniura ( Cuvier & Valenciennes) . Safole. Samoa; Johnston I.; Marcus I.; Tubuai; 



Paumotu Is. ; and Tahiti (Seale); East Indies; Galapagos Is. 

 This species, unlike the others of the genus, never enters fresh water, nor is it found about the 

 reefs. It frequents the "iron-bound," or lava, coast in rather deep water. Our specimens, about a 

 dozen in number, were taken on the northwest shore of Tutuila, opposite Pago Pago. 



532. Kuhlia caudovittata (Lacepede). Tahiti. 



Family SERRANID£. 

 PLECTR0P0MUS (Cuvier) Oken. (Lates Cuvier & Valenciennes.) 



533. Plectropomus calcarifer (Bloch). New Guinea (Macleay); Australia. 



PIKEA Stemdachner. 



534. Pikea aurora Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



