384 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



GUAVINA Bleeker. 

 This genus resembles Eleotris, but lacks the preopercular spine characteristic of that genus. 



1404. Guavina g-yrinoid.es ( Bleeker) . New Guinea (Macleay); Palauls. ; East Indies. 



1405. Guavina immaculata (Macleay). New Guinea. 



Eleotris immaculatus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 3883, 69, 208, New Guinea 



OPHIOCARA Gill. 



Ophiocara Gill. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 270 {ophiocephala) . 

 This genus is characterized by the large scales and short depressed head, the form being like that 

 of the genus Ophicephalus. Cheeks scaly. 



1406. Ophiocara porocephala (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Palau Is.; Caroline Is.; New Ireland: 



Vanicolo; New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



1407. Ophiocara aporos (Bleeker). Fiji; Gilolo; Oualan; East Indies. 



1408. Ophiocara cantoris (Giinther). Fiji; East Indies. 



1409. Ophiocara macrolepidota (Bloch). Fiji; New Guinea ( Macleay) ; East Indies. 



BTTTIS Bleeker. 



1410. Butis butis (Hamilton-Buchanan). New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



GOBIOMORPHUS Gill. 



This genus contains short-bodied Eleotrids with large scales, the cheeks and opercles naked, and 

 the cheeks with rows of papillae. 



1411. Gobiomorphus eug-enius (Jordan & Evermann). Hawaii. 



1412. Gobiomorphus sclateri (Steindachner). Tahiti; Samoa. 

 Eleotris sclateri Steindachner Ichth. Beitr., vni, 157, 1880, Tahiti. 



This handsomely colored little fish occurs in some abundance in the reefs about Apia and Pa<*o 

 Pago. We have 7 specimens from Apia and 5 from Pago Pago. 



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Fig. 73. — Gobiomorphus sclateri (Steindachner). 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, light gray, with three broad brown cross-bands; first dorsal 

 yellowish spotted: second dorsal brown, yellowish at tip, mottled; caudal profusely spotted; anal and 

 ventral blackish; pectoral barred; head very much mottled. 



Another, from Pago Pago, was grayish white, with blackish brown transverse bands; everywhere 

 with black points; on dorsal and caudal weak blotches of thin yellowish. 



Still another, a very small specimen from Apia, was pale gray, with a black bar at base of caudal; 

 two black dots below eye; four yellowish white cross-bars, alternating with black; a jet-black spot in 

 axil; fins whitish, scarcely dotted. 



