410 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



PSEUDOGOBIODON Bleeker. 

 Pseudogobiodon Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. 1875, 309 (citrinus). 

 No canine teeth, otherwise like Gobiodon. 



1497. Pseudogobiodon citrinus (Riippell). Ulitui (big-head). Samoa; Ponape (Giinther); East 



Indies. 



This species is very abundant in the coral reefs at Apia, where we obtained 32 specimens. The 

 ground color varies from yellow to brown, but the blue vertical stripes are very constant. 



One specimen in life from Apia, yellow-olive; fins all orange, the edges deep orange, the first dorsal 

 edged with black; iris orange. Another was brown, tinged with orange; a blue line down from eye; 

 a black opercular spot with a vertical blue line before and behind it; orange, deepest under eye and on 

 edge of pectoral. Other specimens were blackish olive; fins all broadly edged with blackish orange; 

 no black edge on dorsal; a black spot on end of opercle. 



1498. Pseudogobiodon verticalis (Macleay). New Guinea. 

 Gobiodon verticalis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1884, 333. 



SICYOPTERUS Gill. 



Sicyopterus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 101 (stimpsoni) . 

 Lower jaw with 2 canines in front, snout tumid, projecting over the small mouth; body with small 

 scales. 



1499. Sicyopterus stimpsoni Gill. Streams of Hawaii. 



Sicyopterus stimpsoni Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 101, streams of Hawaii. 

 Sicydium nigrescens Giinther, Shore Fishes Challenger, 60, 1880, streams about Hilo. 



1500. Sicyopterus taeniurus (Giinther). Fiji; Aneiteum; Samoa; in streams. 



Sicydium lagocephalus Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1868, 35, Viti Levu (Fiji), Namusi stream; not of Cuvier & 



Valenciennes. 

 Sicydinus macrostetholepis Kner, op. cit., 35, Samoa; not of Bleeker. 

 Sicydium tssniurum Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 183, Viti Levu, Aneiteum, New Hebrides. Ogilvie-Grant, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1884, 161, Aneiteum, Viti Levu. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, dark olive; 7 or 8 diffuse spots along side; a trace of 

 lateral stripe along head; a black bar below eye; caudal pale olive with 3 black lengthwise stripes, the 

 upper and lower oblique; dorsals plain dusky olive; pectoral plain olive; scales small; first dorsal 

 pointed; ventral very small; head depressed; mouth inferior; teeth large; body low. 



Two specimens agreeing very well with Giinther's figure were taken in the stream at Pago Pago. 



1501. Sicyopterus albotseniatus (Giinther). 

 Sicyoptents albotxniatus Giinther; Fische der Siidsee, 184, Hawaii. 



This fish is known only from the drawing of Mr. Andrew Garrett, made at Hilo, and published 

 by Dr. Giinther. 



1502. Sicyopterus pugnans (Ogilvie-Grant). Samoa (Grant). 

 Sicydium pugnans Ogilvie-Grant, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1884, 160, pi. xi, Savaii. 



This species, from the rivers of the island of Savaii, was not seen by us. 



1503. Sicyopterus tause Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 4.5 in length; depth 6.75; eye 4 in head; dorsal VI, 13; anal 11; scales about 62; snout 3.5; 

 interorbital 3 in head. 



Body elongate, compressed; the snout somewhat projecting, overhanging the small mouth; minute 

 teeth in jaws and on vomer and palatines; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head; origin of spinous dorsal 

 posterior to line with distal end of ventrals, its longest spine 1.5 in head; base of soft dorsal 3.45 in 

 length without caudal, its longest ray about 1.35 in head; anal similar to soft dorsal, its longest ray 

 about 1.5 in head; origin of anal distinctly below origin of soft dorsal, being about equally distant 

 between tip of snout and base of caudal fin; pectoral, 1.1 in head; ventral disk 2 in head, the anterior 

 membranous margin of the cup entire; caudal almost square, its length 1.1 in head. 



