THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 411 



Color in spirits, yellowish with 7 rather broad bands of brownish over the back and down on side 

 to a little below median line, the posterior one being at base of caudal and forming a complete dusky 

 ring around caudal base; a row of about 10 small dark spots along base of soft dorsal; a dusky line at 

 base of anal; sides and top of head somewhat shaded with minute dark dots; fins without distinct 

 markings, a dark spot between eye and angle of mouth. 



Fig. 96.— Sicyopterus tause Jordan & Scale, new species. Type. 



One specimen, type no. 517S6, U. S. National Museum, from Vaisigano River, Apia; length 1.35 

 inches. It is named for Taua, a Rarotonga man, the most skillful of the fishermen of Apia. 



MICROSICYDIUM Bleeker. 



Microsicydium Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. 1875, 315 {gymnauchen) . 

 This genus may be provisionally distinguished from Sicyopterus by the large scales, 30 to 40. 



1504. Microsicydium eleg-ans (Steindachner). Tonga. 

 Sicydium eteyans Steindachner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1879, 152, Tonga. 



This strikingly colored species is well distinguished by its large scales (32). It was not taken 

 by us. 



LENTIPES Giinther. 

 Body naked, or nearly so. 



1505. Lentipes concolor (Gill). Rivers of Hilo, Hawaii. 



1506. Lentipes seminudus Giinther. Rivers of Hilo, Hawaii. 



This species, which we have not seen, may be the type of a distinct genus. 



G0BI0IDES Lace"pede. 



1507. Gobioides totoyensis Garman. Fiji. 



Gobioides totoyensis Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. xxxix, no. 8, 1901. 235, Tntoya (Fiji Is.). 



Family ECHENEIDID^ 



PHTHEIBICHTHYS Gill. 



* 1508. Phtheirichthys lineatus (Menzies). Pacific Ocean (Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 156); 

 tropical Atlantic (as a parasite on barracudas). 



LEPTECHENEIS Gill. 



1509. Leptecheneis naucrates (Linmeus). Talitaliuli. Samoa; Hawaii; New Guinea; warm seas 



generally. 



One very large specimen of this common fish was taken at Apia. Dorsal xxiv, 37. 

 Life color, all dark brown; lateral band obscure. 



ECHENEIS (Artedi) Linnaeus. (Remora Gill.) 



1510. Echeneis remora Linmeus. Hawaii; warm seas generally. 



