434 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



1635. Petroscirtes obliquus Garman. Samoa. 



Petroscirtes obliquus Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. xxxi.x, no. 8, 1903, 237, with plnte, Fiji. 



Of this species we have one example from Apia more brightly colored than in Mr. Garman's figure, 

 but with the characteristic oblique streaks. . 



Color in alcohol olive-brown with darker brown spots and diagonal or angled stripes; a large round 

 dark spot behind eye; under side of head pale, with 5 narrow, dark cross-stripes; belly blue; a row of 

 large dark spots on back and base of dorsal; fin otherwise dusky; margin of spinous dorsal pale; 

 caudal pale, unspotted; anal dusky; pectoral pale, minutely spotted with darker; ventral pale. 



1636. Petroscirtes g-ermaini Sauvage. New Caledonia. 

 Petroscirtes j^ermemu Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philora. 1883, 158, New Caledonia. 



This species, ctoss-banded, is quite unlike any other known to us. 



ENCHELYTJRT/S Peters. 

 Enchelyurus Peters, Berl. Mon. 1868, 268 (flavipes). 

 This genus differs from Petroscirtes in having the vertical fins confluent, the body short and deep. 

 The typical species is from the Philippines. 



1637. Enchelyurus ater (Gunther). Hawaii; Samoa; Tahiti. 



Petroscirtes ater Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, 199, taf. 115, fig. E, 1873, Tahiti. 



Aspidontus brunneolus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1903), 510, fig. 50, Honolulu. 



This rare little fish seems to be rather common at Samoa. We have 25 examples fron> Pago Pago 

 and 16 from Apia. Gunther describes the ventrals as reaching the anal, but in his figure the fins are 

 much shorter. Our specimens show much variation in this character, some having the ventrals twice 

 as long as others; but 2 examples have them as long as shown in Giinther's figure. 



Jenkins' specimens from Hawaii, called Aspidontus brunneolus, seem to be identical with ours from 

 Samoa. 



Color in life of a specimen from Apia, uniform blackish, becoming clear olive green on caudal. 

 Other specimens in alcohol have the head and body uniform black-brown, slightly lighter than fins, 

 W'hich are black. 



Family GOBIESOCID^E. 



CREPIDOGASTER Giinther. 



1638. Crepidogaster lineatus Sauvage. New Caledonia. 

 Crepidonaster lineatus Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1883, 158, New Caledonia. 



TRACHELOCHISMUS Brisout de Barneville. 



1639. Traeheloehismus pinnulatus (Forster). Fiji (Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss Wien 1868, 55); New 



Zealand. 



Family CONGROGADID^. 



CONGROGADT/S Giinther. 



1640. Congrogadus marginatus Vaillant & Sauvage. Hawaii. 



1641. Congrogadus subducens Richardson. New Guinea (Gunther); Australia. 



Family XENOCEPHALID^E. 



XENOCEPHALTJS Kaup. 



1642. Xenoeephalus armatus Kaup. New Ireland. 



Xenocejihalus armatus Kaup, Wiegmann's Archiv, 1858, 86, New Ireland. Gunther, Cat., TV, 399. 



