NO. 1625. ON FISHES FROM FIJI—JORDAN AND DICKERSON. 617 
of free rays on the upper edge of the pectoral, a character present in 
the young of Dendrochirus, but lost with age. The species of Pterois 
proper are larger fishes with longer fins. In Morita’s plate of this 
epecies (Fishes of Samoa, Plate IV, fig. 1) the artist has, from a young 
example, represented the upper rays of the pectoral as detached and 
has made them much longer than in the adult. In the adult these 
rays are fully united with the rest of the fin, and the rays are grad- 
ually longer to the sixth. The ventrals reach the base of the last dor- 
sal spine. The pectorals reach the base of the last dorsal ray, as in the 
adult types of Dendrochirus sausaulele. Morita’s drawing was taken 
from a young example in which pectorals and ventrals are notably 
longer than in the adult and the upper rays of the pectoral are more 
elongate and partly free. The free tips are apparently broken off 
with age. 7 
Family ECHENEID. 
42. REMORA REMORA (Linnaeus). 
Numerous specimens were taken attached to the shark, Carcharias 
insularum. When the shark was taken out of the water these fishes 
still kept their hold. The larger sucking fish, Mcheneis naucrates, 
lets go its hold the moment the shark is raised out of the water. 
Family GOBIITD i. 
43. RUPPELLIA KANTHOSOMA (Bleeker). 
Taken in the crevices of corals at Fiji. The generic name Rup- 
pellia of Swainson (1839), based on Gobius echinocephalus, has prior- 
itv over Paragobiodon Bleeker. 2 
Family BLENNIID A. 
44. SALARIAS LINEATUS Bleeker. 
On the reef at Suva. 
