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Show 1884.] GENERA SICYDIUM A N D LENTIPES. 161 brown; lower margin of the pectoral white-edged; caudal with dark brown and white band on the upper and lower margins. The largest specimen measures 2-L inches. Hab. Savaii. Many specimens-adult, half-grown, and young. 9. SICYDIUM T^ENIURUM, Gthr. Sicydium lagocephalum (non Pall.), Kner, SB. Ak. Wien, Iviii. p. 327. Sicydium macrostetholepis, Giinth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 94. Sicydium tamiurum, Giinth. Fische der Siidsee, p. 183, pi. cxii. fig. C. D. 6 jj. A. jg. L. lat. 54. L. trans. 16. Teeth in the upper jaw tricuspid. A row of rather large tuberculous papillae on the gum beneath the upper lip, with larger elongate median papilla above the maxillary suture; upper lip with a median cleft; maxillae contain an angle of about 75° ; horizontal teeth conspicuous. The total length of the body (without the caudal) is four and a half times the length of the head ; the width and height of the head are subequal and two thirds of the length. The height of the body is contained four and three quarter times in the length. Scales subequal and rather large, except the first eight or ten rows on the occiput. The diameter of the eye is contained five and a half times in the length of the head and two and a half in the interorbital space. The length of the pectoral is greater than the length of the head; the length of the caudal is less than one fourth of the total length of the body. The third dorsal spine is produced into a filament one and a half times the height of the body. Colour, body and fins uniform brownish ; second dorsal with several transverse rows of dots on the rays; caudal with dark horseshoelike marginal band met by a second passing along its middle rays from the root. The largest specimen measures 3| inches. Hab. Aneiteum ; Viti Levu. Five adult specimens (types). 10. SICYDIUM LAGOCEPHALUM, Pall. Gobius lagocephalus, Pail. Spicil, Zool. viii. p. 14, pi. 2. figs. 6-7. Sicydium lagocephalum, Cuv. & Val. xii. p. 174 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 92; Kner, c Novara,' Fische, p. 181. D. 6-Q. A. To. Teeth in the upper jaw tricuspid; a row of papillae on the gum beneath the upper lip, with a larger median papilla above the maxillary suture ; maxillae contain an angle of about 75°. Horizontal teeth conspicuous; upper lip with a median cleft. The total length of the body is five and a half times the length of the head ; the width and height of the head are equal. The > |