56 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1897. 



A COLLECTION OF FISHES OBTAINED IN SWATOW, CHINA, BY 

 MISS ADELE M. FIELDE. 



BY CLOUDSLEY RUTTER. 



In the year 1885, Miss Adele M. Fielde, a well-known missionary, 

 then resident in Swatow, China, sent to the University of Indiana, a 

 considerable collection of the fishes of that port. A series of these 

 fishes, still undescribed, was purchased by the Leland Stanford, Jr. 

 University, and placed in my hands for study and identification. 

 These species, 73 in number, are enumerated in the present paper. 

 At the end of the paper, I give a nominal list of the species recorded 

 from Swatow, not contained in this collection. Dr. H. E. Sauvage 1 

 gives a list' of 68 species, only 23 of which were sent by Miss Fielde. 

 Dr. Franz Steindachner describes 2 three new species of gobies 

 not in the present collection. These species are included in the 

 present list on the authority of Sauvage and Steindachner. 



My obligations are due to President Jordan for various aids in 

 this investigation which was placed by him in my hands. 



GALEIDJE. 



Prionace glauca (Linngeus). 



Squalus glaucus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 235, 1758. 

 Carcharias glaucus, Gunther, Cat. Fishes, VIII, 364, 1870. 



One young specimen, 12 inches long. 



Length of snout in front of mouth equals width between eyes and 

 equals distance from eye to second gill-opening. Line connecting 

 inner edge of nostrils less than one-third the distance from mouth 

 to tip of snout. A notch and protuberance on front margin of nos- 

 tril. One-fourth of eye in front mouth. Labial grooves a little 

 shorter than nostril. Hinder margins of pectorals emarginate, the 

 upper angle blunt, reaching past origin of first dorsal. Depressed 

 dorsal reaches vertical from ventrals. Second dorsal inserted above 

 end of anal. Tip of dorsal and caudal black. 



DASYATID^. 



Dasyatis akajei (Miiller & Henle). 

 Recorded by Sauvage. 



^ull.Soc. Philom., 1881. 



5 Sitzungsb. Ak. Wiss. Wien., Oil, 1893. 



