AUG 14 1903 



No. 8. — Some Fishes from Australasia. By Samuel Garman. 



The notes and descriptions subjoined are based on specimens taken by 

 Mr. Alexander Agassiz and members of his party on his recent expedi- 

 tions to the Islands and Coral IJeefs of Fiji and to tliii Great Barrier 

 Reefs of Eastern Australia. Owing to the fact that no special attempts 

 were made to collect fishes, the collection is not very large. Such indi- 

 viduals as came in the way while collecting invertebrates were preserved. 

 Among them are some that belong to species ranging throughout 

 I'olynesia, to China and the Red Sea ; there are others that probably 

 have been identified witli species tolerably well known on account of 

 close affinities, but which, because of differences lost sight of under 

 former arrangement, are now given descriptions and names, and still 

 others that have escaped notice hitherto. Only species inhabiting the 

 shoals around the islands or the reefs or the upper waters of the open 

 sea are represented. 



Epinephelus merra Bj,ocii. 



D. 11 + 17; A. 3 + 9 ; Y. 6; P. l(j; LI. 91. 



Taken on the reef at Suva, Fiji Islands. The markings vary some from those 

 of the published figure. Certain of the spots are darker than the others and 

 their arrangement is such as to form transverse bands, of which one crosses 

 the nape and descends to the operculum, another passes downward, including 

 the second to the fifth spinous rays of the dorsal, across the flank, a third goes 

 down from the hindmost three of the same spines and a foiutli crosses from 

 the middle rays of the soft portion of this fin to the anal. Three or four larger 

 and blacker spots are to be seen on the basal portions of the pectoral rays. * 



Apogon nubilus, sp. nov. 



Plate 1, FiR. 1. 



Br. r. 7 ; D. 7 + 10 ; A. 2 + 8 ; V. 6 ; T. 12 ; LI. 26; Ltr. 2 + 6. 



Form short, stout, compressed ; depth nearly one-third of total length. 

 Head deep, short, in length e(jual to depth of body ; crown depressed, nearly 

 flat. Snout Ijlunt, short, half as long as the eye. Eye large, two-sevenths as 



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