THE SHORK FISHES. 2(33 



toral, tlw eye is very large, therefore it would seem that if the name of C'uvier ct 

 Valenciennes is used it nnist be applied to a large-eyed species, such as S. for- 

 stcri of Bleeker, and of (Uinther Catalogue 2, and it will include .S. {oxeuuia 

 Fowler. But it is not S. forsteri of Giinther's Siidsee, with its small eye, accord- 

 ingly the latter must be identified with some other species or be given a new name. 

 It may be Sphyraena jello Cuvier & Valenciennes, with Day's description of 

 which the figure agrees fairly well. 



Sphyraena forsteri of Jordan & Scale, Fishes of Samoa is specihcally identical 

 with the form that we have identified with S. obtusata. 



POLYNEMIDAE. 



Polydactylus kuru (Bleeker). 



Polyiicmits L-uni Hleekek, X.it. Tijils. X(-(l. Ind., IS.M, 2, ji. (iOU. CIuxtheh, Cat., 1S60, 2, p. 32.5. 



Twenty-three specimens. No. 05S36, Al. C Z. 29779, 2j to 8 inches long 

 from Nukuhiva, ^Marquesas Islands. Dorsal VIII-I, 13; anal III, 11; scales 

 about 60; pectoral filaments 6; caudal long, upper lobe 3.33 in total length. 



FISTULARIDAE. 



Fistularia petimba LACEpf:DE. 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1S03, 5, p. 349, 350. 



Fisliiltiriu (Ici/n-ssa Gunther, Fi.schc dcr Siidst'c, 1881, 7, p. 221. 



Twenty specimens (young), from Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands. Two 

 specimens, No. 09074 (small, dried up), from Arhno Atoll, Marshall Islands. 

 One specimen. No. 0S900, 82 inches long from Moen, Truk Group, Caroline 

 Islands. No. 05810, 14^ inches long from Vavau, Tonga Islands. No. 05812, 

 44 inches long from Suva, Fiji Islands. Three specimens from the Paumotu 

 Islands as follows: Nos. A67, M. C. Z. 29724, 26 inches long, and A64, 26 inches 

 long from Makemo; and 05811, IO4 inches long from Fakarava. 



