274 EXPEDITION" OF THE " AI,I5ATROSS," 1899-1900. 



spot about size of ej'e, under anterior part of soft dorsal, about .GO of it above 

 lateral line; merest trace of another spot under 15th dorsal ray and nearly on 

 lateral line. 



EQUULIDAE. 



Leiognathus fasciatus (I>ackpede). 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fi.sh., IQOti, 25, ji. L'73. 



Clupca fasciata Lacepedb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1S03, 5, p. 425, 460, 463. 



One specimen, No. 08816, 4 inches long from Suva, Fiji Islands. 



Leiognathus splendens (Cuvier.) 



Eqiiiila aplniilcns CnviER, Rog. Aniiii. cil. 2, 1S2!I. 2, p. 212. Dav, Fishes of India, 1S76, p. 230, 

 pi. 52, fis. 3. 



Two specimens, Nos. 08882, M. C. Z. 29795, 08826, 3| and -il inches long 

 from Suva, Fiji Islands. 



Leiognathus edentula (Bloch). 



Scomber edetUulus Bloch, Ichtli., 1795, 12, taf. 428. 



Equula edentula Day, Fishes of India, 1876, p. 23S, pi. 52, fig. 1. 



Five specimens (young) Ig to if inches long from Suva, Fiji Islands. 



APOGONIDAE. 

 Apogon Lacepede. 



In 1854 in Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. 6, p. 321, Bleeker founded the genus Apo- 

 gonichthys, basing it on A. perdix and giving, before his description of ^. perdix, 

 a list of species comprised in the new genus; A. auritus (Cuvier & Valenciennes, 

 7, p. 332) heading this list. 



The distinctive characters of Apogonichthys, he states, are the smooth 

 preopercle and intramarginal crest, and the presence of palatine teeth. Later, 

 in the description of A. perdix he states that the lateral line anteriorly consists 

 of jx'rceptible simple tubes and inconspicuous tubes posteriorly. Thus the 

 only character wherein Apogonichthys differs from Apogon is in the smooth 



