276 EXPEDITION OF THE "ALBATROSS," 1899-1900. 



perdix Bleeker (Florisj. This species has an incomplete lateral line, an entire 

 preopercle and teeth on the palatines. The genus Apogonichthys is therefore 

 the same as Foa, and Fowleria (aurita) is genericallj^ distinct." The validity 

 of Fowleria depends upon whether A. aurita has palatine teeth. 



Professor Vaillant has kindly examinetl the type of Apogon auriius in the 

 Museum at Paris and states that there are teeth upon the vomer but none on 

 the palatines, and that it can be said that it has palatal but not palatine 

 teeth. Fowleria, based on the absence of palatine teeth, is therefore a valid 

 genus. 



Amia Gronovius, Zoophylaceum, 17lJ3, p. SU (nonbinomialj. 



Apogon Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1802, 3, p. 411 {ruber). 



Apogonichthys Bleeker, Nat. Tijds, Ned. Ind., 1854, 6, p. 321 (perdix). 



Foa Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comni., 1905, 23, pt. 1, 210 {brachy- 

 g ram nuts). 



Apogon frenatus \alenciennes. 



Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., 1832, 1, p. .57, pi. 4, fig. 4. Gunther, Cat. 1859, 1, )). 241. 

 GtiNTHER, Fisehe der Siidsee, 187.3, 1, p. 19, taf. 19, fig. A. 



Amia fretiata Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 1876, 7, p. 75, 89, 8, tab. 342, Perc. 64, fig. 2. 



Amia melanorhynchus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 1877, 8, tab. 343, Perc. 65, fig. 1 (not JcscriptionJ. 



Apogon snyderi Jokd.\n & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Coram., 1903, 22, p. 180. 



One specimen, No. 05828, 3g inches long from Papeete, Tahiti, Society 

 Islands. 



We have carefully compared this specimen and specimens of ^4. synderi in 

 the reserve series U. S. Bur. Fish, with Valenciennes's description and figure 

 of A. frenatus and cannot find that they differ. Jordan & Evermann (loc. cit.) 

 propose the name ^4. synderi for the fish which they say Gunther in Siidsee 

 erroneouslj^ calls A . frenatus ; they neglect, however, to say wherein CUinther is 

 in error. We find no discrepancies between figures and descriptions of Gunther 

 and Valenciennes, unless it be a slightly narrower lateral stripe in Valenciennes's 

 figure, which we consider unimportant. Bleeker has a figure and description 

 of A. frenatus which agrees with our specimens and which he says is the same as 

 the A. frenatus of Giinther's Catalogue, hut not the same as the .4. fremitus 

 described and figured in his Siidsee, the latter being according to Bleeker 

 A. fasciata. But Bleeker's description and figure oi A. fasciaia do not agree; 



