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on the caudal peduncle posteriorly. Also a few dusky dots on post- 

 ocular region. Opercle silvery. 

 Apogon maculiferus Garrett. 



Two examples from the Hawaiian Islands. Coll. Dr. J. K. Townsend. 



This species belongs to subgenus Ostorhinchus Lacepede, distinguished 

 from the previous subgenus chiefly by the presence of VII spines 

 in the first dorsal. Other species which I have examined are Suma- 

 tran examples of A. evanidus Fowler, A. hyalosoma Bleeker and A. 

 novemfasciatus Cuvier, Japanese examples of A. notatus (Houttuyn), 

 A. lineatus Schlegel, A. semilineatus Schlegel and A. niger Steindachner. 

 A. snyderi Jordan and Evermann and A. menesemus Jenkins from the 

 Hawaiian Islands belong to subgenus Pristiapogon Klunzinger, dis- 

 tinguished by having both preopercular ridges serrate. 



ASTRAPOGON subgen. nov. 

 Type Apogonichthys stellatus Cope. 



Distinguished from subgenus Apogonichthys Bleeker, Nat. Tijds, 

 Ned. Ind., VII, 1854, pp. 312, 321 (type Apogonichthys perdix Bleeker), 

 by the long ventrals, which reach well beyond the front of the anal. 



('A<TTpn>j star; a, without; -o/cuv^ beard.) 



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Fig 10. — Apogonichthys stellatus Cope. (Type.) 



