Fishes of the South Pacific. 5 



Family ALBULID^. 

 Albula vulpes (Linnaeus). 



Depth 5 ; head 3.90 (without flap); eye 4.75 ; D. 17 ; A. 9 ; 

 scales 79 in lateral line ; interorbital space 3.95. 



Body elongate, slightly compressed, scaled, the lateral line 

 complete ; a row of modified scales down the back ; elongate axil- 

 lary scales ; head naked ; snout conical, overlapping the small in- 

 ferior mouth ; maxillar}' short, forming lateral margin of upper 

 jaw and reaching to below the eye ; jaws, vomer and palatins with 

 bands of villiform teeth ; broad patches of coarse blunt pavement 

 teeth on base of tongue and sphenoidal bones ; eye covered with 

 adipose membrane. 



Color in spirits, silvery with about 10 narrow duskj- longitudi- 

 nal lines above the lateral line and several less distinct ones below; 

 fins 3-ellowish white, the caudal margined with dusky. Four 

 specimens, from Tahiti, Nos. 716, 717, 14S9 and 1490 B. M. 



Two young specimens were taken at Fate, New Hebrides, 

 No. 833 B. M. 



Family CLUPEID.F:. 

 Sardinella kunzei (Bleeker). 



Two specimens. Nos. 866 and 867 B. M.. from Fate, New 

 Hebrides. 



Three specimens, Nos. 1092, 1093 and 12 14 B. M., from Short- 

 land Id., Solomons. 



Stolephorus delicatulus (Giinther). 



One specimen. No. 1199 B. M., from Shortland Id., Solomons. 



Family SYNODONTID.F:. 

 Synodus varius (Quoy & Gaimard). 



One specimen. No. 829 B. M., from Mangareva, Gambler Ids. 

 Trachinocephalus myops (Forster). 



Two specimens, Nos. 1094 and 1153 B. M., from Shortland 

 Id., Solomons. 



One specimen. No. 1980 B. jNI., from Rarotonga, Cook Ids. 



Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard). 



One specimen, No. 1298 B. M., Shortland Id., Solomons. 



Family ANGUILLID.F:. 

 Anguilla megastoma Kaup. 



Depth 2.10 in head; head 2.80 in distance from snout to vent; 

 length of head 1.75 in distance from gill openings to origin of dor- 

 sal; eye 2.10 in interorbital; snout from opening of posterior nostril 



