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Aulostoma chincnse "Sclileg. Faun. Japou. Poiss. 320"; " Richards, Ichth. Chin. 247''; 

 "Peters in Wiegm. Arch. 258, 1855"; Gthr. Cat. Fish. Brit. Miis. iii, 538, 

 1861 (Amboyna); " Playfair in Fish. Zanz. 79"; Blkr. Quat. Mem. Ichth. N. 

 Guin6e, 6 (name only); Street Bull. Nat. Mus. No. 774, 1877 (Honolulu); 

 Blkr. Enum. Poiss. Japan 14, 1879 (name only); Gthr. Jour. Mus. Godetf. 

 Fische der Siidsee, 221, taf. 123, figs. B and C, 1881 (Indian Ocean and Archi- 

 pelago, Sandwich, Society, and Paumatu Islands, Aneiteum). 



Polijpferkhthiis valeniiui "Bleek. Ternate, ii, 608." 



Habitat. — Cliiua, New Guinea, Honolulu, Amboyna, Indian Ocean, 

 Indian Arcbip., Society and Paumatu Islands, Aneiteum, Ternate, Jobn- 

 ston's Island. 



Head 3 (3i); deptb 12 (12^) ; D. X-3, 26; A. 3, 27. 



Snout nearly 1^ in bead ; its profile somewbat concave from end of 

 snout to occiput. Eye 9 in snout, its diameter a little greater tban 

 interorbital widtb. 



Spines of lirst dorsal free, remote, equal in lengtb to orbital diame- 

 ter ; eacb spine attacbed by a broad membrane, and received into a 

 narrow groove. Soft dorsal witb a somewbat irregular margin, first 

 brancbed rays 34 in snout, last ones about G in snout. Anal similar to 

 soft dorsal, its base sligbtly longer tban tbe dorsal ; base of soft dorsal 

 sligbtly longer tban caudal ijeduncle. Caudal fin 3i in snout. Yen- 

 trals subtruncate, 5^^ in snout, about as long as pectorals. Peduncle 

 nearly straigbt, narrow, its deptb being ^ of greatest deptb of body. 



Color, in spirits, brownisb olive above, ligbt olive below ; four ligbter 

 borizontal olive bands on bodj-, tbe two below lateral line not distinct 

 except posteriorly — wbere tbe ground color is brownisb below as well 

 as above tbe lateral line — and on bead, bebind eye, tbree of tbese ligbt 

 bands being very distinct across tbeopercles; tbree ligbt oblique bands 

 across snout, witb many otber irregular ligbt markings; a black band 

 across maxillary, borizontal witb snout; a small black spot in front of 

 eacb pectoral and on a level witb its lower edge ; a larger one bebind 

 eacb pectoral in a line witb tbe first. On median line of belly are six 

 black spots about tbe size of tbe pui)il ; between vent and anal fin are 

 four more similar ones. A black streak from tbe pupil tbrougb tbe nos- 

 trils. Peritoneum reddisb brown. 



One fine specimen (2(3819), 2Gi incbes in total lengtb. 



4.— POLYNEMUS KURU Bleeker. 



Pohjnemus IcuruBWiv. Nat. T. Ned. Ind. iv, 600, 1853 (Ternate); Blkr. Conspect. Spec. 

 Pise. p. G (name only); BUa-. Enum. Spec. Pise. Archip. ludic. 40, 1859 (Hal- 

 maheira, Ternate, Amboyna, Saparua ; name only); Gunther, Cat. Fishes 

 Brit. Mus. ii, 325, 1860 (taken from Bleeker) ; Blkr. Conspec. Molucc. Cognit. 

 p. 5 (Ternate, Amboyna, Saparua ; name only) ; Blkr. Beschrij. Visch. Am- 

 boina, p. 4 (name only) ; Blkr. Achtste Bijd. Visch. Amboiua, pp. 3, 14 

 (name only); Blkr. Tweede Bijd. Schth. Fauna, Halmaheira, pi). 2, 4 (name 

 only). 



Triclddion kuru Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 275, 1861 (name only). 



