NOTES ON FISHES OBTAINED IN SUMATRA, JAVA, AND 



TAHITI 



By Henry W. Fowler 

 0/ the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phiiadelphia 



AND 



Barton A. Bean 



Of the Linited States Xaiiortoi Museum 



INTRODUCTION 



In October, November, and December, 1925, Lieut. H. C. Kellers, 

 United States Navy, during the Solar Eclipse Expedition obtained in 

 Java and Sumatra representatives of 100 species of fishes, and in 

 June, 1925, Mr. J. Morgan Clements, of New York, while on a 

 cruise along the north coast of Tahiti, Society Islands, collected 

 representatives of 25 species, all of which have been deposited in the 

 United States National Museum, and as but few collections of fishes 

 from the Dutch Indies find their way into American museums we 

 have prepared the present paper, in which several forms of excep- 

 tional interest are noted in detail and one is described as new. 



To the already extensive bibliography of Sumatran fishes reference 

 may here be made to that of Fowler in the Journal of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, pp. 557-559), 



1. FISHES COLLECTED IN SUMATRA AND JAVA DURING THE 

 NAVAL SOLAR ECLIPSE EXPEDITION, 1925, BY LIEUT. H. C.- 

 KELLERS, UNITED STATES NAVY 



Family CLUPEIDAE 



1. DLSSLMIERIA HASSELTU Bleeker. 



Three, 52 to 71 mm. long, from Benkoelen. 



2. HABENGULA BRACHYSOMA (Bleeker). 



One 113 mm. long. Benkoelen. 



3 ILISHA BRACHYSOMA (Bleeker). 



One 88 mm. long, December 19, 1925. 



4. OPISTHOPTERUS MACROGN'ATHLS Bleeker. 



One 116 mm. long, November, 1925. 



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