NOTE ON THE GENERIC NMIE SAFOLE, REPLACING BOU- 

 LENGERINA, FOR A GENUS OF KUHLIID FISHES. 



By David Starr Jordan, 

 Of Stanford University, California. 



In our recent paper on the Sparoid fishes of Japan * Jordan and 

 Thonij^son have adopted the generic name Bovlengerimi. Fowler^ 

 for the genus which contains the marine Kuhliidse. Dr. Leonhard 

 Stejneger calls my attention to tlie fact that the name Bmihngerina 

 was applied by Dr. Louis DoUo ^ to a genus of snakes. The genus 

 of fishes is thus left without a name. It may be called Safole. 

 This is the vernacular name in Samoa of SafoU tseniura, which 

 species (Dules txniurus Cuvier and Valenciennes) may be taken as 

 the type of the genus. 



Safole, in vSamoan, corresponds to the Hawaiian name Ahole-hole, 

 applied to Safole sandvicensis. 



1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, p. 522. 



' Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. I'hila., 1906, p. 512. 



» Bull. Mns. Roy. Nat. Hist. Bclgique, vol. 4, ISSfi, p. l.W. 



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