ART. 19. NEW SPECIES OF FISHES — FOWLER AND BEAN. 9 



UROPTERYGIUS FIJIENSIS. new ipeciei. 



Head lOf; depth 22; snout 7 in head; gape 3; interorbital 9^; 

 mandible 2^. Body moderately compressed. Tail slightly less than 

 combined head and trunk. Head small, well compressed, width 4 

 in its length. Snout conic, width 1^ its length. Eye moderate, 

 closer to lip than interorbital. If in snout. Gape moderate, hind 

 pupil edge about midway in its length, completely closes. Lower 

 jaw trifle shorter than upper. Lips rather firm, somewhat fleshy. 

 Teeth conic, above biserial and lower biserial behind; upper inner 

 row longer than outer, depressible; about 8 large caninelike de- 

 pressible teeth in front of upper jaw; row of firm subequal lower 

 teeth and in front inside 5 enlarged depressed teeth; vomer with 

 single row of firm conic teeth. Front nostril short tube each side of 

 snout tip; hind nostril simple pore, well elevated in interorbital 

 over front pupils edge. Interorbital convex. Gill-opening about 

 long as eye. No fins. End of tail compressed to narrow and rather 

 thin edge which extends short space forward above and below. 



Color in alcohol: Deep or dark burnt umber, marked everywhere 

 with numerous large blackish blotches, all of which are largely uni- 

 form dark. On pharnyx blackish blotches merged more or less to 

 form elongate streaks. Blotches of dark color on head small. Length 

 582 mm. 



Type.— Csit No. 82T74, U.S.N.M., Fiji. Wilkes Exploring Expe- 

 dition. Only the type known. The species differs from the preceding 

 in the color pattern, different physiognomy of the head, and uniform 

 color of the dark blotches. According to the original color sketch 

 obtained at Lebukea, Fiji, in May, 1840. 



(For the Fiji Islands.) 



HYPORHAMPHUS SALVATORIS, new species. 



Head, 4f depth, 7f ; D. ii, 14; A. ii, 14; P. i, 10; V. i, 6; scales 63 

 in lateral series from shoulder to median caudal base and 6 more 

 on latter; 40 predorsal scales to head; 7 scales above lateral line to 

 dorsal origin, 1 scale below to anal origin; snout 2| in head from 

 upper jaw tip; eye, 4; maxillary, 3|; interorbital, 3^; combined post- 

 ocular region and eye, 2^ in beak. Body well compressed, deepest 

 about midway in predorsal. Caudal peduncle well compressed, about 

 long as deep or least depth 4^ in head. Head well compressed, flat- 

 tened sides moderately approximated below, width about 3 in its 

 length. Snout depressed, triangular as seen from above with length 

 four-fifths its width. Eye large, rounded, close to upper profile 

 and hind pupil edge about midway in head length. Maxillary 

 largely concealed, vertical, apparently reaching front nostril. Teeth 

 fine, simple, in narrow bands in jaws, lower much narrower; no 

 vomerine teeth. Tongue depressed, pointed, free. Preorbital nearly 



