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Isthmus long slender frenum. Shoulder girdle inside gill-opening 

 with notch below. 



Scales firmly adherent, in even longitudinal rows, narrowly im- 

 bricated, and low sheath along dorsal base. Ventrals with pointed 

 axillary jflap at least two-fifths fin length. Caudal base scaled. 

 Scales with 4 parallel vertical striae, also very numerous finer or less 

 distinct parallel striae. 



Dorsal inserted nearly midway between mandible tip and base of 

 last anal ray, fin 2^ to caudal base. Anal inserted well behind dorsal 

 or about midway between ventral origin and caudal base, fin low, 

 caudal (damaged) apparently emarginate. Pectoral (damaged) 

 reaches at least three- fifths to ventral. Ventral inserted little be- 

 hind dorsal origin and not quite reaching halfway to anal. Vent 

 close in front of anal. 



Color in alcohol : Back dark bluish-brown, sides and below silvery 

 white with brassy tinge. Iris pale or brownish-yellow. Fins pale 

 brownish, tip of dorsal dusky. 



Length 73 mm. (caudal tips damaged). 



Type.— C2it. No. 82799. U.S.N.M., Fiji Island, Wilkes Exploring 

 Expedition. Another example, paratype, with same data, showing: 

 Head 3^ ; depth 3f ; D. iv, 13, 1 ; A. ii, 16 ; scales 39 in lateral series 

 to caudal base and 4 more on latter; snout 3^ in head from upper jaw 

 tip; eye 3^; maxillary 2^; interorbital 4^; serrae 17-|-13. Length 64 

 mm. (caudal damaged). 



The above examples differ from the other species of the genus in 

 Polynesia in the dark tip to the dorsal. 



(Named for the Fiji Islands.) 



ANCHOVIELLA MAUII, new species. 



Head 3; depth (at head) 5; D. iii, 12; A. iii, 11? ; P. i, 13; V. i, 6; 

 scales (impressions estimated) about 40 to caudal base; about 20 

 predorsal scales. Snout 4f in head ; eye 4 ; maxillary 1^ ; interorbital 

 6^ ; least depth of caudal peduncle 3| ; head width 3|. 



Body moderately long, well compressed, apparently deepest at 

 gill opening, ventral edge rounded convexly and without scutes. 

 Caudal peduncle compressed, least depth 1^ its length. 



Head long, well compressed, pointed, flattened sides but slightly 

 converging below snout conic, width 1^ its length and lower profile 

 slightly concave. Eye large, hind pupil edge about first third in head. 

 Adipose eyelid covers eye. Mouth large. Mandible extends forward 

 little before front eye edge, though not quite to nostril, rami low. 

 Maxillary long, straight, extends back little beyond mandibular 

 articulation or preopercle ridge, though not quite to gill-opening. 

 Maxillary and upper jaw edges in front with row of minute close- 

 set simple teeth. Row along mandibular edge similar, except larger 

 on lateral extent. Several very minute teeth as short row on front 



