DESCRIPTIONS OF EIGHTEEN NEW SPECIES OF 

 FISHES FROM THE WILKES EXPLORING EXPE- 

 DITION, PRESERVED IN THE UNITED STATES 

 NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



By Henry W. Fowler. 



Of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 



AND 



Barton A. Bean, 



Of the United States National Miiscum. 



In the preparation of a report upon the fishes collected by the 

 Wilkes Exploring Expedition around the world, the following are 

 described as new: 



Harengula peruana, new species, from Callao, Peru. 



Wilkesina, new subgenus. 



Flarengula fijiense, new species, from Fiji. 



Anchoviella mnuii, new species, from Maui. Hawaiian Islands. 



Anchoviella salvatoris, new species, from Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



Rasborella, new genus. 



Rashorella duhia, new species, from Indo-Malayan region ? 



Uropteri/gius fjiensis, new species, from Fiji. 



Hyporluwhphus salvatoris, new species, from Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



Si/rongylura tahitiensis. new species, from Tahiti. 



Strong ylura a'uloceps, new species, from Fiji or Samoa. 



Strongylura fijiense., new species, from Fiji. 



Lepthaemulon, new subgenus. 



Orthopristis rhahdoivs, new species, from Peru? 



Ctenosciaena., new subgenus. 



Scia^na duhia, new species (no locality). 



Paralarimus, new genus. 



Paralarimus patagoniciis, new species, from northern Patagonia. 



Lepidaplois trotteri, new species, from Pomotou Islands. 



Chromis cuprcus, new species, from " Singapoi-e, Maui, or Samoa." 



Gillellus australis, new species, from Valparaiso, Chile. 



Salarias mccuUochl new species, from Billinghausen Island. 



Xystreurys ribeiroi, new species, from Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



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