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To this end Professor A. H. Banner (1954) of the University of Hawaii 

 compiled a concise and very careful supplement enumerating addi- 

 tional records of known species and noting the foundation of new ones. 

 Doubts concerning the systematics of any species arising as a result 

 of these records were indicated, but their resolution was left until 

 actual reexamination of the material could be carried out. 



In the 1942 Dana Report, Fage established certain new criteria 

 whereby species of the genus Lophogaster could be distinguished, and 

 instituted a number of new species based on these specific characters. 

 Tattersall had also founded new species in this genus but in his descrip- 

 tions and figures had not mentioned the characters that Fage regarded 

 as of specific significance. 



As both workers dealt in some cases with material from the same 

 localities, it seemed probable that some of the new species were 

 synonymous. The question could only be answered by a reexamina- 

 tion of the material in the collections with which Tattersall had 

 worked. This reexamination I was recently privileged to make at 

 the U.S. National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, in Wash- 

 ington, D.C. I wish to express my very great gratitude to Dr. 

 Waldo L. Schmitt and to Dr. Fenner A. Chace, Jr., and his staff in 

 the Division of Marine Invertebrates for all the help and kindness 

 that they have given me during the course of this work and for all the 

 facilities accorded me during my stay in Washington. 



By the great kindness of Dr. Elisabeth Deichmann, of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., I have been allowed to 

 examine paratypes of Lophogaster longirostris Faxon and have illus- 

 trated from them those characters set forward as specific by Fage. 

 The illustrations supplement the original description of this species. 



I am greatly indebted to Mr. Vernon E. Brock, Pacific Oceanic 

 Fishery Investigations, for very kindly sending me material from 

 Hawaiian waters for comparison with specimens in the collections of 

 the U.S. National Museum. As a result, I am able to comment on 

 Fage's species Lophogaster schmidti and to record it from the tropical 

 central Pacific. 



It has not been possible to obtain the types of Lophogaster inter- 

 medins Hansen, but I have examined specimens from the Mergui 

 Archipelago, eastern Indian Ocean, which were referred to intermedins 

 by Tattersall (1922), and have been able to compare them with the 

 specimen from Albatross station 4944, referred doubtfully to this 

 species by Tattersall (1951, p. 20). 



