AUT. 33. NOTES ON FISHES OF ItAWAlI E. K. JORDAN 11 



Family EXOCOETIDAE 



Genus CYPSELURUS Swainson 



CYPSELURUS SPILOPTERUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Recorded by Fowler from Honolulu. 



Notwithstanding their abundance, swarming everywhere in the 

 open seas about Honolulu, no flying fishes were brought into the mar- 

 ket during my stay. Fishermen said that it did not pay to go after 

 them. 



Family CENTRISCIDAE 

 Genus AEOLISCUS Jordan and Starks 

 AEOLISCUS STRIGATUS (Gunther). 



Recorded as Centnscus strigatus by Fowler. 



Family SYNGNATHIDAE 

 Genus CORYTHOICHTHYS Kaup 



CORYTHOICHTHYS MATAAFAE Jordan and Scale. 



Of this Samoan species, two specimens were obtained by FoAvler 

 from Waikiki Beach. 



Family GADIDAE 



Genus PHYSICULUS Kaup 



PHYSICULUS GRINNELLI Jordan and Jordan. 



This is probably the species recorded as Physiculus kmipi Poey by 

 Fowler. That species from Cuba has the dorsal rays 10-60, the anal 

 60 (D. 73 in grinnelli; A. 65). The species of this genus, scantily 

 distributed at moderate depths through the warmer parts of both 

 oceans — dalwlgki^ haupi^ japo7iicus, and grinnelli — are extremely 

 similar one to another. Others in deeper waters are better defined, 

 fulvus having much larger scales, nemntopus produced ventrals and 

 rastrelliger numerous (T-flS) gill rakers, these structures being 

 few, short and small in all the others. 



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Family SCOMBRIDAE 

 Genus NESOGRAMMUS Evermann and Seale 



NESOGRAMMUS THOMPSONI Fowler. 



This interesting fish, represented by a fine cast in the Bishop Mu- 

 seum, is df-'scribed by Fowler.^ 



8 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 64, p. 37G. 



