NOTES ON THE FISHES OF HAWAII, WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF SIX NEW SPECIES 



By Eric Knight Jordan 



Of Stanford University, California 



The present writer spent the month of August, 1924, at Honolulu, 

 in company with his father, David Starr Jordan, in attendance at 

 the Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Conference. All his available 

 time was spent in collection and study at the fish markets. Of the 

 large collections obtained, the first series was sent to Cornell Uni- 

 versity, the second to the University of Minnesota, and smaller 

 series to Chicago University, to the Imperial University of Tokyo, 

 and to Brigham Young University. The types of new species were 

 placed in the United States National Museum, which institution 

 publishes the present notes. The plates are the work of the late 

 William S. Atkinson, artist in zoology and botany, at Stanford 

 I'niversity. 



The writer is indebted to his father for many suggestions, es- 

 pecially for aid in the determination of species. Prof. Frederick G. 

 Krauss, of the University of Hawaii, has given him important assist- 

 ance in connection with this work, and the Matson Navigation Com- 

 pany has shown the special courtesy of transporting the collections 

 without charge to San Francisco. 



In this paper I have included references to all species added to 

 the Hawaiian fauna since the publication in 1922 of Jordan and 

 Jordan's List of the Fishes of Hawaii.'^ The most important of 

 these additions are recorded in Henry W. Fowler's New or Little 

 Known Hawaiian Fishes." References to the additional species se- 

 <;ured by Mr. Fowler on his visit to Honolulu in the autumn of 1922, 

 are made in the present paper. In the time at my disposal, I was 

 able to examine or secure about 220 species, some fishes being too 

 large for convenient preservation. Many of the coral reef fishes 



' Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, vol. 10, No. 1, Dec, 1922. 



- Occasional Papers of tlie Bernice Pauahi Bisliop Museum, vol. 8, No. 7, 1923. 



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