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could not be obtained in the time I could spare, and I have reason 

 to believe that overfishing, and, more especially, the use of dyna- 

 mite, not yet effectually prohibited, has reduced the number of 

 shore fishes to less than one-fourth the abundance noted by Jordan 

 and Evermann in 1901.^ 



To this last work the present paper, and the previous one of 

 Jordan and Jordan, containing the complete list up to 1922, are 

 supplementary. 



In this paper the following genera and species are described as 

 new: 



Genera: Leihala^ Opua. 



Species : L&pidapJois atrorubens^ Scaridea farraiidi^ Scarus kraussi, 

 Scarus galena^ Opua nephodes, Cantherines verecundus. 



Family EULAMIIDAE 

 Genus EULAMIA Gill 



EDLAMIA MTJNSING (Bleeker). 



Mr. Fowler records this East Indian shark from Hononlulu. 

 Family ECHINORHINIDAE 

 Genus ECHINORHINUS Blainville 



ECHINORHINUS BRUCUS (Bonnaterre). 



Recorded by Fowler from Honolulu, 



Family ISISTIIDAE 

 Genus ISISTIUS Gill 



ISISTIUS. species. 



Represented by a cast in the Bishop Museum. It is a very small 

 shark with the two dorsals set far back, and very small, about the 

 size of the ventrals which are opposite the interspace; no anal fin. 



Family MOBULIDAE 

 Genus MANTA Bancroft 



MANTA BIROSTRIS (Walbanm). 



Recorded from Honolulu by Fowler. 



Family DUSSUMIERIIDAE 

 Genus SPRATELLOIDES Bleeker 



SPRATELLOmES DELICATULUS (Bennett). 



Recorded by Fowler from Honolulu as Stolephorus delicatulus, 

 but the name StolepJwnis is now regarded as properly assigned to a 



*The Aquatic Resourws of the Hawaiian Islands, Bull. U. S. Fish Commission for 190;?. 

 (Issued 1905.) 



