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tined because of influenza at the Naval Station, until we left on July 

 3 for Hull Island. On July 7 I landed on Hull Island through a 

 difficult surf and collected specimens until July 18, when I was again 

 back on the Bushnell. Without the use of a small boat no collecting 

 could be done in the lagoon of this island. Hull Island is about 7 

 miles long, and the north side is broken by several channels, from four 

 of which I collected fishes. The reef, like that around most of the 

 atolls, except Rose, is almost devoid of tide pools, because it is nearly 

 flat, and much of it is smooth as a pavement. In other places it is 

 well drained by channels that penetrate as far as a hundred feet. 



Between July 19 and 20 we were in the vicinity of Canton and 

 Enderbury Islands where a few fishes were taken on hook and line 

 and presented to me by Lt. Tom Shriver. On the 21st we started 

 for Pearl Harbor, arriving there the 27th. Until August 4 I spent 

 most of my time at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, when I left for 

 Washington, D. C., arriving there on August 18. 



ICHTHYOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE EXPEDITION 



Although nearly five months were spent away from the National 

 Museum, only 65 days were actually available for collecting specimens ; 

 the remainder was used in getting from place to place and in pre- 

 serving the specimens, which numbered 14,022 fishes and about 3,000 

 other specimens, consisting of amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, 

 various kinds of invertebrates, and rocks. 



Among the fishes, 30 new species and subspecies and 6 new genera 

 arc herein described, distributed among 18 families, as follows : 



DUSSUMIERIDAE : 



Spratelloides atrofasciatns, new species. 



QPHICHTHYIDAE : 



Machaerenchelys plwenicBcnsis, new species. 

 Brachysomophis sauropsis, new species. 



ECHIDNIDAE : 



Echidna leiicotaevia, new species. 

 Uropterygius cantonensis, new species. 

 Uropterygius reidi, new species. 



ECHEWDAJE : 



Kaupichthys diodontus, new genus and species. 

 Muraenichthys foivleri, new species. 

 S'ynqnatiiidae : 



Ichthyocampiis diacanthus, new species. 



KtJHLIDAE : 



Kuhlia salelea, new species. 

 KuMia petiti, new species. 

 Serkanidae : 



Epincphelna tirodclop.t, new species. 



PSEUDOCHKOMIDAE : 



Aporops hilirifari'^, new genus and species. 

 Pscndochromis jamesi, new species. 

 Pseudoplesiops rosce, new species. 



