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length of the head 4^ times in the same. Snout shorter than the eye. 

 Interorbital space flat, and its width equals the diameter of the eye; 

 the latter is one-third of the length of the head. Origins of the dorsal 

 and anal fins opposite to each other ; dorsal high and pointed ; the an- 

 terior rays, when laid backward, reach to the caudal fin. Anal very low. 

 Lower caudal lobe longer than the head. Length of the pectoral is one- 

 half of the total length, reaching nearly to the middle of the dorsal fin. 

 Ventrals extend to the anal, and are inserted midway between the snout 

 and the root of the caudal fin. The upper part of the dorsal is black j 

 pectorals blackish, anals and ventrals whitish. 



Total lengths, 6.00, 6.50 inches. 



Locality : Hawaiian Islands. 



SCOPELID.^. 



SAURIDA NEBULOSA, Ctiv. & Val. [No. 15392J. 



Saurida nehidosa, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., xxii, 1849, 504, pi. 649.— Bleeker, 

 Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., iii, 1852, 292.— Gunther, Cat. Fish., v, 1864, 399.— liLUN- 

 ziNGER, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges., xxi, 1871, Fische d. Roth. Mcer, 591. 



D. 11 . A. 9-10. L. lat. 52. 



In the older specimens the spots are more or less aggregated, those 

 on the sides of the body forming transverse bands extending to below 

 the lateral line. 



Locality : Honolulu, Oahu. 



ALBULID^. 



ALBULA CONORHYNCHUS, Bl Schn. [No. 18004. J 



Argentina glossodonta, Forsk., Descr. Anim., 1775, 68. 



Albula conorhynchns, Bloch, Syst. Ichth., ed. Schn., 1801, 432. — Cuv. & Val., Hist. 



Nat. des Poiss., xix, 1846, 3.56.— Gunther, Cat. Fish., vii, 1868, 468. 

 Buiirinus glossodontus, Ruppell, N. W. Fische, 1837, 80, pi. 20, f. 3. — Schleg., Faun. 



Japon. Poiss., 1850, 242, pi. 109, f. 1. 

 Esox argenteus, Forster, Descr. Anim., ed. Light., 1844, 196. 

 Albula bananus, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., xix, 1846, 345. — Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., xxiv, 



1852, Chiroc, 11. 

 Albula glossodonta, Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Gesel., xxi, 1871, Fische d. Roth. Meer, 



602. 



Locality : Honolulu, Oahu. 



