42 MEMOIRS f)F THE CARNECIE MUSEUM. 



2G2. Kuhlia taeniura iCuvior and \'alenciennc.s). (J. &: E., p. 208.) 



Known from Johnston Island, south of Hawaii. ( 'ommon about lava-rocks 

 in the South Seas; strictly marine. Kuhlia (in/c Jordan and Bolhnan from the 

 (lalapagos is'jjrobabl}' the same. 



Family LXIX. APOGONID.E^ (Cardinal-Hshes). 

 Pristiapogon Klunzinger. 

 Both limbs of preopercle serrate; gill-rakers numerous; dorsal spines usually 

 seven; .scales large; caudal fin lunate. 



263. Pristiapogon menesemus (Jenkins). I'pdpdlu. (J. & E., p. 215.) 

 Common about the reefs. 



264. Pristiapogon snyderi (Jordan and Evermann). (J. & E., p. 214.) 

 Apoyoii firnatu.s Giinther, non Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 Common about Hawaii. 



265. Pristiapogon erythrinus Snyder. (J. it E.. p. 217.) 

 Rare about the reefs. 



Apogon Lacepede. 

 {Aniia Gronow, 1763, not binomial. Not Amia Linnseus, 1766.) 



§ OsTORHYNCHUs Laceped(\ 

 Like Apoyun. proper, but with seven or eight dorsal spines, instead of six; 

 preopercle serrate on the posterior limb only; lateral line complete; scales large 

 (about twenty-five); teeth on i)alatines; gill-rakers numerous; caudal fin more or 

 less lunate, not convex. 



266. Apogon maculiferus Garrett. (J. & E., p. 212.) 

 A handsome little hsh, common behind the reefs. 



Lepidamia Gill. 



267. Lepidamia evermanni (Jordan & Snyder). (J. ct E., p. 213.) 

 (Proc. U. S. N. M., XXVIII, 1905, p. 123.) 



One si)ecimen known from Honolulu. 



FoA Jordan and Evermann. 



268. Foa brachygramma (Jenkins). (J. & E., p. 211.) 

 Scarce, on the reefs. 



We may I'cfaiii tli(^ uanic A/HiguN milil the ijuestioii of the a;l()i)tioii of Croiiow's noii-binoinial 

 iiaiues, not validated Ijy .Scopoli in 1777, is linaily .settled. 



