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a broad band of elongate, membranaceous scales along middle line of back; acces- 

 sory ventral scale large. 



Color dusky olive, silvery below; a series of dark stripes extending lengthwise 

 of the body, these mainly between the. rows of scales, those below the lateral line 

 fainter; dark lines above lateral line; below the lateral line the stripes composed 

 of stipplings of black dots; tip of snout black in color, forming a broken ring; a 

 little black around nostrils; some faint dark blotches on head; all the fins finely 

 dotted; dorsal and caudal narrowly rimmed with black. 



Very common about Honolulu and Hilo, mostly inside the reefs. 



The genus Albula is widely distributed in most warm seas, only the Mediter- 

 ranean being excepted. Valenciennes recognizes several distinct species, but all 

 recent writers have regarded all the forms as belonging to one species, no tangible 

 differences in form, scales, or fins being evident. However, specimens from both 

 coasts of America are brilliantly silvery without dark spots, and all the nominal 

 species from the Red Sea, the East Indies, and the South Seas are also described 

 as bright silvery. On the contrary all Hawaiian examples are dusky, with strong 

 stripes along the sides. 



Family XIV. CHANID.E. 



Chanos Lacepede. 



25. Chanos chanos (Forskal). Aiva-awa, Aivakalamoku, Puawa. (J. &E.,p. 56.) 

 Valenciennes has indicated this common Hawaiian species under the name 



Chanos cyprinella, but we know of no characters to separate it from C. chanos of 

 the Red Sea. 



Family XV. DUSSUMIERIID.E (Round Herrings). 



Etrumeus Bleeker. 



26. Etrumeus micropus (Temminck and Schlegel). Makiawa. (J. & E., p. 58.) 



We have been unable to separate this species, which is not very common in 

 Hawaii, from its fellow in Japan. The Californian species, Etrumeus othonops 

 .(R. S. Eigenmann), taken but once, and referred to a different genus, Perkinsia, 

 may be different. It is a singular fact that none of the true herrings, Clupeidce, 

 occur about Hawaii. 



