DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF FISH (APOGON 

 EVERMANNI) FROM THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, WITH 

 NOTES ON OTHER SPECIES. 



By David Starr Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder, 



Of Stanford Vniveri<ity. 



A small collection of fishes from the market of Honolulu, lately 

 received by the United States Bureau of Fisheries from Mr. E. L. 

 Berndt, contains several specimens of interest, one species being new 

 to science. The present paper contains the description of this species, 

 with notes on some of the others. 



APOGON EVERMANNI Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head exclusive of opercular flap, 2| in the length; depth, 3^; depth 

 of caudal peduncle, 2f in head; eye, 3^; snout, 3i; maxillary, 1|-; 

 interorbital space, 6i; D. VI-I, 9; A. II, S; pores in lateral line, 25. 



The head is conspicuousl}" large, snout pointed, mouth large, the 

 maxillar}' extending to a point midway between pupil and posterior 

 margin of orbit. The interorbital space is concave, viewed either 

 from the side or from before, its width equal to that of the posterior 

 edge of maxillary. Edge of suborbital and lower edge of preopercle 

 with large, thin, membranous flaps; anterior edge of preopercle 

 smooth; upper part of posterior edge finely serrated. Branchioste- 

 gals, 7. Teeth villiform, in broad bands on the jaws, a V-shaped patch 

 on the vomer, and in narrow bands on the palatines. Gillrakers, 

 5+16, the length of the longest contained 3 times in longitudinal 

 diameter of e3'e. Pseudobranchia? present. 



Head naked, except on interopercle, preopercle, and upper part of 

 opercle, where there are a few large smooth scales. Scales of body 

 ctenoid, the number in a longitudinal series immediately above the 

 lateral line 54:, between lateral line and spinous dorsal 3, between lat- 

 eral line and anal 15. Lateral line complete, its curve closely follow- 

 ing that of the dorsal contour of body; located on middle of caudal 

 peduncle posteriori}'. 



Third and fourth dorsal spines longest, 2| in head; fii'st and sixth 

 of equal length, half as long as the third. A slight space between 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXVIll— No. 1386. 



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