A LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED IN TAHITI BY 

 MR. HENRY R. BOWIE. 



B}^ David Stark rloKDAN and John Otterbein Snyder, 



Of Stanford Unirersify. 



In a brief visit to Tahiti in the months of Janiiary and February. 

 1U0,5, Mr. llenr}' P. Bowie, of San Mateo, California, made a small 

 collection of the shore tishes of Tahiti, 34 species being- taken. Most 

 of these belong* to forms characteristic of the South Seas, })ut among 

 the number are 8 very rare species, which are figured in the present 

 paper, the plates being the work of Mr. AVilliam Sackston Atkinson. 

 A series of duplicates has been sent to the United States National 

 Museum. 



I. MYRIPRISTIS INTERMEDIUS Gunther. 



Tips of soft dorsal and anal black, otherwise scarcely different from 

 JTy/v^^/vW/.v //n/rdj(//i, of which it may be a color variation. 



2. HOLOCENTRUS SAMMARA (Forskal). 

 3. HOLOCENTRUS BOWIEI Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head, 2.8 in length to base of caudal; depth, 2.H; depth of caudal 

 peduncle, 4 in head: eye, 4; snout, 3.2; interorbital space, S.o\ maxil- 

 lary. 3.1; D. XI, It); A. IV, 11; scales in lateral series, 45; between 

 lateral line and beginning of dorsal, 4; l)etween lateral line and origin 

 of anal, d. 



Dorsal contour of head nearly straight, interorbital space slightly 

 convex; snout pointed, lower jaw projecting; maxillary extending to 

 edge of orbit; eye of medium size, its upper edge even with dorsal 

 contour of head. Villifoi"m teeth on jaws, palatines, and vomer. 

 Pseudobranchite large; gillrakers long, pointed, 13 on lower limb of 

 arch ; the one above preceded by 3 or 4 small knobs. Lower margin 

 of preorbital concave, with large serrations; suborbital very narrow, 

 its edge tinely serrated; length of preopercular spine equal to vertical 

 diameter of eye, edge of preopercle denticulate; opercle striated, its 

 edge strongly denticulated, the angle with 2 flat spines; interopercle 

 striate, its edge with 4 small spines. Scales on cheek below eye, a 

 single row along anterior portion of preopercle, the three upper ones 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXIX— No. 1422. 

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