NOTE ON EMMYDRICHTHYS VULCANUS. 



BY DAVID STARR JORDAN. 



Professor J. T. Wallace, of California College, Oak- 

 land, has just furnished some additional information con- 

 cerning Emmydrichthys vulcanus, a species of fish 

 described in the early part of this volume (page 221), 

 and figured on plate xxvi. 



Professor Wallace writes : 



" I received a letter from Rev. J. W. Henry, who pre- 

 sented us the Emmydrichthys vulcanus, a few weeks ago, 

 in which he gave me some further description of this 

 rare fish. He says it is a rare fish, even in Tahiti. It 

 nearly always burrows in the sand, raising a little mound 

 over itself, and is thus the more dangerous to the native 

 fishermen, who usually go barefoot and are quite liable 

 to step on these dangerous hidden fish. He thinks it is 

 a rare case for any one to recover from the terrible wound 

 of these poisonous spines — generally dying from lock- 

 jaw. He corrects the name as we all read it on the jar, 

 saying the natives call it the " No-hu." In the published 

 account in No. VI, p. 223, you have probably noticed the 

 mistake, Hawaiian instead of the Society Islands." 



The type of Emmydrichthys vulcanus has been trans- 

 ferred to the museum of Stanford University. 



Pboc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 2d Skr., Vol. VI .January 14, 1897. 



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