THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 



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61. Harengula gibbosa (Bleekcr). Fiji ((nintluT) ; East Indies. 



62. Hareng-ula chrysotaenia (Bleeker). Tahiti; East Indies. 



63. Harengula vanicoris Jordan & Seale, new name. Vanicolo; Papua; East Indies. 



Al'iiit^'t tnflfmura Cuvicr it Valenciennes, op. cit., 441, 1H47, Vanicolo, New (Juinea, .\mboina; not C'lapea vielanura 



Family I)()ROSOMATII).+:. 



ANODONTOSTOMA Bleeker. 



L.arrk Is.: New llano 



uinea (Maeleay); East Indies. 



64. Anodontostoma breviceps I I'eter> 



( 7,.,(,.,>SH,W„. r/.v7,» I'.'Irrs, B.-rl. M..11. l.sTf,. S4.s. New Ha 



65. Anodontostoma chacunda ( Ilaniiltiui-I'.urlian 



KONOSIRUS Jordan & Snyder. 

 Last ray of dorsal lilanientous, as in Dunixouia. 



66. Konosirus thrissa (LinniPiis). New Guinea; East Indies: (,'liina. 



( ■lialiu^sus iiasiis | Bloch) Cuvicr & Valenciennes. 



Family FXC.K.MLID.J:. 

 ANCHOVIA Jordan & Evermann. 



67. Anchovia purpurea (Fowler) . Hawaii. 



68. Anchovia apiensis .Tordan & Seale, new Hi)eeies. Ncfii. Samoa. 



Head 4..50 in body (to base of caudal), depth 5, eye 3 20 in head, snout 4.50, mterorbital scarcely 

 equal to eye; dorsal i, 13; anal i, 20, scale-i 34, maxillary elongate, 5 in length of hea<l 



Fig. 3. — Anchovia aiticnsis Jordan & Seale, 



Body oblong, compressed; snout produced, conical; mandible 1.45 in head; maxillary extend- 

 ing to posterior angle of preopercle; minute, teeth in jayys, palatines, vomer, and pterygoids; gill- 

 rakers 1.20 in eye, 30 on lower limb; insertion of dorsal nearer base of caudal than tip of snout by 

 a distance equal to width of eye, its longest' ray 1.20 in head; length of pectoral less than depth of 

 body, 1.75 in head; insertion of ventrals oc|iialIy ilistant between origin of pectorals and origin of anal; 

 origin of anal under posterior third of .ln-iiI, its lu~r 1 ,|u;il 1.. ,lNi;iii(v from anterior margin of eye to 

 posterior margin of opercle; caudal fork.-,|, its l^li. s ciual to lin^^th of head; caudal peduncle rather 

 deep, 2.20 in head; scales deciduous, the middle nnv ol Ix-lly with spines. 



Color in spirits wliite, the scales with silvery reflections, more or less punctulate with minute black 

 dots on upper surface; cheeks and iris with gilt reflections; a dusky blotch on upper part of orbit, and 

 on nuchal region; slight dusky shading along base of dor.sal, anal, and upper base of caudal; caudal with 

 a slight wash of dusky; other tins white. Life colors white, pale olive on back; a silvery lateral band. 



Type no. 51720, U. S. National Museum, from Apia; length 3 inches. Of this small species, we 

 have about a dozen fine specimens from the shores inside the reef at Apia. 



