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BTTLLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FI8HEKIES. 



69. Auchovia evermanni . 



Samoa. 



llfud 4 in leiigtli; depth 4. .51); uye [i.lo in liead; snout 1.75; dorsal i, l.i; anal i, 30; scales 34; 

 interorbital space equal to eye; maxillary equal to depth of fish, 4.50 in length. 



Body elongate, compressed; scales large and deciduous; belly trenchant, the scales of middle row- 

 each ending in a sharp spine; snout projecting, conical; origin of dorsal midway between tip of snout 

 and base of caudal, its longest ray equal to distance from middle of eye to posterior margin of opercle; 

 pectoral inserted low and extending to base of ventrals, the length 1.50 in head; ventraLs 2 in head, 

 their origin nearer pectoral than base of anal; origin of anal posterior to base of dorsal, its length equal 

 to head; caudal deeply forked, the lobes equal to length of head; numerous small teeth on the 

 pterygoids, palatines, vomer and jaws; maxillary extending to posterior angle of preopercle, and 

 bearing a single row of fine teeth; gillrakers scarcely equal to eye, 23 on the lower limb. ' 



Color in spirits, silvery, darker above, with a bluish wash ; a golden wash on cheek ; a dusky blotch 

 on upper margin of orbit; fins all yellowish white, the caudal with an indistinct tip of dusky on end 

 of lobes. In life one specimen had an orange blotch behind gill-opening above, dorsal and caudal 

 chiefly light orange-brown, no silvery lateral band. 



Five specimens, from Apia; type no. 51719, U. S. National Museum, 5 inches long. In all these 

 specimens the depth is 4.66 to 4.75 in the length, instead of 4 times, as stated liy Bleeker and ( nintlicr 

 of Anchovia haiama, the nearest known species. 



Thii 



specie 



named for Dr. Barton Warren Evermann. 



70. Anchovia scratchleyi (Ramsay & Ogilby). New Guinea. 



Eiujraulis scratchleyi Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1886, l.s, Sti 



71. Anchovia enchrasicoloides (Bleeker). New Guinea (Macleay 



land River i Ne 



East Inilies. 



Family AULOIMD.Ji. 

 CHLOEOFHTHALMUS Bonaparte. 



72. Chlorophthalmus proridens Gilbert & Cramer. Dirp waters of Hawaii. 



Family SYNODONTJD.i. 

 SYNODUS Bloch & Schneider. 



73. Synodus varius Lacepede. Hawaii; Samoa; New (iuinea; Fiji; Mangareva (Seale) : 

 .\ lew specimens of this widely diffused specie.* were taken at Samoa, on the shore with 



74. Synodus kaianus Gimther. I leep seas of Hawaii; .\rafura Sea. 



TRACHIN0CEPHALT7S Gill. 



75. Trachinocephalus myops For.^ter. Hawaii; warm seas. 



