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Family XIPHIID.-E. 



407. Xiphias gladius Linn:rii«. Hawaii; warm sca^. 



Family CARAXr,lI).4-:. 

 SCOMBEEOIDES Lacepede. 



408. Scomberoides sanctipetri (Cuvier & Valencieniirs i. Lui. Hawaii; Samoa; Kingsmill I.; 



Tahiti; Johnston I. 

 This widely diffused species is rather common al>out Samoa and Hawaii. A few specimens were 

 taken in the channels of Apia. 



409. Scomberoides tolooparah. (Riippell). Hawaii; Xew Ireland: Vanicolo; New Guinea ( Mac- 



leay): Kast Indie.^:. 



410. Scomberoides lysan (Forskali. Xew (Jninea (Macleay). 



SERIOLA Cuvier. 



411. Seriola purpurescens Schlcgtl. Hawaii; .Japan. 



412. Seriola sparna .lenkins. Ihiwaii. 



NAUCRATES Rafiuesque. 



413. Naucrates ductor (Linn;ens). Hawaii; Japan; warm seas. 



ELAGATIS Bennett. 



414. Elagatis bipinnulatus Quoy & Gaimard. Hawaii; Hes des Papons; New Britain (Peters); 



Solomon Is. (Seale); East Indies; West Indies. 



MEGALASPIS" Bleeker. 



415. Megalaspis cordyla lLinn:i-ns). Alim!,,. Samna; Fast Indies. 

 Common in the open channels in the reef. 



DECAPTERUS Bleeker. 



416. Decapterus pinnulatus (ICydoux & Souleyeti. Hawaii; Raiatea; Tahiti; Bonin Is.; Pau- 



motu Is. 

 ( DeciiplentA cunitnuide^ Jeiikin,.^. j 

 This species is different from Decapterus nmro-udxi of Jajian, and apparently also distinct from 

 Decapterus sanctsehelenx of the Atlantic. 



417. Decapterus lundini Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 3.7.5 in length; depth 3.20; eye -1 in head, 1.20 in snout; dorsal vr-i, 21-1; anal ir, 21-1; 

 scales small, 9.5 in lateral line, of which 4.5 are modified with ]ilates; interorbital, 4 in head; maxillary, 

 3, reaching to below the anterior margin of eye, all but its posterior third hidden under the preorbital. 



Body elongate, compressed, fusiform; scales covering entire body and head; adipose eyelid well 

 developed, covering entire eye except width of pupil; small teeth in single series on jaws and 

 palatines, slightly enlarged teeth on vomer; very niinute teeth on tongue; gillrakers shorter than 

 width of eye, 24 on lower limb; preopercle entire, opercle with small rounded nick on up])er margin; 

 base of dorsal slightly greater than anal, its longest ray 1.8.5 in head; lir.^t ray of anal 2 in head; 



aThe name Megalaspis Blei-ker dates from 1S51. At about the .same time Angelln gave the same name to a genus of 

 Trilobites. As to this Dr. Stejueger observes (in lit. Dec. 16, 1904): "Two straws point to the Trilobite's being the 

 younger name. Bleeker's Meiialaspis is mentioned in the ' Leistungen ' for 1.S.51. -ingelin's name is not mentioned in the 

 ■Leistungen' untill.S52-3." There is also doubt for other reasons whether .\ngelin's paper appeared before 1852. We there- 

 fore retain Meffataspis for the genus of fishes. 



