237 



473. Monodactylus argenteus (Linnn 



■ ). Totu. Samoa; New Guinea; Vanionlo; Fiji; Ivist In 



Nut., ed. .\, 175S, China; nfter Lagerstrom. Giinther, Cat, ir, 4S8, Mo 



(Icr SUdsee, 140. Samoa. Klunzinger, Fische Roth, lleeres. 794, Red Sea. 



:. Aniin., 58, 1775, Red Sea. 



, Hist. Nat Poiss., in, 131. 1802. 



icieniie-j, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 250, 1831,"Vanicolo; after Lacijpfede. 



Tliis species, i-onmion in the East Indies, was found rather abundant in the harbor of Ajiia in the 

 deeper water between the reefs. Eight specimens were taken. It is a valued foQd-fisli. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, silvery white with some dusky: a faint orl>ital l)ar. Younj; 

 with three curved bla^k cross bars on the head. 



(.,-, 



#5^ 



ATYPICHTHYS Gunther. 



474. At_y-pichthys strigatus (Gunther). Krromangd, New Ht 



Family IvLKTlD.i. 



KURTUS Bloch. 



475. Kurtus guUiveri Castelnan. New- (Guinea. 



(les; Palacky 



New GiiineaV 



Family .\POGON'ICHTHY!D.€. 



AMIA Gronow (17631. I .ly...,/„„ Lac'in:-.!.-, 1802.) Fo. 



476. Amia snyderi (Jordan & Evermann). Hawaii; Samoa; Tahiti; Paumotu Is.; Tubuai; Fate, 

 .'^hrirtland I., and Eaiatea (Seale). 

 Aifi.jim sntjdrri Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1903). 180, Honolulu. 

 Apugon /rnmlas Gunther, Fische der Stid.see, i, 19, taf. 19, tig. A, 1873, Hawaiian, Society, and Paumotu Is. 

 Stuindaeliner, Denljs. Ak. Wis. Wien, L.xx, 1900. 484, Honolulu. Not Apogon frenatim Valenciennes, Nouv. 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1832, .57. pi. 4. fig. 4, nor of Klunzinger. 



1 Under the- rules of nomenclature adopted by us the name Amia Gronow (1763) beeomes tenable for this ge 

 rity over Apoyon (1802) and over ,4mm Linnaeus (176G), for which genus Raflnesque's iia 





