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68-70 in lateral line. Mouth oblique. Setiform teeth on jaws, 

 vomer and palatines. Snout blunt. Branchiostegals 7. Fins : Anal 

 long, its base twice into length of fish. It is placed at an angle of 

 about 40° to the axis. The rays are short, the longest being equal 

 to the diameter of eye. The base of dorsal is 1.66 into head, its 

 longest ray being about equal to head. Caudal emarginate. Pec- 

 torals about equal to length of head. Color in spirits: Silvery, 

 with a wash of reddish, each scale having a silvery margin with a 

 sub-marginal brownish red area of about equal extent; darker 

 above. Axis and base of pe(5torals black, a darker area along base 

 of anal. Dorsal spines and tip of anterior dorsal rays black. Caudal 

 dusky on edges, lighter in centre. Anal, pectorals and ventrals yel- 

 lowish white. A more or less distinct splotch of gold just posterior 

 of eye on opercle. Iris yellow. Five specimens. I^ength 3-7 inches. 

 Guam, July 14, 1900. Hab. Western Pacific, Marianas. 



Family KUHI^IID^. 



Genus KUHI^IA Giij.. 



91-93. Kuhlia rupestris (Lacep.). 



Head 3; depth 2.66; eye 4; maxillary 2.33, no supplemental 

 bone; mandible 1.66; interorbital 3.50; D. x 11; A. iii 10; V. i 5; 

 P. 13. Scales large, 5-44-9, lateral line complete. Body oblong, 

 slightly compressed. Mouth large, protracftile . Teeth: Bands of 

 villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, entopterygoid and ecto- 

 pter3'goid bones. Tongue smooth. Gill-rakers about 16, rather 

 short on lower limb. Branchiostegals 6. Pseudobranchige well 

 developed. Opercle with two spines. Preorbital and preopercle 

 finely denticulate, gill membranes separate. Fins: The caudal is 

 emarginate, the lobes rounded. Fifth dorsal spine is 2.50 into head; 

 tenth dorsal spine is much longer than ninth, its length 3 into head. 

 Ventrals and pe(5lorals of about equal length. Anal longer than its 

 distance from caudal. Color in spirits: Dark silvery, bluish above, 

 most of the scales with a blackish spot at tip or base. Caudal, anal 

 and dorsal dusky, with a wide whitish space at tip. Ventrals white. 

 Pecftorals whitish, upper ray black. Three fine specimens, length 

 6-9 inches, were presented to the Museum by Lieutenant-Governor 

 W. E. Safford, U. S. N. These w^ere taken in fresh water at the 

 head of the Agaila river, Guam, 1900. This is a valued food fish. 

 Hab. Fresh w^ater streams and lakes of Polynesia, Marianas. 



Family CHBII/ODIPTBRID^.— Cardinal-fishes. 



Genus APOGON Lacepede. 



94. Apogon fasciatus Quoy & Gaim. lyansi. 



Head 2.86; depth 3; eye 2.50; snout 50 into eye; interorbital 

 about equal to snout ; maxillary reaching beyond pupil 1.23 into 



