18 Fishes of the South Pacific. 
maining, so the identification is quite problematic. It is allied to 
T. longtrostris Kaup. 
Interorbital space equal to eye, 5 in snout; a distinct ridge 
across opercle, with fine radiating ridges; occiput and neck with 
a median ridge; body deeper than broad. 
This is probably a new species, but with the mutilated speci- 
men before me the description could not be complete. 
Famity SPHYRANIDA. 
Sphyrena obtusata Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Six specimens, Nos. g11-914, 1084 and 1064 B. M., from Fate, 
New Hebrides. 
Sphyrzeena goodingi‘ Seale, new species. 
Dépth 7.89; head 2 im length; eye 6.20; 7D: Vv, 1G; eeme, 
scales 127. 
Body elongate, rounded; head conical, the sharp point of the 
cone formed by the lower jaw; snout 2.30; lower jaw 1.60 in head; 
maxillary not quite reaching to anterior line with eye; teeth of 
the upper jaw in a single row; teeth of the lower jaw in a single 
row of 15 on each side; a pair of enlarged canine-like teeth in 
front; a row of large shark-like teeth on palatines; gill rakers 
short and tooth-like; opercles with the margin rounded, and end- 
ing in an oblique flap, there is an inconspicuous flat spine on the 
hardened portion; the upper fourth only is scaled; preopercle en- 
tirely scaled, the scales extending to below the eye onto the orbi- 
tals and on the base of the lower mandible; spinous dorsal fin, and 
the ventrals, are of equal length, 3.75 in head; origin of dorsal is 
slightly posterior to base of ventrals, the longest dorsal spine 3.80 
in head; the distance between the soft and spinous dorsal 3.75 in 
length; last ray of dorsal extending as a short filament equal in 
length to width of eye; base of soft dorsal equal in length to base 
of anal, the last ray of anal is slightly prolonged; pectorals reach- 
ing to a line with base of dorsal, its length 3 in head; caudal deeply 
and evenly forked. 
Color uniformly silvery with a slight wash of bluish on the 
dorsal surface. 
One specimen from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Ids. Length 21 in. 
Non ein (CB e329) i 
Famiry POLYNEMIDA. 
Polydactylus piebeius Broussonnet. 
Depth 3.90; head 3.25; eye 4, entirely covered with adipose 
membrane; D. vil, 13; A. II, 12; five pectoral appendages; scales 
60; interorbital 4. 
4Named for Mr. Vie Gooding of Tahiti, whose kind assistance and interest in my work 
was greatly appreciated. 
