Fishes of the South Pacific. 5 
Faminy ALBULIDA. 
Albula vulpes (Linnzus). 
Wepris5- head. 3.00 (without fap); eye.4:75; D. 17; A. 9; 
scales 79 in lateral line ; interorbital space 3.95. 
Body elongate, slightly compressed, scaled, the lateral line 
complete ; a row of modified scales down the back ; elongate axil- 
lary scales; head naked; snout conical, overlapping the small in- 
ferior mouth; maxillary short, forming lateral margin of upper 
jaw and reaching to below the eye; jaws, vomer and palatins with 
bands of villiform teeth; broad patches of coarse blunt pavement 
teeth on base of tongue and sphenoidal bones; eye covered with 
adipose membrane. 
Color in spirits, silvery with about 10 narrow dusky longitudi- 
nal lines above the lateral line and several less distinct ones below; 
fins yellowish white, the caudal margined with dusky. Four 
specimens, from Tahiti, Nos. 716, 717, 1489 and 1490 B. M. 
Two young specimens were taken at Fateé, New Hebrides, 
INOwS33 B.. M. 
Famity CLUPEIDA. 
Sardinella kunzei (Bleeker). 
Two specimens, Nos. 866 and 867 B.M., from Fate, New 
Hebrides. 
Three specimens, Nos. 1092, 1093 and 1214 B. M., from Short- 
land Id., Solomons. 
Stolephorus delicatulus (Gunther). 
One specimen, No. 1199 B. M., from Shortland Id., Solomons, 
Famity SYNODONTID#. 
Synodus varius (Quoy & Gaimard). 
One specimen, No. 829 B.M., from Mangareva, Gambier Ids. 
Trachinocephalus myops ( Forster). 
Two specimens, Nos. 1094 and 1153 B. M., trom Shortland 
Id., Solomons. 
One specimen, No. 1980 B. M., from Rarotonga, Cook Ids. 
Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard). 
One specimen, No. 1298 B. M., Shortland Id., Solomons. 
Famity ANGUILLIDA. 
Anguilla megastoma Kaup. 
Depth 2.10 in head; head 2.80 in distance from snout to vent; 
length of head 1.75 in distance from gill openings to origin of dor- 
sal; eye 2.10 in interorbital; snout from opening of posterior nostril 
