Fishes of the South Pacific. 



maining, so the identification is quite problematic. It is allied to 

 '/'. longirostris Kaup. 



[nterorbital 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 1>l- complete. 



Family Sl'll YR.HXI I >.K 

 Sphyrsena obtusata Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Six specimens, Xos. 911-914, 10N4 and 1064 B. M., from bate, 

 New Hebrides. 



Sphyraena goodingi 4 Seale, new species. 



Depth 7.89; head 3 in length; eye 6.20; D. v, 10: A. 10; 



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. 

 Xo. 21 12 ( Fig. 4) B. M. 



Family POLYNEMID^E. 

 Polydactylus plebeius Broussonnet. 



Depth 3.90; head 3.25; eye 4, entirely covered with adipose 

 membrane: D. vm, 13; A. 11, 12; five pectoral appendages: scales 

 60; interorbital 4. 



* Named for Mr. Vie Gooding of Tahiti, whose kind assistance and interest in my work 

 was greatly appreciated. 



