No. 8. — Some Fishes from Australasia. By SAMUEL GARMAN. 
THE notes and descriptions subjoined are based on specimens taken by 
Mr. Alexander Agassiz and members of his party on his recent expedi- 
tions to the Islands and Coral Reefs of Fiji and to the Great Barrier 
Reefs of Eastern Australia. Owing to the fact that no special attempts 
were made to collect fishes, the collection is not very large. Such indi- 
viduals as came in the way while collecting invertebrates were preserved. 
Among them are some that belong to species ranging throughout 
Polynesia, to China and the Red Sea; there are others that probably 
have been identified with species tolerably well known on account of 
close affinities, but which, because of differences lost sight of under 
former arrangement, are now given descriptions and names, and still 
others that have escaped notice hitherto. Only species inhabiting the 
shoals around the islands or the reefs or the upper waters of the open 
sea are represented. 
Epinephelus merra B.Locu. 
eye te A, B49". Vi 6s PE. 6s ly OF. 
Taken on the reef at Suva, Fiji Islands. The markings vary some from those 
of the published figure. Certain of the spots are darker than the others and 
their arrangement is such as to form transverse bands, of which one crosses 
the nape and descends to the operculum, another passes downward, including 
the second to the fifth spinous rays of the dorsal, across the flank, a third goes 
down from the hindmost three of the same spines and a fourth crosses from 
the middle rays of the soft portion of this fin to the anal. Three or four larger 
and blacker spots are to be seen on the basal portions of the pectoral rays. 
Apogon nubilus, sp. nov. 
Plate 1, Fig. 1. 
Bree 7 D7 + 10: AS 28 3 Vi6.s -P. 12: Ll..265 Ltr. 2-6. 
Form short, stout, compressed; depth nearly one-third of total length. 
Head deep, short, in length equal to depth of body; crown depressed, nearly 
flat. Snout blunt, short, half as long as the eye. Eye large, two-sevenths as 
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