230 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
long as head. Mouth large, rising obliquely forward; maxillary widened 
backward, bearing a low ridge, reaching below the middle of the eye. Teeth 
very small, in narrow villiform bands on the jaws, in a single doubly curved 
series on the vomer, and in groups of a few each on the ends of the palatines. 
The space between the dorsals is nearly equal to the length of the snout. The 
anterior dorsal spine is short, the second is not quite as long as the third, and 
the last is equal to the spine of the second dorsal, to the second spine of the 
anal, or to the length of the eye. Scales broad, minutely spinose on and near 
the hind margin, those of the lateral line with a rounded ridge and separated 
from the dorsals by the width of a single scale or from the vertebral line of 
the caudal pedicel by two scales. Caudal notch shallow, fin appearing trun- 
cate when spread. 
Color brownish, head darker, darker on crown and back ; with seven silvery 
bands across the flanks below the dorsals and a blackish spot on the lateral 
line about three scales from its end, forward from the bases of the caudal rays. 
A dark streak passes from below the middle of the eye backward and down to 
the hinder angle of the preoperculum. 
Allied to A. monochrous of Bleeker, but readily distinguished by the mark- 
ings. From A. lineatus of Schlegel it differs in the larger eye, shorter maxillary, 
the notch in the caudal, the shapes of the fins, and the caudal spot. 
Taken at Suva, Fiji Islands. 
Apogon crassiceps, sp. nov. 
D. 6, 44-9%. A. 2 4:°9:- V.. Gs BP. 135 hl. 234 Ltr. 9. 
To some extent the shape of this species resembles that of A. nubalus, but the 
lower jaw is shorter, the caudal region is longer, and the foremost portions of 
the fins are longer and more angular. The outline from the snout to the 
dorsal is slightly arched at the crown of the head. Head large, thick, equal 
in length to the depth of the body, little less than one-third of the total, 
convex on the occiput. Snout blunt, three-fourths as long as the eye. Eye 
large, more than one-third of the head. Mouth large, cleft rising forward, 
jaws about equally prominent, maxillary wider backward and reaching to or 
beyond a vertical from the hind margin of the eye. Teeth small, equal, in 
villiform bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines. A weak opercular spine. 
Space between dorsal fins short, one-third the length of the snout. First ray 
of spinous dorsal short, second ray stronger and longer than any of the other 
rays ; hinder spines decreasing rapidly in length and strength. Spine of soft 
dorsal slender, three-fifths of the length of the first soft ray in dorsal or anal, 
one-third shorter than longest ray of first dorsal. As the lengths of the soft 
rays in anal and soft dorsal decrease rapidly backward, these fins have an 
angular appearance. Caudal notch deep, lobes rather sharp. Preopercle with 
a ridge near the finely serrated posterior margin. Scales large, ctenoid, about 
