274 KXPKIMTIOX OF THK " AI,1?ATR()SS," 1S99 lOOO. 



spot about size of eyv, uiidcr antorior part of sdt'l doi'sal, about .(id of it above 

 lateral line: merest traee of auiithei' spot uudci' lath dorsal ra\' and nearly on 

 lateral line. 



EQUULIDAE. 

 Leiognathus fasciatus (LA(KPi^:DK). 



Jordan & Seam:, Bull. V. S. Hur. Fi.'^h., 1006, 25, p. 27o. 



Clupexi fasciala Lacepede, Hist. XmI. I'oiss., ISOli, 5, ]). 42.5, 4(i(), MV.i. 



One s])ecinien, No. 08S16, 4 inche.s long from Suva, Fiji Islands. 



Leiognathus splendens (CeviER.) 



Equidd sjilniilcis CuviER, Rpg. Anini. cd. 2, 1S29, 2. p. 212. Day, Fishes uf India, 1870, p. 239, 

 pF 52, fig. '.i. 



Two specimens, Nos. 0SS82, AI. C. Z. 2U7')r), 0,S,S2(i, 3| and 4i inches long 

 from Suva, Fiji Islands. 



Leiognathus edentula (Bloc ii). 



Scomber aientulus Block, Ichth., 179"), 12, taf. 428. 



Equula edcnluU Day, Fishes of India, 1876, p. 2.38, pi. .■V2, fip;. 1. 



Five specimens (young) Is to if inches long from Su\a, Fiji Islands. 



APOGONIDAE. 

 Apogon 1,A( Ki'i DK. 



In 18o4 in Nat. Tijds. Xed. Ind. 6, \^. '.\2\ , HIceker founded the genus Apo- 

 gonichthys, basing it on .1. pcrdix and giving, before his description of A. perdix, 

 a list of species comprised in the new gemis; .1. (iiirilns tCuxifv iV N'alenciennes, 

 7, p. 332) heading this list. 



The distinctive characters of Apogonichthys, he states, are the smooth 

 preopercle and intramarginal crest, and the presence of palatine leelh. Later, 

 in the description of .4. perdix he states that the laler;d line anteiiorly consists 

 of perceptible simple tubes and inconspicuous tubes posteriorly. Thus the 

 only character wherein .\pogoniclitliys dilTei-s from .\pogon is in the smooth 



