276 EXPEDITION OF THE "ALBATROSS," 1S99-UK)0. 



perclix Bleeker (Floris). This species has an incomplete lateral line, an cntii'c 

 preopercle and teeth on the palatines. The fi;enus Apogonichthys is therefore 

 the same as Foa. and Fowleria iaurita) is generically distinct." 'J'lie xalidity 

 of Fowleria depends upon whether A. aurita has palatine teeth. 



Professor Vaillant has kindly examined the type of Apogon uurilns in tiic 

 Museum at Paris and states that there are teeth upon the vomer l)ut none on 

 the palatines, and that it can be said that it has palatal but not palatine 

 teeth. Fowleria, based on the absence of palatine teeth, is therefore a valid 

 genus. 



Amia Gronovius, Zoophylaceum, 1763, p. 80 fnonbinomial). 



Apogon Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1802, 3, p. 411 {ruber). 



Apogonichthys Bleeker, Nat. Tijds, Ned. Ind., 1854, 6, p. 321 (perdix). 



Foa Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1905, 23, pt. 1, 210 (brachy- 

 grammus) . 



Apogon frenatus \'alenciennes. 



Nouv. .\nn. Mus. Hist. Nat., 1832, 1, p. oT, pi. 4, tig. 4. Gunthkr, Cut. 18.59, 1, p. 241. 

 GusTHER, Fische der SUdsee, 1873, 1, p. 19, taf. 19, fig. \. 



Amiafrenala Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 1876, 7, p. 7.5, 89, 8, tab. 342, Perc. 64, fig. 2. 



Amia melanorhynchus Bleeker, .\tlas Ichth., 1877, 8, tab. 343, Perc. 6.5, fig. 1 (not description). 



Apogon snyderi Jordan & Evermann, Bull. V . ^. Fish Coimu., 1903, 22, p. l.SO. 



One specimen, No. 05828, 31 inclies lonj>- from Papeete, Tahiti, Society 

 Islands. 



We have carefully compared this specimen and specimens of ,1. .•^i/uclrri in 

 the reserve series U. 8. liur. Fish, with \'alenciennes's description and fifjure 

 of A. frenatus and caimot find that th(\v diffor. .Jordan & Evermann ilac. cit.) 

 propose the name .1. .syiKhri for tiie iish wiiicii they .^ay (Uinther in Siid.see 

 erroneously calls A. frenatu.s; they ne<>iect, however, to say wherein (liinther is 

 in error. We find no discrepancies between li{i;ures and descrijitions of (iiinther 

 and Valenciennes, unless it be a slightly narrower lateral stripe in \ alenciennes's 

 figure, which we consider- iinimixirtant. Bleeker lias a fif>ure and (l(>scri])ti()n 

 of A. frenatus which agrees with (nir s))ecinieiis and whicli he says is lite same as 

 the A. frenatus of (liinther's ('atalogue. lnit nnl the >ame a- the A. frnnilus 

 described and figured in his Siid.-^ee, the hitter being arcdniing to Bh'cker 

 A. fasciata. But Bleeker"s descri])tiiin and ligure of .1 . ,/"a.s'c/a/(/ do not agree; 



