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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



69. Anchovia evermanni Jordan & Seale, new species. Nefu. Samoa. 



Head 4 in length; depth 4.50; eye 3.75 in head; snout 1.75; dorsal i, 13; anal i, 30; scales 34; 

 interorbital space equal to eye; maxillary equal to depth of fish, 4.50 in length. 



Body elongate, compressed; scales large and deciduous; belly trenchant, the scales of middle row 

 each ending in a sharp spine; snout projecting, conical; origin of dorsal midway between tip of snout 

 and base of caudal, its longest ray equal to distance from middle of eye to posterior margin of opercle; 

 pectoral inserted low and extending to base of ventrals, the length 1.50 in head; ventrals 2 in head, 

 their origin nearer pectoral than base of anal; origin of anal posterior to base of dorsal, its length equal 

 to head; caudal deeply forked, the lobes equal to length of head; numerous small teeth on the 

 pterygoids, palatines, vomer and jaws; maxillary extending to posterior angle of preopercle, and 

 bearing a single row of fine teeth; gillrakers scarcely equal to eye, 23 on the lower limb. 



Fig. 4. — Anchovia evermanni Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



Color in spirits, silvery, darker above, with a bluish wash; a golden wash on cheek; a dusky blotch 

 on upper margin of orbit; fins all yellowish white, the caudal with an indistinct tip of dusky on end 

 of lobes. In life one specimen had an orange blotch behind gill-opening above, dorsal and caudal 

 chiefly light orange-brown, no silvery lateral band. 



Five specimens, from Apia; type no. 51719, U. S. National Museum, 5 inches long. In all these 

 specimens the depth is 4.66 to 4.75 in the length, instead of 4 times, as stated by Bleeker and Giinther 

 of Anchovia bselama, the nearest known species. 



This species is named for Dr. Barton Warren Evermann. 



70. Anchovia scratchleyi (Ramsay & Ogilby). New Guinea. 



Engraulis scratchleyi Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1886, 18, Strickland River ( New Guinea) . 



71. Anchovia enchrasicoloides (Bleeker). New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



Family AUL0P1M. 

 CHLOROPHTHALMTJS Bonaparte. 



72. Chlorophthalmus proridens Gilbert & Cramer. Deep waters of Hawaii. 



Family SYN0D0NTID£. 

 SYNODUS Bloch & Schneider. 



73. Synodus varius Lacepede. Hawaii; Samoa; New Guinea; Fiji; Mangareva (Seale) : Japan. 



A few specimens of this widely diffused species were taken at Samoa, on the shore within the reef. 



74. Synodus kaianus Giinther. Deep seas of Hawaii; Arafura Sea. 



TRACHINOCEPHALUS Gill. 



75. Trachinocephalus myops Forster. Hawaii; warm seas. 



