186 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Family CHANID^E. 



CHANOS Cuvier. 



53. Chanos chanos (Forskal). Hawaii; New Caledonia; Samoa; New Guinea; tropical Pacific. 

 Common along the shores inside the reefs of Samoa. 



Family ALBULID^E. 



ALBTJLA Gronow. 



54. Albula vulpes (Linnjeus). Tahiti; Tonga; Hawaii; New Guinea; warm seas. 



Family CLUPEIMi. 

 ETRTJMETJS Bleeker. 



55. Etrumeus micropus (Schlegel). Hawaii; Japan. 



STOLEPHORUS Lacepede. (Spratelloides Bleeker.) 



56. Stolephorus delicatulus (Bennett). Nefu. Samoa; East Indies. 



About 20 specimens of this fragile little fish were taken inside the reefs of Apia and Pago Pago. 

 Color in life, deep sky blue, sides silvery. 



DTJSSUMIERIA Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



57. Dussumieria acuta Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



CORICA Gray. (Clupeoides Bleeker.) 



58. Corica papuensis Ramsay & Ogilby. New Guinea. 



Corica papuensis Ramsay <fc Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1SS6, 19, Strickland River (New Guinea). 



SARBINELLA Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 (Amblygaster Bleeker; Sardinia Poey.) 



59. Sardinella sirm (Forskal). 1'amoana; Pelupelu. Samoa; East Indies. 



Clupea sirm Riippell, Neue Wirbelthiere, 77, taf . 21, fig. 1, 1835, Red Sea. Giinther, Cat., VII, 425, Zanzibar, Batavia. 

 Sardinella leigastroides, Bleeker, Tijds. Ned. Ind., VII, 255, Manado; scales 45. 



We have numerous specimens of a large sardine from the .shores about Apia. It agrees closely 

 with Gunther's account of ' Clupea sirm, and must be the fish thus called by Giinther. It has only a 

 single dark spot behind the gill-opening, and the species with a series of such spots along the side 

 (leiogaster and punctata) must be different. It is, of course, an excellent food-fish. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, deep blue above, somewhat streaky along rows of 



scales, abruptly silvery below; a small spot behind gill-opening; tips of jaws dusky; fins small, dusky 



above. 



HARENGULA Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



(Kowala, Rogenia, and Clupeonia Cuvier & Valenciennes; Paralosa Bleeker.) 



60. Harengula commersoni (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Pelupelu. Vanicolo; Samoa; East Indies. 



(?) Clupea melanura Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. I, vol. II, p. 318, 1817; no description; obscure reference to Lacepede. 

 Chipeonia commersoni Cuvier <& Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xx, 350, 1847, Pondicherry. 

 Clupeonia vittata Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., 352, 1847, Vanicolo. 

 Harengula melanurus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., v, 245. 

 Clupea atricauda Giinther, Cat., VII, 426, 1869, Ceram, Amboina. 



One fine specimen was taken at Apia. Life colors, caudal lobes jet black; back blue, blackish 

 streaks along the rows of scales above, sides silvery white. 



