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One specimen, type no. 51712, U. S. National Museum, from Apia, Samoa. Length with tail 47 

 inches. The color in life was plain brown, not very dark, white below, with no reddish shades and 

 no ocelli. The species is allied to Himantura uarnak, but the latter species has the disk considerably 

 narrower. 



42 Himantura uarnak (Forskal). New Ireland; East Indies. 



43. Himantura g-rariulata (Macleay). New Guinea. 



Trygon granulatus Macleay, Froc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1883, 598, S. E. New Guinea. 



HYPOLOPHUS Dumeril. 



44. Hypolophus sephen (Forskal). New Britain; East Indies. 



Family AETOBATID^E. 

 AETOBATTJS Blainville. (Myliohatis Midler & Henle. ) 



45. Aetobatus punctatus (Macleay & Macleay). Admiralty Is. 



Myliobatw punctata.* .Macleay & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1880, 675, pi. 40, fig. 1, Admiralty Is. 

 ST0AS0D0N Cantor. {Aetobatis Miiller & Henle, not of Blainville.) 



46. Stoasodon narinari (Euphrasen). Hawaii; Laysan; East Indies; West Indies. 



Family MOBULID/E. 

 MOBULA Rafinesque. 



47. Mobula japonica Miiller & Henle. Hawaii; Japan. 



48. Mobula draco (Giinther). Misol. 



Dicerohaiis draco Giinther, Voy. Curacao, 412, 1873. 



Family CHIM/ERID/E. 



CHIMERA Linnaeus. 



49. Cliimsera purpurescens Gilbert. Deep seas of Hawaii; Japan. 



Family EL0P1D.-E. 



ELOPS Linnaeus. 



50. Elops saurus Linnaeus. Hawaii; Samoa; New Guinea; warm seas. 



MEGALOPS Lacepede. 



51. Meg-alops cyprinoides (Broussonet). Tahiti; Guam; Tubuai; Samoa; Papua; Fiji; New 



Hebrides (Seale); East Indies. 

 Megalops macropterus Bleeker, Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. 1806, '284, East Indies. 

 This widely diffused species is common at Samoa, inhabiting the river mouths and brackish pools 

 in the shores. Most of our many specimens from Apia were taken in a pool in the village just east of 

 the mouth of Vaisigano River, this pool being alternately filled by rain and by the surf in storms. 

 None of these specimens is more than a foot long. They correspond perfectly to the Megalops macrop- 

 lerus of Bleeker, which is plainly the original Clupea cyprinoides of Broussonet. We much doubt 

 the validity of any of the species detached from Megalops cyprinoides by Bleeker. In any case, the true 

 cyprinoides, from Tahiti, is Bleeker's macropterus. 



Faiiuly CHIK0CENTRID.€. 



CHIROCENTRTJS Cuvier. 



52. Chirocentrus dorab (Forskal). New Guinea; New Britain; East Indies. 



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