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473. Monodactylus arg-enteus (Linnaeus). Tolo. Samoa; New Guinea; Vanicolo; Fiji; East Indies; 

 Australia. 

 Cluetodon argenteus Linnams, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 1758, China; after Lagerstrom. Gunther, Cat., n, 488, Moluccas, 



Amboina, Ceylon, Australia. 

 Psettus argenteus, Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, 140, Samoa. Klunzinger, Fisehe Roth. Meeres, 794, Red Sea. 

 Scomber rhombeus, Forskal. Descrip. Anini., 58, 1775, Red Sea. 

 iMonodactylusfalciformis Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 131. 1802. 

 Psettus commersoni Cuvicr & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 250, 1831, Vanicolo; after Lacepede. 



This species, common in the East Indies, was found rather abundant in the harbor of Apia in the 

 deeper water between the reefs. Eight specimens were taken. It is a valued food-fish. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, silvery white with some dusky; a faint orbital bar. Young 

 with three curved bla-k crossbars on the head. 



Fig. 30. — Monodactylus argenteus i Linneeua). 

 ATYPICHTHYS Gimther. 



474. Atypichthys strig-atus (Gunther). Erromango, New Hebrides; Palacky; Australia. 



Family KURT1D/E. 



KURTTJS Bloch. 



475. Kurtus gulliveri Castelnau. New Guinea. 



Kurlus gulliveri C'astelnau, Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Victoria, New Guinea. 



Cijrtus gulliveri, Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 1886, 10, Strickland River (New Guinea). 



Family APOGONICHTHYID^E. 



AMIA Gronow" (1763). (Apogon Lacepede, 1S02.) Fo. 



476. Amia suyderi (Jordan & Evermann). Hawaii; Samoa; Tahiti; Paumotu Is. ; Tubuai; Fate, 

 Shortland I., and Raiatea (Seale). 

 Apogon snyderi Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxu, 1902 (1903), 180, Honolulu. 

 Apogon frcnatus Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, i, 19, t;if . 19, fig. A, 1873, Hawaiian, Society, and Paumotu Is. 

 Steindachner, Denks. Ak. wis. Wien, lxx, I'joo, 481, Honolulu. Not Apogon frenatus Valenciennes, Nouv. 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1832, 57, pi. 4, fig. 4, nor of Klunzinger. 



'i Under the rules of nomenclature adopted by us the name Amia Gronow (1763) becomes tenable for this genus, having 

 priority over Apogon (1802) and over Amia Linnams (17G6), for which genus Rafinesque's name, Amiatus (1815), must be 

 used. 



