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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
By far the most important studies of the fishes of the Hawaiian Islands that had 
been made previous to the present investigations were those carried on by Dr. Oliver 
Peebles Jenkins. In the summer of 1889, Dr. Jenkins, then professor of biology in 
De Pauw University, now professor of physiology in Stanford University, fitted out 
an expedition to make collections of the fishes of the Hawaiian Islands. He was 
accompanied by Mr. George C. Price, now associate professor of zoology in Stanford 
University, and Mr. Oscar Vaught, then students of l)e Pauw University. The 
expenses of the expedition were shared by De Pauw University, Indiana University, 
and Dr. Jenkins himself, the former institution paying the major part. Several 
weeks were spent at Honolulu by I>r. Jenkins and his students, and a brief trip was 
made to Hilo. The collection obtained was vastly larger than any previously made, 
and contained no fewer than 140 genera and 238 species, of which 7 genera and 78 
species have been described by Dr. Jenkins as new. While engaged in studying his 
own large collection, several smaller lots of Hawaiian fishes came into Doctor Jenkins's 
hands, viz: Sixteen species of shore fishes obtained at Honolulu by the U. S. Fish 
Commission Steamer Albatross in 1891 while making the Hawaiian cable survey; 18 
species secured by Dr. Jordan at Honolulu in 1896, when the Albatross stopped at 
that place while on the fur-seal investigation; a small collection made at Honolulu in 
1898 by Dr. Thomas I). Wood, then of Stanford University; another small collection 
obtained by Dr. Wood in 1899; a single example of Ransania mahua sent to Stan¬ 
ford University by Mr. C. B. Wilson, of Honolulu; a few species obtained at Hono¬ 
lulu by Dr. Jordan and Mr. John O. Snyder when returning from their expedition to 
Japan in 1900; and lastly, a small collection made in 1900 at various places among 
the Hawaiian Islands by Mr. Richard C. McGregor. These, added to the collections 
made by Dr. Jenkins, make a total of 147 genera and 254 species, of which 7 genera 
and 94 species were thought by Dr. Jenkins to be new. Besides the 94 species 
regarded as new, 62 other species were for the first time recorded from the Hawaiian 
Islands, making a total of 155 species added to the fish fauna, which up to that time 
consisted of but 99 known species. Four papers have resulted from Dr. Jenkins’s 
studies of these collections—three preliminary (1895, 1900, and 1901), and a final 
paper (1903), giving a full account of all the species represented. Following is a 
list of the new species and new genera described in these various papers: 
New specie* of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands , in various collections, reported on by Dr. 0 . 1 \ Jenkins. 
Nominal species. 
Page and figure. 
Type number. 
1895. 
L. S. Jr. V. M. 
1900. 
40, fig. 1. 
0130. 
47, fig. 2. 
0131 . 
48, fig. 3. 
0132 . 
48’ fig. 4 ... 
12141... 
49, fig. 5 . . 
0133..., 
51, fig. 6 ... 
51, tig. 7. 
0138. 
52, fig. 8. 
0029 . 
53, fig. 9. 
5984. 
53, fig. 10. 
0135 . 
54, fig. 11. 
0137. 
5990 . 
50, tig. 13 . 
0134... 
57, fig. 11 . 
6136 . 
58, fig. 15. 
12142 . 
Hearns brunneus. 
59, fig. Hi. 
6139. 
Present Mentification. 
Ranzania makua. 
Macroplmryngodon geoffroy. 
Halichceres ornatissimus. 
Halichceres lao. 
Jill is lepomis. 
Coris venusta. 
('oris rosea. 
Thalassoma duperrey. 
N ovacul ic h t h ys w< >< >d i. 
Do. 
Hemipteronotus urabrilatns. 
Iniistius pavoninus. 
Iniistius niger. 
Cheilinns hexagonatus. 
Anarapses evennanni. 
Calotomus irradians. 
Callyodon brunneus. 
