FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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Steindachner, in 1878, described one new species, Myxus (Kromyxus) sclateri 
( = 'C/t;ehom,ugil chapiali) from the Hawaiian Islands, and Garman (1880) described 
Tri/gov lata (=Dasyafts lata) from the same place, the specimen having been col¬ 
lected by Andrew Garrett. Two years later Smith and Swain (1882) published in 
the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum a report on a collection of tishes from 
Johnston Island. This collection was made in 1880 by the captain of a vessel belong¬ 
ing to the North Pacific Guano Company at the instance of Dr. Jordan, who 
supplied the vessel with a can .of alcohol for preserving the specimens. The collec¬ 
tion contained 27 nominal species, 5 of which were described as new by Smith and 
Swain. The list is as follows: 
Fishes collected at Johnston Island by a vessel of the Xorth Pacific Guano Company in 1880. 
Nominal species. 
Page. Present identification. 
Ophichthys (Pisodontophis) sti/purus 
Gymnomursena tignini. 
Aulostomus chinensis. 
Polynemus knru. 
Scombroides sancti-petri. 
Caranx gymnostethoides.. 
Holocentrus leo. 
Holocentrus erythrams. 
Kuhlia tseniuni. 
Upeneus crassilabris. 
Upeneus velifer . 
Upeneus (Mulloides) vanicolensis ... 
Upeneus ( Mulloides) prcorbitalis . 
Chilinus digrammus. 
Scarus perspieillatus. 
Julis verticnlis . 
.1 ulis clepsyd rails . 
Harpe bilunulata. 
Chaetodon setifer. 
Acanthurus triostegus. 
Na«eus lituratus. 
Balistes aculeatus. 
Balistes buniva. 
Ostracion punctatum. 
Tetrodon meleagris. 
Diodon hystrix. 
Platophrys mancus. 
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Myrichtliys stypurus. 
Scuticaria tigrina. 
Aulostomus valent ini. 
Poly dart y lus sex filis. 
Scorn ben tides sancti-petri. 
Carangoides gymnostethoides. 
Holocentrus spinifer. 
Holocentrus erythneus. 
Kuhlia taeniura. 
Pseud upeneus crassi 1 ahri s. 
Pseudupeneus multifasciatus. 
Mulloides vanicolensis. 
Mulloides prcorbitalis. 
Gheilinus hexagon at us. 
Callyodon perspieillatus. 
Thaiassoma ballieui. 
Thalassoma duperrev. 
Lepidaplois albotaeniatus. 
Chadodon setifer. 
Hepatus sandvicensis. 
! Callicanthus lituratus. 
Balistapus aculeatus. 
, Melichthys radula. 
| Ostracion lentiginosum. 
Tetraodon lacrymatus. 
Diodon hystrix. 
Platophrys mancus. 
Steindachner, in 1887. raised to specific rank Uforonopdi* argentem mndvicensi* 
(— Kuhlia rnalo ), from these islands; and in 1893 he described .1 fgritpristis pilhra.cii 
from Honolulu. Jenkins (1895), in the Proceedings of the California Academy, 
described as new Rumania nialuu , from a specimen forwarded to Stanford Univer¬ 
sity by Mr. Charles R. Wilson, of Honolulu, the fish having been captured at Pearl 
Harbor January 25, 1N92. by Mr. Hiel Kapu. 
The next important contribution to our knowledge of the ichthyology of the 
Hawaiian Islands is the paper by Gilbert and Cramer (1897). While engaged in 
surveying a cable route between California and Honolulu in December, 1891, the 
AXbatro** made eight hauls with tie 1 beam trawl in Kaiwi Channel. Of the 28 species 
(by error given as 26 in the introduction to the report), 23 were thought to lie new by 
Gilbert and Cramer. Three new genera also were based upon this collection. 
