FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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and M. Henri Gervais, aid-naturalist to M. de Blainville, assisted Souleyet in the 
determinations and descriptions of the mammals and birds. 
The Bonite left Toulon February 6, 1836, to carry French consular agents to 
Chile, the Philippines, and elsewhere, and arrived at the bay of Karakakooa, 
Hawaii, October 1, 1837. She remained until October 6, and then proceeded 
to Honolulu, where she arrived October 8 and remained until November 24, when 
sue sailed for Manila. During the time spent among the Hawaiian Islands 15 
species of hshes were collected, 9 of which were described as new by Evdoux and 
Souleyet (1842) in the zoology of the voyage of the Bonite. 
Fishes collected at the Hawaiian Islands by the French corvette Bonite in 1831. 
Nominal species. 
(’hsetodon miliaris 
Caranx pinnulatus . 
Caranx stellatus . 
Acanthurus humeralis 
Mugil chaptalii . 
Mugil cepnalotus .. 
Gobius stamineus . 
Chironectes reticulatus 
Chironectes leprosus... 
Scarus formosus . 
Chanos cyprinella . 
Saurus limbatus . 
Conger marffinatus - 
Mursena valenciennii .. 
Tetraodon stellatus — 
Vol. 
Page. 
Plate and figure. 
Present identification. 
I 
163 
PI. 2, fig. 2. 
Chsetodon miliaris. 
I 
165 
PI. 3, fig. 1. 
Decapte rus sanctse-h e 1 eiue. 
1 
167 
PI. 3, fig. 2. 
Carangus melampygus. 
I 
169 
PI. 2, fig. 3. 
Hepatus olivaceus. 
I 
171 
PI. 4. fig. 1. 
Chaenomugil chaptalii. 
I 
175 
PI. 4, fig. 4 . 
Mugil cephalus. 
I 
179 
PI. 5, fig. 5. 
Awaous stamineus. 
I 
186 
pi. a, fig. 2 . 
Antennarius bigibbus. 
I 
187 
PI. 5, fig. 3. 
Antennarius leprosus. 
I 
191 
PI. 6, fig. 3. 
Callvodon formosus. 
I 
196 
PI. 7. fig. 1. 
Chanos chanos. 
1 
199 
Traehinocephalus myops. 
I 
201 
PI. 9. fig. 1. 
Leptocephalus marginal us. 
I 
207 
PI. 8, fig. 1. 
< i vmnofhora x u ndulatus. 
I 
212 
PI. 10, fig. 2. 
Tetraodon hispidus (?). 
In the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History at the meeting of 
October 25,1858, Agassiz established the new genus (ioninhatix for a new skate from 
the Hawaiian Islands, which he called Gon-idnxtix meleagriKM= Stoamdon nan nan). 
In the various volumes of Gunther’s Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum 
(Volumes I-VHI, 1859-1870) 45 species are recorded from the Hawaiian Islands, as 
follows: 
Fishes in the British Museum recorded from the Hawaiian Islands. 
Nominal species. 
Volume. 
Page. 
Present identification. 
I 
119 
Cephalopholis argus. 
Chfetodon quadrimaculatus. 
II 
13 
11 
15 
II 
16 
Chtetodon fremblii. 
II 
19 
Chsetodon humeralis." 
II 
3i 
II 
43 
II 
73 
II 
74 
II 
436 
Carangus melampygus. 
II 
493 
III 
93 
Sicydium stimpsoni. 
Lentipes concolor. 
Antennarius leprosus. 
Antennarius bigibbus. 
III 
96 
III 
194 
III 
199 
III 
220 
III 
226 
Hvpsoblennius brevipinnis. 
III 
248 
III 
327 
Hepatus sandvicensis. 
III 
34‘2 
III 
342 
III 
346 
Hepatus dussumieri. 
Dascvllus albisella. 
IV 
13 
IV 
34 
Pomacentrus jenkinsi. 
Abudefduf abdominalis. 
IV 
38 
), 
a Both valid species, but they came from the coast of Mexicc 
b Hilo. Hawaii. 
