REPORT ON COLLECTIONS OF FISHES MADE IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, 
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 
By OLIVER P. JENKINS, 
Professor of Physiology , Leland Stanford Junior University . 
The account here presented of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands is based mainly 
on a large collection made by me in the summer of 1889, with the help of Mr. George 
C. Price and Mr. Oscar Vaught, then students of De Pauw University. The greater 
part of the expenses of this expedition was borne bj r De Pauw University. This 
collection contained 110 genera and 238 species, of which 7 genera and 78 species are 
thought to be new to science. 
The other collections which have come into my hands for study and which have 
also been used as material for this report are as follows: A small collection, consist- 
ing of 16 species, being the shore fishes taken by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 
Albatross in 1891 at Honolulu, during the Hawaiian cable survey made by that 
vessel; a collection of 18 species obtained under the direction of Dr. David Starr 
Jordan by the Albatross in 1896, on the return of that vessel from the work of the 
Fur-Seal Commission; a collection made in 1898 by Dr. Thomas I). Wood, in the 
making of which Dr. Wood had the valuable assistance of Mr. Iveleipio, at that time 
inspector of the fish market at Honolulu; a small but important collection sent to 
Stanford University in 1899 by Dr. A. B. Wood of Honolulu; a single specimen 
( Romania makua) sent to Stanford University in 1893 by Mr. C. B. Wilson of 
Honolulu; a collection made at Honolulu by Dr. Jordan and Mr. Snyder on their 
return from their expedition to Japan in 1900; and lastly, a small collection made by 
Mr. Richard C. McGregor in 1900 at various points among the islands. 
These collections, together with my own, aggregate 147 genera and 254 species, 
of which 7 genera and 93 species were thought to be new. Besides the new species 
here given the list contains 62 species which are for the first time noted from the 
Hawaiian Islands, making in all 155 species added to the known fish fauna of this 
group. 
In view of the fact that in the summers of 1901 and 1902 the U. S. Fish Com- 
mission, under the direction of Dr. David Starr Jordan and Dr. Barton Warren 
Evermann, made extensive collections of both the shore fishes and the deep-sea forms 
of the Hawaiian group, and under the direction of Dr. Jordan, in the summer of 
1902, an extensive collection of the fishes of the Samoan group was made, thus adding- 
very considerably to the material available for the discussion of all questions pertain- 
ing to the fish fauna of this group of islands; and, since the reports on these expedi- 
tions by these eminent specialists are soon to appear, it would seem obviously unwise 
and premature with the material of my collections to enter on the discussion of such 
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