FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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Steindachner, in 1878, described one new species, Myxus ( Neomyxus ) sclateri 
(= Chaenomugil chaptali) from the Hawaiian Islands, and Garman (1880) described 
Try g on lata ( = Dasyatis 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 fishes 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 North Pacific Guano Company in 1880. 
Nominal species. 
Page. 
Present identification. 
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Myrichthys stypurus. 
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Polydaetylus sexfilis. 
Scomberoides sancti-petri. 
Carangoides gymnostethoides. 
Holocentrus spinifer. 
Holocentrus erythrseus. 
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Pseudupeneus crassilabris. 
Pseudupeneus multi fasciatus. 
Mulloides vanicolensis. 
Mulloides preorbitalis. 
Cheilinus hexagonatus. 
Callyodon perspicillatus. 
Thaiassoma ballieui. 
Thalassoma duperrev. 
Lepidaplois albotsniatus. 
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J ulis verticalis : 
Julis clepsydralis 
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Hepatus sandvicensis. 
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Balistes aculeatus 
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Balistapus aculeatus. 
Melichthys radula. 
Ostracion lentiginosum. 
Tetraodon laorymatus. 
Diodon hystrix. 
Platophrys mancus. 
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Platophrvs man'cus 
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Steindachner, in 1887, raised to specific rank fiforonopsis argenteus sandvicensis 
(= Kuhlia rnalo ), from these islands; and in 1893 lie described Myrijeristis pill wax! I 
from Honolulu. Jenkins (1895), in the Proceedings of the California Academy, 
described as new Romania maJata , from a specimen forwarded to Stanford Univer- 
sity by Mr. Charles B. Wilson, of Honolulu, the fish having been captured at Pearl 
Harbor January 25, 1892, 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 
Albatross made eight hauls with the beam trawl in Kaiwi Channel. Of the 28 species 
(by error given as 2G in the introduction to the report), 23 were thought to be new by 
Gilbert and Cramer. Three new genera also were based upon this collection. 
