DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF FISH OF THE 
GENUS EVOXYMETOPON, POEY. 
By 
W. B. Alkxaxdek, M.A., Keeper of Biology in the Western 
Australian Museum. 
(Read June 13. 1916). 
With One Figure. Plate VIT. 
At 4 a.m. on the morning of I'ebruary o, 1916, Mr. W. J. 
McLaughlan who was on sentry duty on the beach at North Fre- 
mantle, noticed in the dim light an object which he at first took 
to be a snake, l)ut which on closer examination proved to be a 
remarkably elongated fish of a l)right silvery colour. Mr. F. H. 
Peek who passed by a little later, offered to |)reserve the specimen 
on ice until it could be forwarded to the W.A. IMuseum in Perth, at 
which institution it was duly received on b'ebruary Tth. Tt proves 
to be an example of the genus Evoxymetopon. Pocy. which was 
founded in 1863, for a fish obtained at Havana now in the United 
States National Museum. The only other specimen referred to 
the genus was obtained at a depth of 79 fathoms off Alauritius 
about the year 1887. Hence the discovery of a third specimen is 
an event of considerable interest. The literature dealing with 
this genus of fish is as follows: — 
Gill in the Proc. Acad. Nat. Sd. Philadel])hia. 1863, p, 228, de- 
scribed the original specimen obtained by Poey at Havana, adopt- 
ing Poey’s name of Ifvoxymetopon taeniatus for the genus and 
species. 'I'hc si)ccimcn was figured in the An. Soc. I7span. Hist. 
Nat.. 1873, Plate V. 
Gunther in the Sci. Res. of the Voy. of H.M.S. Challenger. 
Zool. XXII,, p. 39. described the example from Mauritius as 
F.voxymetopon poeyi, and figured it on Idate XTdil. 
Goode and Bean in Oceanic Ichthyology. Washington, 1895, 
give a description of .Kvoxymeto])on taeniatus, ap])arently founded 
on a re-examination of the type, I'hey also give a very poor 
figure ( Fig. 214 ) . 
1 have not traced any later references. 
To the present example 1 propose to give the name of 
Ih'oxymctopon anaac, sp. nov. 
