ON A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM FIJI, WITH NOTES 
ON CERTAIN HAWAIIAN FISHES. 
By Davin Srarr Jorpan and Mary Cynruia Dickerson, 
Of Stanford University, California. 
On returning from New Zealand in 1907 the senior author made a 
small collection of fishes from the coral reef at Suva, the capital of 
Wij. A larger collection from the same place was sent. later by 
Dr. Bolton Glanville Corney, surgeon of the British Government, 
resident at Suva, to whom we are indebted for special favors. <A 
series of specimens is in the United States National Museum and in 
Stanford University. 
The fish fauna of the Fiji Islands is evidently in the main identical 
with that of Samoa. But even in this small collection certain dif- 
ferences appear, and these distinctions approximate it to the fauna 
of New Guinea and of the East Indies. Lutianus aureovittatus and 
Leiognathus smithursti have been hitherto known only from New 
Guinea, while Yystema kapas and Rastrelliger brachysomus have 
been recorded from the East Indies only. <A single species, A budefduf 
corneyt, seems to be new to science. A few notes on rare Hawaiian 
fishes, taken on the same trip, are included. ‘These are not numbered 
in. the series. 
Family CARCHARIID&. 
zt. CARCHARIAS INSULARUM Snyder. 
Two partly grown sharks, each about 8 feet long, were taken with 
a hook from the steamer J/cana near the equator in the open sea 
between the atoll called Mary Island and Fiji. 
They were gray in color, with conspicuous whitish tips to all the 
fins. Snout very short and blunt, broader than long; teeth strongly 
serrate, not notched on the outer margin; pectoral very long, reach- 
ing the posterior axis of the very high domeell: anal and second dor- 
sal small, subequal. 
The snout in these specimens seems more blunt than in the figure 
published by Professor Snyder, but they seem to belong to no other 
known species. 
PROCEEDINGS U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOL. XXXIV—No. 1625. 
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