ON A COLLECTION OF FI8IIP:S FROM FIJI, WITH NOTES ON CERTAIN ILVWAIIAN FLSHES. By David Starr Jordan and Marv Cynthia Dickerson, Of Stanford University, California. On retnrninw from Now Zealand in 1907 tho senior antlior made a small collection of fishes from the coral reef at Snva, the capital of Fiji. A larijer collection from the same place was sent later by Dv. Bolton (ilanville Corney, surgeon of the British Government, resident at Suva, to whom we are indebted for special favors. A series of specimens is in the LTnited States National INIuseum and in Stanford I^niversity. 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. LutUdius aureovittatus and Leiognatluix .sinif/u/rsfi have been hitherto known oidy from New Guinea, while Xi/stama I'd pas and Rastrelliger hrarht/somiis have been recorded from the P^ast Indies only. A single species, Ahudcfdiif eorneyi^ 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.^. 1. CARCHARIAS INSULARUM Snyder. Two partly grown sharks, each about 8 feet long, were taken with a hook from the steamer Moana near the equator in the open sea betw^een 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; pectoi-al very long, reach-ing the posterior axis of the very high dorsal: anal and second dor-sal small, subequal. The snout in these specimens seems more blunt tlian 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. G03
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