NOTES ON FISHES OBTAINED IN SUMATRA, JAVA, AND TAHITI By Henry W. Fowler 0/ the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phiiadelphia AND Barton A. Bean Of the Linited States Xaiiortoi Museum INTRODUCTION In October, November, and December, 1925, Lieut. H. C. Kellers, United States Navy, during the Solar Eclipse Expedition obtained in Java and Sumatra representatives of 100 species of fishes, and in June, 1925, Mr. J. Morgan Clements, of New York, while on a cruise along the north coast of Tahiti, Society Islands, collected representatives of 25 species, all of which have been deposited in the United States National Museum, and as but few collections of fishes from the Dutch Indies find their way into American museums we have prepared the present paper, in which several forms of excep-tional interest are noted in detail and one is described as new. To the already extensive bibliography of Sumatran fishes reference may here be made to that of Fowler in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, pp. 557-559), 1. FISHES COLLECTED IN SUMATRA AND JAVA DURING THE NAVAL SOLAR ECLIPSE EXPEDITION, 1925, BY LIEUT. H. C.-KELLERS, UNITED STATES NAVY Family CLUPEIDAE 1. DLSSLMIERIA HASSELTU Bleeker. Three, 52 to 71 mm. long, from Benkoelen. 2. HABENGULA BRACHYSOMA (Bleeker). One 113 mm. long. Benkoelen. 3 ILISHA BRACHYSOMA (Bleeker). One 88 mm. long, December 19, 1925. 4. OPISTHOPTERUS MACROGN'ATHLS Bleeker. One 116 mm. long, November, 1925. No. 2682.-PROCEEDINGS U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL. 71. ART. 10. 30336— 27t I
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