118 'ENDEAVOUR" SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



AMIA FASCIATA, 8haw. 



subsp. AROUBIENSIS, Hombron & Jacquinot. 



Apogon fasciatus, Giinther, Jouru. Mus. Godeff., ii., 1873, 

 p. 19, pi. xx., fig. A. 



Amia aroubiensis (Hombron & Jacquinot), Jordan & Seale, 

 Bull. U.S. Fish. Bur., xxv., 1906, p. 241, fig. 35. Id.. 

 Radcliffe, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xli., 1911, p. 250, 

 pi. xxii. 



Three specimens are in the Australian Museum, two of which 

 are from Murray Island, Torres Strait ; the other was collected 

 in Suva, Fiji. 



AMIA FASCIATA, Shaw. 



subsp. COMPRESSA, Radcliffe. 



Amia compressa, Radcliffe, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xli.. 1911, 

 p. 246, pi. xx., xxi. 



Four specimens of this well-marked form are in the Austra- 

 lian Museum from the Malay Archipelago and Bougainville 

 Island, Solomon Group. 



AMIA FASCIATA, Shaw. 



subsp. STEVENSI, subsp. uov. 

 (Plate xvi., fig. 2.) 



Amia novemfasciata var., Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. 

 Bur., xxv., 1906, fig. 37 (not A. novemfasciata, Cuv. 

 and Val.). 



Amia robusta part, Radcliffe, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xli, 

 1911, p. 256. 



This form was considered to be a variety of A. novemfasciata 

 by Jordan and Seale, and later identified with A. robusta by 

 Radcliffe. I have examined sixty-two specimens, 24- 100mm. 

 long, from various parts of the New Hebrides ; they are easily 

 separated from A. novemfasciata by the lack of the caudal 

 markings characteristic of that form, while they never have 

 the round black caudal spot of A. robusta (=A. fasciata). 

 Some specimens approach A. aroubiensis, but differ in having 

 the bands narrower and ending less abruptly at the base 

 of the tail. 



The median band is often somewhat expanded and darker 

 at the base of the caudal. An indefinite secondary band 

 may be present or a,bsent anteriorly between the dorso-lateral 

 and the median bands. The black band on the dorsal may 



