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Color in alcohol dull brownish, more or less with general dull 

 sooty tint, below well as above. Four obscure dark longitudinal 

 bands, broad at first and narrow behind. First on back above 

 lateral line, then along upper edge of caudal peduncle. Second 

 from shoulder just below lateral line, and crosses latter below hind 

 portion of soft dorsal. Third as band on snout tip, behind eye and 

 crosses opercle back above pectoral to base of lower caudal lobe. 

 Fourth obscurely along lower edge of abdomen. Caudal base with 

 round jet-black spot about size of pupil, slightly above middle. 

 Muzzle sooty-brown. Iris slaty. Fins all pale, outer portion of 

 spinous dorsal brownish, and soft dorsal, anal and caudal all with 



3 or 4 rows of small brown spots transversely. Gill-opening edge 

 below broadly dusted dusky-brown, also lower surfaces of ventrals. 



Leng-th 90 mm. (caudal damaged). 



Type, No. 47,500, A. N. S. P. 



Philippine Islands. Presented by the Commercial Museums of 

 Philadelphia. 



Also Nos. 47,501 to 47,504, A. N. S. P., paratypes,- same data. 

 They show: Head 2f to 2|; depth 2| to 3; D. VII-I, 9, i, and 

 one VII-I, 10, i; A. II, 8, i; scales 22 to 24 in 1.1. to caudal base and 



4 or 5 more on latter; snout 3f to 4 in head; eye 3 to 3f ; maxillary 2; 

 interorbital 5 to 5|; length 75 to 90 mm. 



Allied with Amia hartzfeldi Bleeker,^" but that species is figured by 

 its author with the dark caudal spot median basally, and but one 

 blackish bar sub-basally on soft dorsal and anal, also scales on cheek 

 in 4 rows, and maxillary longer. 



(For Mr. Louis Radcliffe, of the Bureau of Fisheries at Washington, 

 who stucUed the cardinal fishes of the Philippines.) 

 Amia savayensis (Giinther). 



A large series of this very variable species, 40 to 73 mm. in length. 

 Sixteen agree with Gtinther's figure in most cases, but as they have 

 long been in formaline the color-pattern has largely faded. In 

 some the dark vertical stripes are very narrow, as the dark bands in 

 all are margined each side with a still darker tint, and all the inter- 

 vening color fading leaves them increased from the original eight 

 to twice that number. The broad dark band on the caudal peduncle 

 is present only as a saddle above. Every one of these examples 

 have the oblique dark streak from the lower corner of the eye across 

 the cheek. Upon comparison with eight specimens from Apia, 



1" Atlas Ich. Ind. Neerl., VIII, 1876-7, PL 69, fig. 2. 



