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Samoa, all smaller, the dark streak from the eye to the preopercle 

 angle is narrow, not, quite so wedge-shaped as in the Manila exam- 

 ples. Also some show the dark saddle on the caudal peduncle 

 simply as a dark blotch above the lateral line. 



The rest of the series embraces 115 examples; all seem to agree in 

 the dull unicolored caudal. They show underlaid traces of the 

 three vertical broad dark bands of A. bandanensis, but only one on 

 the caudal peduncle distinct, while others give place to about six 

 vertical and rather broad bands in the space between the head and 

 last dorsal ray's base. 



Apogon savayensis Day^^ may represent a species distinct from the 

 present one, as it is described and figured with the hind caudal edge 

 dusky. It also has three broad dark vertical bands, one from each 

 dorsal and the other a saddle on the caudal peduncle above. It 

 surely approaches more closely Bleeker's A. bandanensis, which is 

 figured with a uniform caudal. 



A . yiuhilus Garman^^ is closer to my larger lot of specimens grouped 

 above under the present species, but differs in the dark bar on the 

 caudal basally, the dark broad vertical underlaid shades on the body 

 below the dorsal fins, and the caudal peduncle blotch complete. 

 Jordan and Scale say it is apparently the young of Amia savayensis 

 with the* markings faded. 

 Archamia zosterophora (Bleeker). Fig. 12. 



Head 2t; depth 2f ; D. VI-I, 9, i; A, II, 15; P. ii, 12; V. I, 5; scales 

 (pockets) 20 in lateral line to caudal base and 4? more on latter; 

 2 scales (pockets) above 1.1. to spinous dorsal origin, and about 6 

 below in vertical series to spinous anal origin; 6 predorsal scales; 

 head width 2^ its length; head depth 1^; mandible If; third dorsal 

 spine 2f ; second dorsal ray 1|; second anal spine 2|; first branched 

 anal ray 1|; least depth of caudal peduncle 2f; upper caudal lobe 

 If; pectoral If; ventral 2|; snout 4^ in head measured from upper 

 jaw tip; eye 2|; maxillary 2\; interorbital 3|. 



Body well compressed, contour rather elongately ovoid with 

 greatest depth at dorsal origin, and edges all convexly rounded. 

 Caudal peduncle well compressed, least depth 1^ its length. 



Head deep, well compressed, flattened sides slightly approximated 

 below, and lower profile very much more steep and convex than 

 upper. Snout convex over surface, length about half its width. 

 Eye large, close to upper profile, rounded, and hind edge about 



" Fishes of India, I, 1875, p. 60, PI. 16, fig. 5. 



12 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 39, 1903, p. 230, PI. 1, fig. 1. Suva, Fiji. 



