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46. Number of soft anal rays averages fewer than 14, range from 13 to 

 15 ; total number of gill rakers averages about 22 ; total number of 

 gill rakers minus number of soft anal rays equals 7 or more ; spot 

 at base of caudal lin usually intensely developed, blackish and 

 smaller, about 2.0 to 2.5 in least depth of caudal peduncle, propor- 

 tionately smaller in young. 



A. lineolata ( Cuvier and Valenciennes ) 



ARCHAMIA BURUENSIS (Bleeker) 



Apogon huruensis Bleekee, 1856a, p. 394 (type locality, Kajeli, Bouro). 



Amia buroensis Bleekeb, 1873-76, vol. 7, p. 102; 1876-77, vol. 8, pi. (75) 353, fig. 2. 



Specimens studied. — U.S.N.M. No. 112111, 43 specimens, 25 to 53 

 mm.. May 20, 1908, below mouth of Min River, Cotabato, Mindanao, 

 Philippine Islands; U.S.N.M. No. 112112, 1 specimen, 62 mm., August 

 6, 190G, below mouth of Monucan River, Mindanao; U.S.N.M. No. 

 112113, 1 specimen, 43 mm., March 17, 1909, Port Dupon, Leyte Island, 

 Philippine Islands; U.S.N.M. No. 112114, 3 specimens, 53 to 65 mm., 

 April 2, 1909, Mantaquin Bay, Palawan Island, Philippine Islands; 

 U.S.N.M. No. 112115, 1 specimen, 14 mm., August 8, 1908, China Sea, 

 (lat. 20°31' N., long. 115°49' E.) ; U.S.N.M. No. 112116, 12 specimens, 

 49 to 63 mm., December 10, 1909, Tifu Bay, Bouru Island, Moluccas 

 Islands ; (all specimens collected by the Albatross expedition) . 



Description. — This species is comparatively more elongate and less 

 deep than all other members of the genus. This is particularly evident 

 in the smaller specimens. The following measurements were taken 

 from 1 specimens ranging from 36 to 63 mm. in length : Body depth 2.5 

 to 3.1 ; head length 2.3 to 2.5 ; head depth 3.4 to 4.0 ; length of caudal 

 peduncle 4.0 to 4.2, all in standard length. Eye 3.2 to 3.8 ; upper jaw 

 2.1 to 2.2 ; depth of caudal peduncle 2.5 to 3.0 ; snout 4.8 to 4.9, all in 

 length of head. 



The total number of gill rakers ranges in 11 specimens from 21 to 

 23 (table 3). 



Color in alcohol. — Head and body brownish; scattered brownish- 

 black, pepperlike spots on snout, top and sides of head, and on chin ; 

 three narrow blackish horizontal stripes on head and body ; a middor- 

 sal stripe extends from occiput to origin of spinous dorsal fin, appear- 

 ing faintly at base of spinous and soft dorsal fin and ending in a spot 

 at end of last ray of soft dorsal fin ; a dorsolateral stripe begins on each 

 side of snout, passing just above eye and through lateral line on an- 

 terior portion of body, and then to dorsolateral portion of caudal pe- 

 duncle, where it gradually fades and becomes obscure; the midbody 

 stripe begins at tip of snout, passes through middle of eye and extends 

 along midbody area to spot at midbase of caudal fin ; a faint stripe be- 

 gins at origin of anal, passing on each side of anal fin, and extends to 

 about the procurrent rays of caudal fin on the lowermost portion of 



