APOGONID FISHES OF THE mDO-PACIFIC — LACHNER 591 



ARCHAMIA LINEOLATA (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



Plate 17, a 



Apogon Uneolatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828, p. 160 (anal fin rays, II, 14; 



type locality, Red Sea). 

 Apogon macropterus Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828, p. 160 (anal fln rays II, 



13; Java). 

 Apogon zeyloniciis Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1829, p. 491 (anal fin rays II, 14; 



Ceylon). 

 Apogon argenteus Valenciennes, 1832, p. 60 (anal fin rays II, 14; Vanicolo). 

 Archamia bleekeri Gunther, 1859, p. 245 (anal fin rays II, 14 to 17; Amboyna) 



= Apogon fucatus Cantor (?), 1850, p. 986. 



Specimens studied. — U.S.N.M. No. 57944, 5 specimens, 18 to 21 mm., 

 Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands (E. A. Mearns) ; U.S.N.M. 

 Nos. 112117-112128, 23 specimens, 41 to 64 mm., 1908-09, East 

 Indies and Philippine Islands (Albatross expeditions) ; U.S.N.M. No. 

 126601, 7 specimens, 40 to 53 mm., 1902, Apia, Samoa (Jordan and 

 Kellogg). 



Color in alcohol. — General coloration about the same as in fucata., 

 except that the circular black spot at the midbase of the caudal fin is 

 smaller and more intensely developed. Its greatest diameter measures 

 about 2.0 to 2.5 in the least depth of the caudal peduncle. This spot 

 is proportionately smaller in younger specimens, measuring about 2.5 

 to 3.5 in the least depth of the caudal peduncle. 



Range. — Red Sea, East Africa to East Indies, Philippine Islands, 

 Samoa, and probably other groups of islands of Oceania. 



Table 2. — Frequency distribution of the number of soft anal fin rays for species of 



Archamia 



Remarks. — For some years Archxmiia fucata has been considered 

 synonymous with Arc/iamia lineolata. Bleeker's account (1874, p. 72) 

 and figure (1876-77, tab. 346, perc. tab. 68, fig. 2), as well as that of 

 Weber and de Beaufort (1929, p- 347), confound even a third species 



