NO. 12-10. 



CARDINAL FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 907 



12. ARCHAMIA KAGOSHIMANA DOderlein. 



Apogon {Archutiiia) umrropteni Steind.\chn£r, Fi^^ohe Jai.ans, JI, 1888 p S 

 Kago.shiina (not of Bleeker). ^ ' ' '- ' ' i ■ "' 



Apoyon higo^himaNHs Dooerlkix MS. i„ Stein.lachner, Fische Japan< 11 188-:! 

 p. :i ' ' "•' 



Head -Jh depth a little .orreater; I). VI-I, 9; A. II, 1^5; scales ^(3 

 Eye 3 in head. 



Preopercle very finely serrate; maxillary to posterior part of eye 

 Dorsal spines very slender, the second not quite half head. Pectoral 

 as long as caudal, reaching- sixth soft ray of anal; ventral roachin'o- 

 front of anal. ^ 



Body reddish, strewn with violet points. No spot at })ase of caudal 

 nor on scapula; tins pale. (Steindachner.) 



Kagoshinia, island of Kiusiu, a single specimen, sent to Dr. Stein- 

 dachner by Dr. Doderlein, not seen by us. Notwithstanding its lack 

 of the conspicuous caudal spot characteristic of Archa^jda vuwrovtera 

 (Bleeker), of the East Indies, Dr. Steindachner does not feel warranted 

 in separatmg it as a distinct species. In view of the permanence of 

 this mark, and of the essential difference of the Japanese shore fauna, 

 from that of the East Indies, we adopt the name suggested l)y Dr! 

 Doderlein. (Name from Kiiijoxirniui^ " basket island.") 



4. PARAMIA Bleeker. 

 Chenodlpterm L.vcepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, p. 539 {mltalnx, macrodon 

 etc., restricted by Cuvier an.l Valenciennes, in 1828, to mucrodon- but the 

 first species mentioned {^nltatri.,) , more properly the type, is a siJecies of 

 another group. ) 

 Paramia Bleeker, Kevision Apogonini, 1874, p. 74 {macrodon), the name Chel- 

 lodipterm being transferred to Potnutomm mUatrir.) 

 _ Body oblong, covered with rather large, deciduous scales; teeth on 

 ]aws, vomer, and palatines, some of them in both jaws strong, canine- 

 like; operculum without spine; preopercle with a double maro-in the 

 posterior edge serrated; eye large. Dorsal tins separated, the rays 

 yi-I, 10. Anal II, l»; caudal forked. Tropical seas. Small fishes 

 differing from Ajjo(/on chiefly in the presence of canines in the jaws. 

 (Ttapa, near; Amia, a non binomial name applied bv Gronow to 

 Ajjo(/o/i.) 



13. PARAMIA QUINQUELINEATA ( Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



CheUodipterus quinquelhmitn^ Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Xat. Poiss II 

 1828, p. 167, Society Islands.— ?Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische p ' 89' 

 Red Sea.-LEssoN, Zool. Voy. Duperr., II, p. 237.-Bleeker, Amboy'na and 

 Leram, p. 2o2, Amboyna.— Gunther, Cat. Fish., I, 1859, p. 248, Ambovna- 

 Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 22.-D..Y, Fishes of India, p. 66. -Steindachner' 

 Fische Japans, II, 1883, p. 4, Kagoshima. 



Paramia quinqueUneata Bleeker, Atlas, Percoid., I, 1876, p. 105, pi. xlviii ti<:r o 

 Sumatra, Nias, Batu, Singapore, Bangka, Cocos, Java, Celebes, Sangir.'solor' 

 Halmahera, Ternata, Batjan, Amboyna, Goram. 



