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narrower than pale interspaces. Iris silvery white, with gray above. 

 Edge of gill opening broadly neutral dusky, with underlaid appearance. 

 Isthmus and chest dusted with dark brown. Spinous dorsal whitish 

 basally, terminal % neutral dusky or blackish. Soft dorsal gray 

 brown, with base narrowly pale to whitish. Caudal very pale 

 brownish. Other fins whitish, paired fins with rather broad neutral 

 dusky bases. Some examples show all the fins, excepting the 

 pectorals, neutral dusky terminally. 

 Known only from the Philippines. 



22148. Cebu market. August 28, 1909. Length 59 mm. Male with buccal ova. 

 Four examples (D. 5360). Manila Bay. February 8, 1909. Length 25 to 



59 mm. 

 5378 and 5379. Oton market, Iloilo. March 30, 1908. Length 66 to 69 nun. 

 4453 (D. 5479). Surigao Strait, Samar. July 29, 1909. Length 58 mm. 

 Thirteen examples (D. 5442). West coast of Luzon. March 11, 1909. Length 



37 to 89 mm. (Type, No. 68403 U. S. N. M.) 

 One example. West coast Mindanao. February 6, 1908. Length 49 mm. 



(D. 5131). 



APOGONICHTHYS BRACHYGRAMMUS (Jenkins) 



Fowleria brachygrammus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 

 (1903), p. 448, fig. 20. Honolulu.— Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. 

 Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 211 (Waikiki and Hilo).— 

 Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, p. 780, fig. 5. 



Foa brachygramma Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 2, 1903 

 (1905), p. 617 (off Molokai and between Maui and Lanai in 23 to 73 fath- 

 oms). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1906, p. 526 (Hawaii) ; 

 Copeia, No. 112, Nov. 20, 1922, p. 83 (Hawaii). 



Amia brachygramma Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 162 

 (Pearl City, Oahu; type of Fowleria brachygra?nmus) . 



Depth 2}4 to 2%; head 2% to 2J/£, width 2}/ 8 to 2%. Snout 4 to 

 4% in head from snout tip ; eye 3)^ to 33^, greater than snout or inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye edge, expansion 1% to 

 1%, length lj/g to 2 in head; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, on vomer 

 and palatines; interorbit>tl 43^ to 4%, nearly level; preopercle edge 

 and ridge entire. Gill rakers 2 + 10 or 11, lanceolate, 2}/% in eye. 



Scales 9 tubes in upper section of lateral line, 8 to 12 pores in lower 

 section to caudal base and two more on latter; one scale above lateral 

 line, 5 or 6 below, 4 or 5 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek. Scales with 9 

 basal radiating striae; 80 to 136 apical denticles with 4 transverse 

 series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. VIII, I, 9, i, third spine 1% to \% in total head length, first ray 

 \% to 2J/g; A. II, 8, i, second spine 3J/g to 33^, second ray V/% to 2; 

 caudal 1% to lj^, rounded; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; 

 pectoral \% to \%; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Uniformly brown, in life with 5 dark vertical bands, each narrower 

 than pale interspaces, less distinct with age. Iris pale. Fins all paler. 

 Spinous dorsal and ventral dusky. 



