BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



APOGONICHTHYS AURITUS (Valenciennes) 



Apogon auritus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 443. Mau- 

 ritius. — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 23 

 (Tahiti and Yap).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 63, pi. 17, fig. 2 

 (Suez, Andamans, Massaua, Zanzibar). — Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 No. 7, 1877, p. 100 (Samoa). — Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, p. 344 (Port Darwin).— Day, Fauna Brit. India, 

 Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 499. — Thurston, Notes Pearl Fisher. Ceylon, 

 1890, p. 91 (Tuticorin). — Borsieri, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 

 ser. 3, vol. 1, 1904, p. 191 (Nocra on Daalac Island). — Pellegrin, Bull. 

 Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 10, 1904, p. 544 (Djibouti, Red Sea). — Weber, 

 Siboga Exped., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 232 (Kwandong Bay, Galawo 

 Straits, West New Guinea; Banda). 



Figure 2.— Buccal incubation, Amiidae: 



Amia bandanensis (Bleeker) Amia griffini Seale 



Amia novae-guineae (Valen- Amia laterale (Valenciennes) 



ciennes) Archamia gracilis (Bleeker) 

 Amia cypselurus (Weber) 



Amia lineolata (Cuvier) 

 Amia nolala (Houttuyn) 

 Amia atrogaster Smith and Rad- 

 cliffe 



Apogon (Apogonichthys) auritus Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 

 vol. 20, 1870, p. 709 (Koseir, Red Sea).— Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, 1876, p. 436 (Mauritius). — KossMANNand Rauber, Wiss. Ergebn. 

 Reise Kustengeb. Roth. Meers, vol.1, 1877, p. 7 (Red Sea). — Klunzinger, 

 Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 19 (Koseir). — Steindachner, Abh. Sencken- 

 berg. Naturf. Ges., vol. 25, 1900, p. 416 (Ternate). 



Apogonichthys auritus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 246 

 (copied). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 21 (Zanzibar). — Day, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 682 (Andamans). — Ogilby, Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. Queensland, vol. 21, 1908, p. 24 (Dunk Island and Bells Swamps). — 

 Fowler, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 22, 1925, p. 8 (Guam). — Fowler and 



