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15506, 15508. Caracaran, Batan Island. June S, 1909. Length 100 to 103 mm. 

 (1439). Head pearl gray, with orange brown shades. Pair of dark streaks 

 across interorbital continuing more or less brokenly into pale line running 

 either side of dorsal base, interlacing more or less across top of opercle. 

 Dusky blotch on opercle not distinct. Round black blotch at lateral line. 

 Chin and throat dusky. First dorsal spines more or less silvery, membranes 

 slightly olivaceous. Second dorsal very pale olive, with 2 irregular darker 

 subbasal bands. Caudal pale, membranes with 5 or 6 olive spots, most dis- 

 tinct medially on fin; inner rays somewhat reddish, membranes olivaceous; 

 darker band at base. Pectorals pale reddish. 



8316, 8590, 16577, 16578, 23193, 23194. Catbalogan, Samar Island. April 15, 

 1908. Length 55 to 75 mm. (23193, male with buccal ova). 



Two examples. Catbalogan. April 15, 1908. Length 36 to 39 mm. 



Eleven examples. Catbalogan. April 16, 1908. Length 27 to 67 mm. 



18393 to 18396. Cebu market. April 4, 1908. Length 88 to 100 mm. 



24068, 24069. Cebu market. August 27, 1909. Length 66 to 70 mm. 



(D. 5360). Limbones Cove, Manila Bay. February 8, 1909. Length 65 to 71 

 mm. Two examples. 



4487 (D. 5164). Observation Island. S. 82° W. 8 miles (5° 01' 40" N., 119° 

 52' 20" E.), Sulu Archipelago. February 24, 1908. Length 58 mm. 



14, 23821. Pandanon Island, between Cebu and Bohol. March 23, 1909. 

 Length 80 to 89 mm. 



8316. Subig Bay, southern Luzon. January 7, 1908. Length 55 mm. 



23422. Tutu Bay, Jolo Island, first anchorage. September 19, 1909. Length 

 98 mm. (1960). On top of head and back dusky olive generally. Side of 

 body translucent pearl gray, probably darker in life. Narrow white stripe close 

 before spinous dorsal. Black stripe begins just behind point of snout, divides 

 between eyes and continues into broader white stripe at nape, latter running 

 along below dorsal base and ends at caudal base. Pale stripe from snout tip 

 through eye above nearly to angle of gill-opening. Similar one across pre- 

 maxillary through lower part of eye not extending to opercle, on which black 

 or dusky median blotch. Chin and lower jaw slaty. Spinous dorsal mem- 

 branes hyaline olive, spines silvery anteriorly. Soft dorsal and anal slightly 

 dusky, latter with somewhat pinkish shade. Caudal pale, with few small olive 

 spots in membranes and black blotch at caudal base chiefly above lateral 

 line. Paired fins hyaline pink, very pale. 



Two examples. Danawan and Si Amil Islands, vicinity of Darvel Bay, Borneo, 

 Dutch East Indies. September 27, 1909. Length 40 to 44 mm. 



Eight examples. Basa Reef, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 17, 1909. Length 

 22 to 39 mm. 



1 example. Great Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length 52 mm. 



AMIA CYANOSOMA (Bleeker) 



Apogon cyanosoma Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 5, 1853, p. 

 71. Lawajong, Solor Island. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 

 1859, p. 242 (copied). — Playpair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 20 (Zanzi- 

 bar). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 714 

 (Koseir, Red Sea). 



Apogon (Amia) cyanosoma Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 20 

 (Koseir). 



Amia cyanosoma Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 

 87 (Solor); vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (76) 354, fig. 2. 



Amia magnifica Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, 1909, p. 507. 

 Balabac Island. 



