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to opercle edge, similar one along upper maxillary across to pectoral base. 

 Pale stripes on top of snout and head. Fins very pale scarlet or orange. 

 Brownish bar across second dorsal and anal bases. Other fins without markings. 



AMIA ENDEKATAENIA (Bleeker) 



Apogon endekataenia Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 2, 1852, 

 p. 449. Banka or Lepar. — Pellegrin, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 

 10, 1904, p. 544 (Djibouti, Red Sea). — Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 

 vol. 21, 1908, p. 23 (Green Island, Cairns and Dunk Island). — Weber, 

 Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 225 (Nusa Laut). 



Amia endekataenia Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 

 85, pi. (32) 310, fig. 2 (Singapore, Banka, Bawean, Java). — Evermann 

 and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fishes, vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 73 (Bacon). 



Apogon novemfasciatus (not Cuvier) Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., pt. 1, 

 1842, p. 2, pi. 2, fig. 2. 



Apogon schlegeli Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Nieu. Jap.), vol. 26, 

 1854, p. 55 (on Schlegel). 



Apogon schlegeli Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1901, 

 p. 900, fig. 5 (Nagasaki). 



Apogon fasciatus (not Shaw) Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1S59, 

 p. 241 (India, Amboyna, Fiji). — Kner, Reise Novara, Zool., vol. 1, pt. 

 5, 1865, p. 43 (Puynipet, Tahiti, Hong Kong, Java). — Klunzinger, 

 Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 712 (Red Sea). 



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

 (part). 



A mia wilsoni Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1918, p. 22, fig. 

 10. Philippines; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 274 (types; 

 Philippines). 



Depth 2%; head 2%, width 2. Snout 4 in head; eye 2%, greater 

 than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite eye center, 

 expansion 3 in eye, length 2}/% in head; teeth in villiform bands, nar- 

 row in jaws, on vomer and palatines; interorbital 4*4, level; preopercle 

 ridge entire, edge finely serrated. Gill rakers 7 + 16, lanceolate, 

 longer than gill filaments or 2% in eye; 4 above and 4 below 

 rudimentary. 



Scales 22 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 2 above, 

 6 below, 4 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek. Lateral line complete. Scales 

 with 15 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 70 to 86, with 2 or 3 

 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. VIII-I, 9, i, third spine V/ 8 in head, first ray 1%; A. II, 8, i, 

 second spine 2%, second ray 2}/^; caudal 1 V3, emarginate; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2 x /i\ pectoral \%; ventral 1%. 



Pale brown, slightly paler below. Narrow median blackish line 

 from interorbital to spinous dorsal, bordering base of each dorsal and 

 then as single median line on postdorsal. Each side of snout above 

 narrow line extends up over interorbital close above lateral line, fades 

 out on caudal peduncle above. Blackish band from snout tip to eye 

 and median on side to caudal base. Conspicuous blackish spot on 

 caudal base just above lateral line about half size of pupil. Fourth 



