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dark line from lower eye edge to lower surface of caudal peduncle. 

 Fins pale, except dark shade on spinous dorsal terminally. Upper 

 and lower caudal edges slightly dusky. 



Red Sea, East Indies, Philippines, China, Japan, Queensland, Poly- 

 nesia. Described above from the type oi Amiawilsoni. 



47505 A. N. S. P. Philippines. Length 71 mm. Type of Amia wilsoni. 



AMIA ANGUSTATA Smith and Radcliffe 



Amia angustata Smith and Radcliffe, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1911, 

 p. 253, fig. 1. Malanipa Island, east of Zamboanga. 



Depth 3; head 2%, width 2. Snout 4% to 4% in head; eye 2% 

 to 3Ko, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches % to eye, 

 expansion 2% to 2% in eye, length 1% to 2 in head; teeth villi- 

 form, in bands in jaws, on vomer and palatines; interorbital 5% to 

 6, level; preopercle ridge entire, edge minutely serrated. Gill rakers 

 5 + 14, lanceolate, nearly twice length of gill filaments or 234 m eye. 



Scales 25 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on latter; 

 2 above, 6 below, 4 predorsal, 3 rows on cheek; head naked, except 

 cheeks and opercles. Tubes of lateral line large, well exposed, each 

 with broad crimped basal scale, at least in anterior part of course. 

 Scales with 10 to 12 basal radiating striae; 67 to 93 apical denticles 

 with 2 or 3 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. VII-I, 9, i, third spine 1% to 2Ko in head, second ray 1^ to 1%; 

 A. II, 8, i, second spine 2% to 3, first ray 1% to \%; caudal lj^ to 

 \%, slightly emarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2}{; 

 pectoral 13^; ventral 1% to \%. 



Pale brown generally, nearly whitish. Dark brown band along 

 each side of occiput to base of soft dorsal. Second band from over eye 

 back along upper surface of caudal peduncle to base of upper caudal 

 rays. Median lateral dark band from snout through eye to caudal base 

 medially, where ending in round blackish spot little smaller than 

 pupil. Third dark band from infraorbital back to pectoral base 

 and along lower surface of caudal peduncle to caudal base, faint 

 posteriorly. Iris with silvery white bordering lines to dark median 

 band and some gray above and below. Fins all pale to whitish, 

 soft dorsal and anal each with subbasal grayish longitudinal band. 



Only known from the Philippines. 



24047. Malanipa Island, east of Zamboanga. September 8, 1909. Length 



85 mm. (Type No. 68399 U.S.N.M.) 

 23374. Sipadan Island, off Borneo. September 28, 1909. Length 70 mm. 



AMIA FASCIATA (Shaw) 



Mullusfasciatus Shaw, Journ. Voy. New South Wales, White, 1790, p. 268, 

 pi., fig. 1. New South Wales. — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 621 

 (on Shaw). 



Apogon fasciatus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 241 

 (Australia, Port Jackson). — Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



