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to last anal rays basally. Fins all pale brownish, spinous dorsal 

 largely dark terminally, subbasal longitudinal brown band on soft 

 dorsal, another on anal, caudal edged narrowly with brown above and 

 below and ventrals terminally brown. Most examples show median 

 dark lateral band with blackish spot in dark area of caudal base. 

 Others with short dark postocular bar from upper part of iris, but not 

 extending beyond head. 



East Indies, Philippines, Australia. Our materials all agree with 

 the account of this species as described and discussed by McCulloch. 



Eleven specimens. Batan Island. June 5, 1909. Length 25 to 49 mm. 

 Three specimens. Batan Island, July 22, 1909. Length 24 to 42 mm. 

 16057. Canimo Island, near Daet. June 15, 1909. Length 25 to 64 mm. 36 



examples. 

 Sixteen examples. Gubat Bay, Luzon. June 23, 1909. Length 23 to 40 mm. 



5315. Jolo Reefs. March 6, 1908. Length 86 mm. (Type of Amia robusta, 

 68400 U.S.N.M.) 



5316. Jolo Reefs. March 6, 1908. Length 56 mm. 



Six specimens. Maculabo Island, east coast Luzon. June 14, 1909. Length 



22 to 43 mm. 

 One example. Mahinog, Camiguin Island, between Samar and Leyte. August 



2, 1909. Length ? (head only). From torch fisherman. 

 22406. Nogas Point, Panay. February 4, 1908. Length 18 to 22 mm. 2 examples. 

 Fifteen examples. Sablayan, Mindoro Island. December 13, 1908. Length 



26 to 45 mm. 

 One example. Sirinao Island reef, southern Palawan. December 31, 1908. 



Length 35 mm. 

 20118. Ulugan Bay, near mouth of Baheli River, Palawan. December 28, 1908. 



Length 68 mm. 

 Fifty-one examples. Basa Reef, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 17, 1909. 



Length 17 to 37 mm. 



AMIA AROUBIENSIS (Hombron and Jacquinot) 



A-pogon aroubiensis Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 3, 



1853, p. 31, pi. 1. fig. 1. Aroub, Malaysia. 

 Amia aroubiensis Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906). 



p. 241, fig. 35 (Apia and Pago Pago, Samoa). — Radcliffe, Proc. U. S. Nat, 



Mus., vol. 41, 1911, p. 25, pi. 22 (Tutu Bay, Philippines, Celebes, Apia).— 



Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 157 (Tubuai, Nukuhiva, 



Raiatea, Apia, Mangareva). 

 Apogonfasciata aroubiensis McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 3, No. 



3, 1915, p. 118 (Murray Island; Suva, Fiji). 

 Apogon fasciatus (not White) Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 1 



pt. 1, 1873, p. 19, pi. 20, fig. A (part). 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2}/ 2 to 2%, width V/ s to 2%. Snout 4K 

 to 4^2 in head from snout tip; eye 2% to 3, about twice snout or 

 interorbital; maxillary reaches % to % in eye or to or little beyond 

 hind pupil edge, expansion 2}/i to 2% in eye, length 1% to 2}/$ in 

 head; bands of minute villiform teeth in jaws, on vomer and palatines; 

 interorbital 4^ to 6, nearly level; preopercle ridge entire, edge 

 minutely serrate; preorbital entire. Gill rakers 5 + 16, lanceolate, 

 twice gill filaments or 2% in eye. 



