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24081. Labuandata Bay, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. February 21, 1908. Length 



42 mm. 

 24097. Great Tobea Island, Buton Strait. December 15, 1909. Length 47 mm. 



AMIA DOEDERLEINI (Jordan and Snyder) 



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

 p. 901, fig. 6. Nagasaki. 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2y 2 to 2%, width V/ % to 2. Snout 4 to 4^ 

 in head from snout tip; eye 2 to 2%, greater than snout or interorbi- 

 tal; maxillary reaches % in eye, expansion 2}/§ to 2^, length 2 to 2 x /% 

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

 interorbital 4 to 4%, very slightly convex; preopercle ridge entire, 

 edge finely serrate. Gill rakers 5+14, lanceolate, little longer than 

 gill filaments or Z Y /% in eye. 



Scales 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 2 above, 

 6 below, 3 or 4 predorsal, 3 rows on cheek; head naked, except cheeks 

 and opercles. Tubes in lateral line large, each well exposed and with 

 rather large crimped basal scale. Scales with 9 to 16 basal radiating 

 striae; 12 to 145 apical denticles, with as many as 8 transverse series 

 of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. VII-I, 9, i, third spine 2 to 2}{ in total head length, second ray 

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

 1)4, to \yii emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2}A to 2%; 

 pectoral V/z to 1%; ventral l^j to \%. 



Dull brown generally, little paler underneath. Dark brown line 

 along bases of dorsals. Second dark brown band from over eye back 

 along upper side of caudal peduncle to caudal base. Median dark 

 band from eye back to caudal base where forming black spot size of 

 pupil. Fourth dark band extends from below eye to pectoral and 

 then back along lower side of caudal peduncle to caudal base. Head 

 all more or less with soiled appearance. Iris dark gray. Fins all 

 brownish, soft dorsal and anal each with subbasal dark longitudinal 

 line. 



Originally described from four Japanese specimens and apparently 

 not since reported. Our materials definitely place it in the faunas of 

 both Formosa and the Philippines. 



One example. Mompog Island, vicinity Marinduque. March 3, 1909. Length 

 27 mm. 



Fourteen examples. Cataingan Bay, Masbate Island. April 18, 1908. Length 

 23 to 30 mm. 



8408 to 8410. Hokuho, Soo Wan, Formosa. January 29, 1910. Length 109 to 

 120 mm. (2184). Pearl color with brown stripes. First stripe median, 

 extends from between eyes, dividing around dorsal; second from snout, above 

 orbit to caudal base; median from snout tip interrupted by eye and ending in 

 blotch size of pupil at caudal base mainly above lateral line; fourth across 

 maxillary, under eye through pectoral base and along lower edge of caudal 

 peduncle; fifth short obscure stripe below pectoral. Spinous dorsal pink with 



