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dusky. Soft dorsal brighter, brown bar across base slightly oblique. Anal 

 vermilion, with brown basal bar as on soft dorsal. Caudal reddish dusky. 

 Paired fins pink, ventrals brighter. 



AMIA FUSCA (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Apogonfuscus Qxjot and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., pts. 8-9, Jan. 29— 



May 26, 1S25, p. 345. Guam. — Gunthlr, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 



1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 22 (East Indies and Fiji). 

 Amiafusca Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 



244, fig. 38 (Apia). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 159 



(Apia). 

 Apogon cupreus (Ehrenberg) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 159. 



Red Sea — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1S59, p. 237 (copied). 

 Apogon moluccensis Valenciennes, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 1, 



1832, p. 54. Amboina. — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 229 



(Kawa, west Ceram). 

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



p. 93 (Sumatra, Singapore, Banka, Cocos, Bawean, Bali, Celebes, Sangir, 



Timor, Ceram, Amboina, Goram). 

 ? Apogon guamensis Valenciennes, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 1, 



1832, p. 54. Guam. 

 Apogon chrysopomus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 7, 1854, 



p. 239. Macassar, Celebes. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 



1859, p. 240 (copied). — Karo-li, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, 



p. 152 (Singapore). 

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



p. 86 (Singapore, Bawean, Celebes, Amboina); vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (71) 



359, fig. 1. — Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 



(1907) p. 72 (Bacon). 

 Amia per caef or mis Gray, Cat. Fish. Gronow, vol. 2, 1854, p. 173. East 



Indies (On Gronow, Zoophylac, 1763, No. 273, pi. 9, fig. 2). 

 Amiasealei Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 191S, p. 20, fig. 9. 



Philippines. — Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 1922, 



p. 24 (Cebu). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 274 



(San Fernando, Santa Maria and types); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 



1928, p. 158, fig. 39 (Shortland Island). 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2}/ 2 to 2%, width 1% to 2. Snout 4 to 4K 

 in head; eye 23^ to 3, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary 

 reaches opposite eye center, expansion 2% in eye, length 2Ko to 23^ in 

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

 interorbital 4 to 43^, nearly level; preopercle ridge entire, edge 

 minutely serrate at all ages; preorbital edge entire. Gill rakers 6 + 14, 

 lanceolate, longer than gill filaments or 3 in eye. 



Scales 23 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 or 6 more on latter; 

 2 above, 6 below, 2 to 4 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek. Tubes in lateral 

 line large, simple, well exposed, with crenulate basal scale. Scales 

 with 13 to 18 basal radiating striae; 102 to 157 apical denticles, with 

 1 to 3 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine and apical 

 obsolete or anastomosing irregularly. 



D. VII-I, 9, i, third spine \% to 1% in total head length, first 

 branched ray 1% to l%\ A. II, 8, i, second spine 2% to 3, second 



