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Light brown, paler below, side of trunk and head with silvery- 

 sheen. Deep brown median lateral band from snout tip, through eye 

 to caudal and out over fin medially. Another deep brown band 

 above medial from above opercle to upper surface of caudal peduncle, 

 narrower. Iris pale or whitish with neutral gray above, except where 

 crossed by medial dark lateral band. Fins all pale brownish, dorsals 

 slightly dusted with deeper brown; soft dorsal and anal each with 

 deep brown subbasal longitudinal line or narrow band, extending little 

 outward or posteriorly on fins. 



Philippines, China, Japan. 



Six examples (D. 5361). Corregidor Light, S. 89° W., 7.2 miles (14° 24' 15" 

 N., 120° 41' 30" E.), Manila Bay, Luzon. February 9, 1909. Length 65 to 

 80 mm. 



AMIA KALLOPTERA (Bleeker) 



Apogon kallopterns Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Norland. (Manado), vol. 1, 

 1856, p. 33. Manado, Celebes. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 

 1, 1859, p. 241 (copied). — Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1916, 

 p. 168 (Durban, Natal). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., 

 vol, 1, 1917, p. 340 (compiled). — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 

 21, 1927, p. 519 (Natal coast). 



Amia kalloplerus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 89 

 (Celebes and Sangir); vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (59) 337, fig. 2. 



Amia kalloptera Jordan and Richardson, Bull.B ur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 

 (1908), p. 255 (Fuga Island). — Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, June 1918, p. 63 

 (Philippines). 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2% to 2}/ 2 , width 2 to 2K- Snout 3% to 4 

 in head; eye 2% to 33^, 1 to 1 % in snout or greater in young, greater 

 than interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite eye center, expansion 

 2}i to 3 in eye, length 2]/ h to 2% in head; bands of fine villiform 

 teeth in jaws, on vomer and palatines; interorbital 4% to 5, nearly 

 level; preopercle ridge and edge denticulate. Gill rakers 5-fl4, 

 of which 2 or 3 uppermost and 4 lowermost rudimentary tubercles; 

 longest little greater than gill filaments or 2 in eye. 



Scales 23 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 or 7 more out over 

 latter; 3 above, 7 below, 5 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek to preopercle 

 ridge. Tubes in lateral line simple, rather large and well exposed, 

 each with crimped basal scale. Scales with 13 to 21 basal radiating 

 striae; 93 to 112 apical denticles, with 1 to 7 transverse series of basal 

 elements; circuli fine. 



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

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

 caudal l}£ to 1J4. moderately emarginate behind; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2}/i to 2%; pectoral \% to 1)4,', ventral 1}4 to 1%. 



Brown generally, little paler below. On back and sides above each 

 scale more or less edged with darker brown to form reticulated pattern. 

 Diffuse dark brown band, at first narrow along side of snout and 

 through eye, broadens on costal region to about % diameter of eye 



