FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 73 



Makemo, Mangareva, Papeete, Laysan, Samoa, Apia, Shortland Island, 

 Fat6, Raiatea, Tubuai, Nukuhiva, French Frigates Shoal, Johnston Island, 

 Guam, Society Islands, Apiang, Maui, type of Apogon snyderi). 



Amia fraenata Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 

 (1907), p. 71 (Bacon). 



Apogon vittiger Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 1, 1833, p. 32. Mauri- 

 tius. — Regan, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 12, ser. 2, 1907, p. 225 

 (Coetivy, Seychelles Group). 



Apogon melanorhijnchos Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, 

 p. 255. Wahai, North Ceram. 



Apogon melanorhynchus Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 227 

 (Nusa Laut and Low Key). 



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

 p. 90 (Singapore, Bawean, Celebes, Ternate, Buru, Ceram, Amboina); 

 vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (65) 343, fig. 1. 



Apogon endekataenia (not Bleeker) Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 

 59, pi. 16, fig. 1. 



Apogon fasciatus (not Shaw) Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 494 

 (part). 



Apogon snyderi Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 



1902 (1903), p. 180. Honolulu and Hilo; vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), pi. 

 36 (type). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1906, p. 527 

 (Hawaiian Islands). 



Amia snyderi Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, pt. 1, 



1903 (1905), p. 214 (Honolulu and Hilo). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. 

 Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 237 (Apia and Pago Pago). 



Apogon menesemus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 (1903), 



p. 448, fig. 19. Honolulu. — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1906, p. 527 (Hawaiian Islands). 

 Apogon evanidus Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 



12, 1904, p. 518. Padang, Sumatra; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1906. p. 527 (type). 

 Apogon holotaemia Regan, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, No. 2, 



1905, p. 319 (331). Muscat, in 15 to 30 fathoms. 

 Amia bifasciata (not Ruppell) Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, June 18, 1918, p. 



63 (Philippines). 



Depth 3 to 3^; head 2^ to 2%, width 2 to 2%. Snout 4 to 4J/g 

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

 reaches y 2 to Yz in eye, expansion 2% to 2% in eye, length 2 to 2}/% 

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

 bony interorbital 5 to 634, nearly level; preopercle ridge and edge 

 finely serrated, also lower edge of narrow infraorbitals. Gill rakers 

 4 + 13, of which 2 above and 4 below rudimentary, others lanceolate 

 or equal gill filaments, which 3 in head. 



Scales 22 or 23 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 2 above, 6 below, 4 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek to preopercle 

 ridge; head, except cheeks and opercles, naked. Scales with 10 or 11 

 basal radiating striae; 10 to 90 short apical denticles in 1 or 2 series; 

 circuli moderate. 



D. VII-I, 9, i, fourth spine 2}/ b to 2% in head, first ray \ 2 Ato\%; 

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



