FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 75 



13834, 13835, 23111, 23112, 23291, 23634, 24008. Powati Harbor, Makyau Island, 

 Molucca Passage. November 28, 1909. Length 74 to 93 mm. 



AMI A COMPRESSA Smith and Radcliffe 



Amia compressa Smith and Radcliffe, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 

 1911, p. 246, pis. 20-21. Port Matalvi, west coast of Luzon; Quinalasag 

 Island, east coast of Luzon; Philippines; Borneo; Moluccas. — Fowler, 

 Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 157 (Shorthand Island). 



Amia fasriata compressa McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 3, pt. 3, 

 1915, p. 118 (Malay Archipelago and Bougainville Island, Solomons). 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2% to 2%, width 1% to 2. Snout 4 to 5 

 in head from snout tip; eye 23^ to 2%, much greater than snout or 

 interorbital; m axillary reaches opposite eye center, expansion 2% to 

 2% in e3 7 e, length 1% to 2 in head; teeth minute, in villiform bands 

 in' jaws, on vomer and palatines; interorbital 3% to 4, nearly level; 

 preopercle ridge entire, edge finely denticulate: preorbital entire. 

 Gill rakers 8 + 19, lanceolate, little longer than gill filaments or 2}4 

 in eye. 



Scales 23 or 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 or 5 more on 

 latter; 2 above, 6 below, 4 or 5 predorsal; 2 rows on cheek. Tubes 

 in lateral line large, simple, well exposed, each with small basal scale. 

 Scales with 10 to 12 basal radiating striae; 80 to 125 apical denticles, 

 with 1 or 2 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. VI-I, 9, i, third spine 1^ to 2 in total head length, first 

 branched ray 1}{ to \ Y A; A. II, 9, i (spines abnormally absent), 

 second spine 2]/ z to 2%, first branched ray 1% to V/g] caudal l 1 ^ to 

 134, little emarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle l 7 /s to 

 2; pectoral l 1 ^ to 1%; ventral \y 2 to 1%. 



Pale brown generally, slightly lighter below, also with brassy on 

 sides and abdomen. Head often little more brownish than body and 

 bright reflections on opercle. Iris pale yellowish to brownish, with 

 neutral gray to slaty. Head and body with six broad blackish brown 

 longitudinal bands; uppermost begins at middle of interorbital, 

 extends along predorsal, each side of dorsal bases and along upper 

 surface of caudal peduncle medially; second band greatly broader, 

 bifurcate anteriorly and fusing below spinous dorsal; third band 

 similarly broad, from eye to middle of caudal base; fourth band from 

 little below eye, narrower than two above, includes pectoral base then 

 to bases of lower caudal rays; fifth and sixth bands paler and succes- 

 sively narrower, along lower side of abdomen till above anal fin. 

 Bifurcation of second longitudinal band often appears broken below 

 front of spinous dorsal in lower branch. Bands also break as several 

 small spots at caudal base. Fins all pale brownish; spinous dorsal 

 with diffuse dusky brown oblique bar from origin to behind end of 

 third spine; soft dorsal and anal with basal dusky streak, upper or 

 dorsal less marked or only deeply colored posteriorly, at which point 



