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

 p. 94, pi. (23) 301, fig. 4 (Singapore, Bawean, Batjan). — Evekmann and 

 Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 74 (Bacon). 



Depth 2% to 2%\ head 2j/£ to 2%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 3% 

 to 4 ^s in head from snout tip; eye 2% to 3, greater than snout or 

 interorbital; maxillary reaches % to 3^ in eye, expansion 1% to 2, 

 length 2 to 23^ in head; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, on vomer 

 and palatines; interorbital 43^ to 4%, nearly level; preopercle ridge 

 entire, edge minutely denticulate. Gill rakers 7 + 17, lanceolate, of 

 which 3 uppermost and 3 lowermost rudiments, longer than gill 

 filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 21 or 22 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 

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

 muzzle, including maxillary, suborbitals and whole top of head naked. 

 Lateral line with enlarged tubes, each with small basal scale. Scales 

 with 10 to 17 basal radiating striae; 64 to 109 apical denticles, with 

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



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

 1% to l3/£; A. II, 8, i, second spine 2^ to 2%, first ray 1% to \%; 

 caudal \}4 to 134, emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% 

 to 3; pectoral 1% to \ 2 A\ ventral 1% to \%. 



Brown, paler on under surface of head and abdomen in which region 

 also silvery white tint. Five whitish horizontal lines begin on head, 

 also all less in width than darker interspaces; first above eye begins 

 in middle of interorbital where forming a V-shaped mark; second 

 above eye and back toward upper edge of caudal peduncle; third 

 on upper side of snout through eye, broadens on body, back to middle 

 of upper half of caudal base; fourth from lower side of snout through 

 eye back to middle of lower half of caudal base, broadens on body 

 and broken as series of whitish blotches; fifth from end of maxillary 

 to caudal base and back along side of abdomen. Iris whitish. Fins 

 all pale or gray, membranes of spinous dorsal dusky. 



East Indies, Philippines. 



Three examples. Beach at village near Chase Head, Endeavor Strait, Palawan. 

 December 22, 1908. Length 38 to 42 mm. 



16579, 23195. Catbalogan, Samar Island. April 15, 1908. Length 42 to 49 mm. 



Three examples. Cebu market. March 20, 1909. Length 45 to 52 mm. 



One example. Cebu market. March 28, 1909. Length 51 mm. 



Fourteen examples. Cebu market. August 28, 1909. Length 46 to 57 mm. 



Five examples. Mactan Island. August 31, 1909. Length 32 to 43 mm. 



Three examples. Malcochin Harbor, Linapacan Island. December 19, 1908. 

 Length 34 to 39 mm. (948). Bright silvery gray, crossed by bright orange 

 brown stripes; one through eye and median on side to caudal; similar one 

 from snout below eye to caudal; narrower stripe from pectoral base along anal 

 base uniting on lower edge of caudal peduncle; one from snout above eye 

 following outline of back, ends at caudal base; shorter stripe below, behind 



