FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 81 



One example. Port Banalacan, Marinduque. February 23, 1909. Length 32 

 mm. 



Four examples. Port Jamelo, Luzon. July 13, 190S. Length 28 or 29 mm. 



Four examples. Rasa, Mantaguin Bay, Palawan Island. April 1, 1909. Length 

 33 to 34 mm. 



Thirty-five examples. Saboon Island, Ragay Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon, March 

 10, 1909. Length 20 to 30 mm. 



Eleven examples. Tataan Islands, Tawi Tawi Group. February 21, 1908. 

 Length 34 to 39 mm. (274.) (Type No. 70244, U.S.N.M.) Body translu- 

 cent, general color dusky above with median narrow black line. Axial line 

 of opalescent green margined with blackish above, ending in a brilliant scarlet 

 blotch larger than pupil at caudal base. Purplish stripe behind eye across 

 opercle, bordered on either side by black. Chin and nose black. Top of 

 head dusky with short silvery olive stripes. Lower head and breast white. 

 First dorsal dusky, with first spine blackish. Second dorsal dusky, red brown 

 bar across middle somewhat nearer base. Anal similar to soft dorsal with 

 brown bar nearer base continued on lower edge of caudal peduncle. Caudal 

 dusky. Paired fins slightly dusky. Iris dark. 



One example. Tomahu Island. December 11, 1909. Length 32 mm. 



AMIA AMBOINENSIS (Bleeker) 



Apogon amboinensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 5, 1853, 

 p. 329. Amboina.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 234 

 (copied). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 19 (Zanzibar). — Karoli, 

 Termesz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 152 (Singapore; Kobe). — 

 Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk., Amsterdam, 1913, p. 115 (Waui waige River, 

 Waigui). 



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

 p. 90 (Singapore, Biliton, Bawean, Bouro, Amboina, Goram); vol. 8, 

 1876-77, pi. (68) 346, fig. 1.— Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, 

 p. 158 (compiled). 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2% to 2]/ 2 , width 2]/ 2 to 2#o. Snout 4 to 

 4^ in head; eye 3 to 3%, greater than snout or interorbital; max- 

 illary reaches x / 2 to % in eye, expansion 2 to 2}{, length 2}/% to 234 

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

 interorbital 5 to 53^ , nearly level; preopercle ridge entire, edge finely 

 and feebly serrated. Gill rakers 6 + 16, lanceolate, little longer than 

 gill filaments or half of eye. 



Scales 22 to 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 to 4 more on 

 latter; 3 above, 6 below, 6 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek; head naked, 

 except cheeks and opercles. Lateral line of tubes well exposed, 

 simple, slender, and each with small basal scale. Scales with 8 to 10 

 basal radiating striae; 16 to 53 apical denticles, with 3 or 4 trans- 

 verse series of basal elements; circuli moderate. 



D. VI-I, 9, 1, third spine V/% to 2 in total head length, first ray 

 1% to \%; A. II, 8, 1, second spine 23^ to 2%, first ray 2}/ s to 2}/ b ; 

 caudal 1^8 to 134 > deeply emarginate behind; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% to 3; pectoral 1^ to \%; ventral 1% to 2. 



Pale brown above, inclining to whitish below, with silvery white 

 reflections on side of head and trunk. Iris white, except as crossed 



