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by dark band from snout tip to eye and back along median body 

 axis to caudal base. At last medially rounded black spot size of 

 pupil. Second dark line, narrower, extends from suprascapula along 

 lateral line and ending below soft dorsal. Besides dark postocular 

 band two dusky bars radiate from lower hind eye edge down over 

 cheek. Head also more or less sprinkled with dark brown dots or 

 specks. Body along each dorsal fin base with narrow dusky line. 

 An underlaid dull brown line along lower side of tail longitudinally. 

 Another from base of last dorsal spine back to base of last dorsal 

 ray. Fins all pale to whitish, front edge of spinous dorsal dusky 

 and soft dorsal and anal each with brown longitudinal band, that 

 of soft dorsal further from base of fin. 



Zanzibar, East Indies, Philippines. Recorded from Japan by 

 Karoli. 



Two examples. Nonucan River, Camp Overton, Mindanao. August 6, 1909. 



Length 57 to 65 mm. 

 One example. River, brackish water, Port Dupon, Leyte. March 17, 1909. 



Length 37 mm. 



AMIA LATERALE (Valenciennes* 



Apogon lateralis Valenciennes, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 1, 

 1832, p. 58. Vanicolo. — Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Cherbourg, 

 ser. 2, vol. 2, 1866, p. 145 (Madagascar). 



Amia lateralis Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), 

 p. 246, fig. 40 (Apia, Samoa). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. 

 Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 254 (Cuyo) .— Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 49, 1912, p. 497 (Okinawa, Rui Kui). 



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

 p. 256. Wahai, Ceram. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, 

 p. 235 (copied). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 65, pi. 17, fig. 6 

 (Nicobars). — Karoli, Termesz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 152 

 (Sarangoon, Singapore). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat., Madrid, 

 vol. 14, 1885, p. 12 (Kordo, Mysore). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 

 1889, p. 501. — Weber, Semon's Zool. Forsch. Reis. Austral., vol. 5, 1895, 

 p. 263 (Amboina). — Steindachner, Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., vol. 

 25, 1900, p. 416 (Ternate).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, 

 p. 228 (Kangeang Island; Bima Bay; Kupang, Timor). — Beaufort, Bijd- 

 Dierk., Amsterdam, 1913, p. 114 (Batu mera mouth, Amboina; Majalibit 

 Bay, Waigiu). 



Amia ceramensis Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1875-76, p. 

 91 (Sumatra, Singapore, Bawean, Buru, Ceram, Amboina); vol. 8, 1876-77, 

 pi. (58)336, fig. 1. — Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 1910, p. 

 274 (Sandakan, Borneo). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, 

 p. 159 (Moen, Suva, Arhno, Truk). 



Depth 2% to 3V£; head 2\i to 2J/£, width 2% to 2%. Snout 3>s 

 to 4 in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 33^, greater than snout or inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches % to % in eye or about opposite hind 

 pupil edge, expansion 2 to 2% in eye, length 2 to 2}/g in head; bands 

 of minute villiform teeth in jaws, on vomer and palatines; interor- 

 bital 4% to 5, nearly level or only slightly convex; preopercle ridge 



