FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 91 

 AMIA HYPSELONOTA (Bleeker) 



Apogon hy pselonotus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 8, 1855, p. 



309. Batu Archipelago. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 



232 (copied); Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 20 (South 



Pacific). 

 Amia hypselonotus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 



94, pi. (75)353, fig. 4 (Batu, Nias, Banka, Java, Bali, Celebes, Timor, Ter- 



nate, Ceram, Goram, Amboina, Aru). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1927, p. 274 (Philippines); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, 



p. 160 (Wake Island, Mangareva). 

 Apogon leptacanthus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 12, 1856- 



57, p. 204. Ternate — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 232 



(copied). 

 Amia leptacantha Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Norland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 



97, pi. (71) 349, fig. 3 (Ternate).— Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, June 18, 1918, 



p. 63 (Philippines). 

 Apogon graeffii Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 22, 



pi. 20, fig. E. Boston Island, Marshall Group, Oceania. 

 Apogon graeffi Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat.. Mus., No. 7, 1877, p. 101 (Samoa). 

 Mionorus graeffei Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), 



p. 247, fig. 41. Apia and Pago Pago, Samoa. 

 Amia gilberti Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, p. 777, 



fig. 3. Negros. 

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



p. 245, fig. 39. Apia, Samoa. 



Depth 2}4 to 2\i\ head 2% to 2]/ 2 , width 2% to 2]/ 2 . Snout 4j/£ 

 to 5 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 2% to 2%, greater than snout 

 or interorbital; maxillary reaches Yz to % in eye, expansion 2 to 2Yi 

 in eye, length 2 to 2^ in head; teeth very minute, villiform, in nar- 

 row bands in jaws and apparently absent from palate; interorbital 

 3^5 to 4, but slightly convex; ridge and hind edge of preopercle 

 entire, lower edge denticulate. Gill rakers 6 + 23, finely lanceolate, 

 twice length of gill filaments or 2^ in eye. 



Scales 22 or 23 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on 

 latter; 2 above, 6 below, 5 predorsal, 2 rows of cheek scales to pre- 

 opercle ridge; muzzle, including interorbital, maxillary and preorbital 

 naked. Tubes in lateral line large, simple, well exposed, without 

 basal scale to each. Scales with 5 to 10 basal radiating striae; 

 largest scales with many as 28 to 30 small blunt apical denticles; 

 circuli moderate. 



D. VI-I, 9, i or 10, i, second spine 2 to 2^ in combined head and 

 body to caudal base, first ray 134 to 1^ in total head length; A. II, 

 9, i, second spine 1% to 1%, first ray 1% to 1%; caudal 1}4 to 134, 

 little emarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 234 J 

 pectoral 13^ to 1%; ventral 1% to V/%. 



Light brown, sides of head and abdomen with silvery reflections, 

 also some obsolete dusky dots on head, especially on cheek, others 



