102 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Two examples. Reefs south end of Tumindao Island, Tawi Tawi Group, Sulu 

 Archipelago. February 26, 1908. Length 45 to 47 mm. (319). Male with 

 buccal ova. 



Fifteen examples. Saboon Island, Ragay Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon Island. 

 March 10, 1909. Length 22 to 48 mm. (1292). Body with brassy luster or 

 sheen. Entire side, head and body with many punctulations of olive. Small 

 black spot at beginning of lateral line and another on head near anterior scale; 

 few blackish dots irregularly on curve of lateral line. First dorsal olivaceous, 

 with brassy tint, second membrane with large black blotch terminally and 

 rest of fin slightly clouded darker, also small rounded black blotch in middle 

 of sixth membrane. Second dorsal pale olive with dusky bar through base. 

 Anal without markings, slightly pinkish. Caudal slightly dusky, with an 

 olive shade. Pectoral hyaline. Ventral olivaceous, dusky toward base. 



One example. Sulade Island, vicinity of Jolo. September 17, 1909. Length 

 32 mm. 



One example. San Miguel Harbor, Ticao Island. April 2, 1908. Length 27 mm. 



Two examples. San Pascual, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length 31 to 

 40 mm. Male with buccal ova. 



Seventeen examples. Southern lagoon, Tumindao Island, Tawi Tawi Group, 

 Sulu Archipelago. February 26, 1908. Length 39 to 51 mm. (319, 320). 

 Male with dull golden buccal ova. Pale reddish dusky, reds becoming gera- 

 nium on head and silvery below. Iris like adjacent head. First dorsal with 

 dark brown blotches on membranes. Second dorsal pink, dusky at base. 

 Caudal, anal and ventral pink, latter with dusky bar at base. Pectoral very 

 pale pink. 



Forty-three examples. Surigao. Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length 34 to 62 

 mm. 



Seventeen examples. Tataan, Simaluc Island, Tawi Tawi Group, Sulu Archi- 

 pelago. February 18-20, 1908. Length 20 to 41 mm. 



Twelve examples. Danawan and Si Amil Islands, vicinity Sibuko Bay, Borneo. 

 September 27, 1909. Length 28 to 36 mm. 



21111. Cape Kait, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length 40 mm 



Three examples. Great Tobea Island, Buton Strait. December 15, 1909. 

 Length 18 to 21 mm. 



Twenty-seven examples. Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length 16 to 

 36 mm. 



AMIA CARDINALIS Seale 



Amia cardinalis Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, 1909, p. 509. 

 Puerta Princesa, Palawan Island. 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2% to 2%, width 2 to 2}/ 8 . Snout V/ 2 to 

 5 in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 334, greater than snout or interor- 

 bital; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye edge, expansion \% to 1% 

 in eye, length 1% to 2 in head; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, on 

 vomer and palatines; interorbital 4% to 53^, nearly level; infraor- 

 bital and postorbital edges, preopercle ridge and edge serrated and 

 supraorbital edge serrated with age. Gill rakers 5 + 14, of which 2 

 upper ones rudiments and others lanceolate, little longer than gill 

 filaments or 23^ in eye. 



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

 latter; 2 above, 6 below, 5 or 6 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek; head naked 



