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Brown, lower half of head and abdomen whitish. Blackish brown 

 band from snout tip through eye and over postocular about as wide 

 as pupil. Small black spot, less than pupil at middle of caudal base. 

 Spinous dorsal blackish apically, fin otherwise grayish. Fins all pale 

 otherwise, lower ones little more whitish. 



Andamans, East Indies, Philippines, Micronesia. Bleeker's figure 

 of this species is inaccurate, as it shows four rows of scales across the 

 cheek. 



One example. Cataingan Bay, Masbate. April 18, 1908. Length 27 mm. 

 Three examples. Cebu market. March 28, 1909. Length 21 to 35 mm. 

 23167. Cebu market. September 3, 1909. Length 63 mm. 

 One example. Mati, Pujada Bay, Mindoro. May 15, 1908. Length 35 mm. 

 Thirteen examples. Nasipit, Mindanao. August 1, 1909. Length 34 to 59 mm. 

 Seven examples. Near Palag Bay, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length 44 to 60 mm. 

 Thirty examples. Tataan, Tawi Tawi Group. February 20, 1908. Length 21 



to 47 mm. 

 Two examples. Tataan. February 21, 1908. Length 51 to 53 mm. 

 6150. Tonquil Island, east of Gumila Reef. September 14, 1909. Length 40 



to 58 mm. 72 examples. 

 Fifteen examples. Daisy Islet, west of Bumbum, Trusan Tando Bulong, British 



North Borneo. January 6, 1910. Length 43 to 58 mm. 



AMIA HYALCSOMA (Bleeker) 



Apogon liyalosoma Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. 

 63. Sumatra (no diagnosis; on Apogon thcrmalis, not Cuvier, Bleeker, 

 1849); vol. 5, 1853, p. 329 (Amboina; Batavia, Samarang, Java; Bima, 

 Sumbawa; Benculen, Padang, Priaman, West Sumatra). — Gunther, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 231 (Amboyna). — Kner, Reise Novara, 

 Zool., vol. 1, pt. 5, 1865, p. 42 (Puynipet, Java). — -Playfair, Fishes of 

 Zanzibar, 1866, p. 19 (fresh water, Seychelles). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. 

 Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 256 (Paracali, Luzon). — Martens, Reisen Ost. 

 Afrika von der Decken, vol. 3, pt. 1, 1869, p. 141 (Seychelles). — Day, 

 Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 64, pi. 17, fig. 5. — Karoli, Termesz. 

 Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 152 (Sarangoon River, Singapore). — 

 Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 18S5, p. 12 (Cebu; 

 Rubi, New Guinea). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 500. — 

 Jatzow and Lenz, Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., vol. 21, 1889, p. 499 

 (Zanzibar). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., 1895, p. 469 (Cebu). — Weber, 

 Semon's Zool. Forsch. Reis. Austral., vol. 5, 1895, p. 263 (fresh water of 

 Amboina). — Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, 

 1904, p. 518 (Padang); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1906, p. 527 

 (Padang material). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 230 

 (Makassar). 



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

 96, pi. (31) 309, fig. 1 (Sumatra, Nias, Singapore, Biliton, Java, Sumbawa, 

 Celebes, Amboina, Luzon). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., 

 vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 254 (Mindoro and Calayan). — Seale, Philippine 

 Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 1910, p. 274 (Sandakan, Borneo). — Fowler, 

 Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 160 (compiled). 



Apogon thermalis (not Cuvier) Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Perc), 

 vol. 22, 1849, p. 27 (Batavia and Samarang, Java). 



