FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 109 



Subgenus Lepidamia Gill 



Body elongate, depth more than half length. Scales small, 36 in 

 lateral line. 



AMIA MULTITAENIATA (Cuvier) 



Apogon multitaeniatus (Ehrenberg) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 

 1828, p. 159. Red Sea. — Ruppell, Atlas Reise nordl. Afrika, Fische, 

 1828, p. 47 (name). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 

 1S70, p. 713 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 

 681 (Andamans); Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 57, pi. 16, fig. 1 (Madras 

 and Bombay); Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 491. 



Apogon (Lepidamia) multitaeniatus Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, 

 p. 20. 



Apogon noordzieki Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 19, 1859, p- 

 336. Patjitan, Java. — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, 

 vol. 14, 1885, p. 12 (Cebu). 



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

 77 (Java); vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (74) 352, fig. 1. 



Apogon taeniatus (not Cuvier) Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 101 

 (note). 



Depth 2}4; bead 2%, width 2. Snout 2,% in head; eye ?>%, sub- 

 equal with snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches % in eye, expan- 

 sion \%, length 2 in head; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, on vomer 

 and palatines; interorbital 4, only very slightly convex; preopercle 

 ridge entire and edge minutely serrated. Gill rakers 6 + 13, lanceo- 

 late, greatly more than gill filaments or \% in eye. 



Scales 36 in lateral line to caudal base and five more on latter; 4 

 above, 10 below, 7 predorsal, 4 rows on cheek; head naked, except 

 cheeks and opercles. Tubes in lateral line large, well exposed and 

 each with broad crimped scale. Scales with 13 to 18 basal radiating 

 striae; 47 to 103 apical denticles with 2 transverse series of basal 

 elements; circuli fine. 



D. VIII-I, 9, i, fourth spine 2\i in head, second ray 1^; A. II, 8, 

 i, second spine 2%, second ray 1%; caudal lVg, deeply emarginate; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle \]4,\ pectoral V/i', ventral 1%. 



Brown, paler on under surfaces. About 5 longitudinal darker lines 

 above lateral line and parallel with its course, below 11 horizontally. 

 Iris slaty. Fins all grayish, spinous dorsal dusky brown terminally 

 and soft dorsal with dusky brown basal band next to subbasal whitish 

 one. 



Red Sea, India, Andamans, East Indies, Philippines. 



14238(1107). Mariveles wharf, Manila Bay, Luzon. January 30, 1909. Length 



124 mm. General color dusky red, fading to pearly. Dusky stripes along and 



between scale rows. Fins bright carmine. First dorsal largely covered by 



blackish blotch. 



Genus ARCHAMIA Gill 



Archamia Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1863, p. 81. Type 

 Apogon bleekeri Gunther, monotypic. 



