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(D. 5517), 1759. Port Tagolo Light, S. 83° W., 10.5 miles. August 9," 1909. 



Length 39 mm. 

 (D. 5179). Romblon. March 25, 1908. Length 34 mm. 

 (D. 5169). Sibutu Island, Sulu Archipelago. February 27, 1908. Length 



31 mm. 

 (D. 5148). Sirun Island, Sulu Archipelago. February 16, 1908. Length 



31 mm. (3961.) 

 (D. 5149). Sirun Island. February 18, 1908. 2 examples. Length 37 to 



39 mm. 

 Two examples. Usada Island. March 5, 1908. Length 31 to 37 mm. (390, 



389.) General color seal brown over silvery, with reddish underlaid shades. 



Vertical fins vermilion, paired fins very pale vermilion. When freshly 



captured black markings very intense, become paler later and reds fade light. 



Genus AMIOIDES Smith and Radcliffe 



Amioides Smith and Radcliffe, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, p. 

 440. Type Amia {Amioides) grossidens Smith and Radcliffe, monotypic. 



Body moderately long, compressed. Head large, compressed. 

 Mandible well protruded. Teeth in villiform bands in jaws and on 

 palate, very narrow row on vomer and palatines. Two long slender 

 incurved canines at front of upper jaw and single symphyseal canine 

 below. Gill rakers moderate. Scales large, ctenoid. Dorsal with 



7 spines and soft fin with spine and 10 rays. Anal with 2 spines and 



8 rays. One species. 



AMIA GROSSIDENS Smith and Radcliffe 



Amia (Amioides) grossidens Smith and Radcliffe, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 41, 1912, p. 440, pi. 36, fig. 1. West coast of Luzon (N. Lat. 16° 

 36' 36", E. Long., 120° 11' 6" in 45 fathoms). 



Depth 3; head 2}^, width 2%. Snout 4 in head from snout tip; 

 eye 3}/£, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches % in 

 eye, expansion 2, length 2 in head; teeth villiform, in band in upper 

 jaws, on vomer and palatines; though in both jaws outer row slightly 

 enlarged to give place posteriorly on each mandibular ramus to 3 

 canines curved back; pair of wide set canines above inside outer 

 band of teeth and single symphyseal canine below; interorbital 4V£, 

 level; preopercle ridge entire, edge denticulated. Gill rakers 5 + 14, 

 lanceolate, much greater than gill filaments or 2 in eye. 



Scales (pockets) 22 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 or 5 more 

 on latter; 2 above, 6 ? below, 6 ? predorsal, 2 rows on cheek; head 

 naked except cheeks and opercles; strong curved spine, curved down 

 and back at suprascapula. Lateral line with large tubes, arborescent. 

 Scales finely ctenoid but mostly all now fallen, so their structure 

 omitted. 



D. VII-I, 10, i, third spine 2}i in total head length, first ray 2; 

 A. II, 8, i, second spine 3, second ray 2; caudal 134, emarginate 

 behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; pectoral \%; ventral \y%. 



