118 "endeavour" scientific results. 



Amia fasciata, Shaw. 



subsp. AROUBiENSis, Homhrou <£• Jacquinot. 



A'pogon fasciatus, Giinther, Journ. Mus. Godeff.. ii.. 1873, 

 p. 19, pi. XX., fig. A. 



Amia aroiihiensis (Hombron & Jacquinot), Jordan & Seale, 

 Bull. U.S. Fish. Bur., xxv., 1906, p. 241, fig. 35. Id., 

 Radcliffe, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xli., 1911, p. 250. 

 pi. xxii. 



Three specimens are in the Australian JMuseum, two of which 

 are from Murray Island, Torres Strait ; the other was collected 

 in Suva, Fiji. 



Amia fasciata, Shaw. 

 subsp. COMPRESSA, liadcUffe. 



Amia compressa, Radcliffe, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xli., 191], 

 p. 246, pi. XX., xxi. 



Four specimens of this well-marked form are in the Austra- 

 lian Museum from the Malay Archipelago and Bougainville 

 Island, Solomon Group. 



Amia fasciata, Shaw. 



subsp. STEVENSi, subsp. nov. 

 (Plate xvi., fig. 2.) 



Amia novemfasciata var., Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. 



Bur., XXV., 1906, fig. 37 (not A. novemfasciata, Cuv. 



and Val.). 

 Amia rohusta part, Radcliffe, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xli, 



1911, p. 256. 



This form was considered to be a variety of A. novemjasciata 

 by Jordan and Seale, and later identified with A. rohusta by 

 Radcliffe. I have examined sixty-two specimens, 24-lOOnnn. 

 long, from various parts of the New Hebrides ; they are easily 

 separated from ^4. novemfasciata by the lack of the caudal 

 markings characteristic of that foj'ui, while they never have 

 the round black caudal spot of ^4. rohvsta {=A. fasciata). 

 Some specimens a2:)proach ^4. aroiihiensis, but differ in having 

 the bands narrower and ending less abruptly at the base 

 of the tail. 



The median band is often somewhat expanded and darker 

 at the base of the caudal. An indefinite secondary band 

 may be present or absent anteriorly between the dorso-lateral 

 and the median bauds. The black band on the dorsal may 



