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nearl}" to middle of fourth row. Scales on back slio-htly bordered with 

 bluish. Snout and tip of mandible black; dorsals and caudal dusk}^; 

 pectoral blackish toward tip; ventrals and anal with the least tinge of 

 dusky, nearly colorless. 



This species resembles Atlierlna lacunosa Forster in having a short 

 stout body and large eye. It differs from it in having the maxillary 

 longer and the lateral band wider. A specimen of the latter species 

 from Sydne}' in the Stanford University collections has the maxillary 

 reaching just past front of eye, scarcely to front of pupil, and upper 

 edge of lateral ])and just above middle of third row of scales ])elow 

 spinous dorsal; its lower edge not reaching the lower points of the 

 third row of scales, but slightl}' involving the upper points of the 

 fourtli row. YvomAtherlna txxtru<iiv it may be known b}- the longer 

 maxillary, stouter bodj-, and larger head and eye. 



Fl(i. I.— A.MFA NOTATA. 



The type and sole specimen Is 12 cm. in length and was taken at 

 Miyanoura, Yakushima. It is numbered 0359, Stanford University. 



This species is nauK^l for Mr. Earl Leonard Morris, in recognition 

 of his careful work on the fishes of Southern California. 



Family KUHLIIDJ^:. 



KUHLIA T^NIURA ( Cuvier and Valenciennes) . 



Several small specimens from rock pools on Tanegashima. 

 The characteristic bands on the caudal of these young specimens are 

 very conspicuous. 



Family APOCONICHTHYID.F. 



AMIA NOTATA i Houttyn). 



One specinuMi from Yakushima. 



