26 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VoL. 62. 
with submarginal dusky band behind. Length, 91 to 100 mm. 
Four from Takao. 
Jordan and Snyder place Apogon marginatus Déderlein as a 
species distinct from the present. As Apogon ellioté Steindachner, 
however, originally records the species correctly from Kagoshima 
and Kobi. Jordan and Snyder had but a single example, obtained 
at Wakanoura. All of our examples show the preopercle ridge 
with a blackish line. 
AMIA KIENSIS (Jordan and Snyder). 
Head, 24 to 22; depth, 2% to 34; D. VII—I, 9,1, or 10,1; A. II, 
8, 1; tubular scales, 23 or 24 in lateral line to caudal base, and 2 to 
4 more on latter; 2 scales above lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 
6 below to spinous anal origin; 4 or 5 predorsal scales; snout, 
41 to 48 in head from upper jaw tip; eye, 3 to 34; maxillary, 1f to 
2; interorbital, 44 to 44. Gill-rakers m1, 8+-11, m1, lanceolate, one 
third longer than filaments, or 24+ in eye. Scales with 13 to 17 
radiating basal striae, apical denticles 112 to 116, and circuli rather 
few. Color in alcohol pale brown above, paler to whitish beneath, 
with silvery reflections, especially on opercle. Narrow deep brown 
line, not wide as pupil, from snout tip to caudal base and out over 
fin to its hind edge. Another, similar, parallel, begins above eye 
and ends on upper surface of caudal peduncle. Outer dorsal edges 
dusted with dusky. Both soft dorsal and anal with dusky line sub- 
basally. 
In very small brightly colored examples, upper dark lines arise 
at snout tip, extend over eye, and finally disappear at caudal. Also 
these show an additional median dark predorsal line arising over 
middle of eye and a paler one from upper hind eye edge, between 
supradorsal and mediolateral bands. It is much less conspicuous,. 
only indicating the lateral line and not extending beyond soft dor- 
sal. Length, 45 to 90 mm. Twenty-four examples from Takao. 
Compared with a Philippine example in the Academy and agrees. 
Family PRIACANTHIDAE. 
PRIACANTHUS TAYENUS Richardson. 
Head, 2% to 3; depth, 22 to 24; D. X, 12,1; A. III, 18, 1; scales 
70 along lateral line to caudal base and 5 more on latter, 10 scales 
above lateral line to spinous dorsal, 9 above to soft dorsal origin, 
30 below to spinous anal; 48 predorsal scales; snout, 32 to 3% in 
head from upper jaw tip; eye, 2 to 24; maxillary, 14 to 1; inter- 
orbital, 44 to 44. Gill-ralers, 4-18, lanceolate, one-fourth longer 
than filaments, or 2? in eye. Scales with four basal lobes, ifregular 
apical denticles 12 to 20, and circuli moderate. Soft dorsal ends in 
