288 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



This large species is very common about the Saraoan Islands, as also about Hawaii. We have about 

 40 specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. The dark spot at base of caudal above is usually distinct, 

 tliough varying much in degree of definition. There is a more or less evident lateral shade, but never 

 sharply defined. 



Life colors of a specimen from .'Vpia, brownish red; sides washed with clear light green, the edges 

 of scales brownish red; a diffuse black bar at base of caudal, forming a pretty distinct rounded spot 

 above lateral line and extending backward on edges of both caudal lobes; a faint dark shade from 

 snout across eye, with a darker blotch on opercle and a rounded spot behind eye; a dusky shade on 

 side from eye to tail on larger specimens; axil dull reddish brown; fins all dull reddish brown; first 

 dorsal l)lack on anterior spines; second dorsal and ventral dusky shaded. 



477. Amia frenata (Valenciennes). New Guinea; Guam. 



Apogim frenatus Valenciennes, Nouv. Ann. Hist. Nat., i, 57, 1832, with plate. New Guinea, Guam. 

 This species we have failed to recognize. It is close to our Amia exodigma, differing in the 

 narrower lateral band, and in the more diffuse caudal spot, which is at the end of the lateral band. 

 It is more remote from Amia snyderi, which has the lateral stripe fainter, broader, and more diffuse. 



478. Amia exostigma Jordan & Starks, new species. Samoa. 



Head 2.7.T in length; depth 3.3; eye 3 in head; interorbital width 5; snout 3.7.5; maxillary 2.2.5: 

 caudal peduncle 2.67; dorsal vii-i, 'J; anal ii, i); scales 2-2.5-.5..5. 



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I emsliffma Jordan i Starlfs. new species. Type. 



Body slender; upper anterior profile a slight, even, unbroken curve from tip of snout to first dorsal 

 spine; snout blunt, and projecting very slightly beyond the maxillary; maxillary extending to below 

 middle of eye, its anterior end projecting a very little beyond tip of lower jaw; teeth in moderately 

 wide bands on jaws, in a narrower V-shaped patch on vomer; rather large spines on both posterior 

 edges of preopercle, those near the angle larger, all of them directed backward; gillrakers ratliei 

 slender, the longest one-thiid the diameter of the eye, 4+14 in number, about 4 of which are repre- 

 sented l)y tubercles on the anterior end of the lower limb. 



Scales everywhere ctenoid, the marginal denticulations fine and elose-set. preicded by many short 

 s]iinules regularly placed, forming a moderately wide band around tlie |.o>teii,ir Imidi-r of each scale. 

 Third dorsal spine Itingest, its length equal to distance between tip of Minut and posterior margin of 

 pupil; when fin is depressed its tip reaches a little past front of soft dorsal; first spine very short, 5 in 

 eye; the second spine midway between these two spines in length; second dorsal with a long spine 

 equal in length to the second dorsal base; second dorsal ray the longer, equal to length of head 

 anterior to anterior preopercle margin; second anal spine a little longer than diameter of eye; anal 

 placed a little posterior to soft dorsal; ventrals scarcely reaching to front of anal; pectoral reaching to 

 ai)o\e base of second anal spine. 



Color in life of a specimen from Pago Pago, light olive; jet black band from snout through eye, 

 fading behind; just above this stripe at base of caudal a round, jet lilack spot as large as pupil; fins 



