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dull reddish; first dorsal spine black; a dark streak on base of dorsal a-nd anal and upper and lower 

 caudal lobes; cheek and breast soiled silver. 



Color in alcohol, slightly dusky with fine dots; scarcely darker on back; a black lateral band 

 from tip of snout across eye, but not involving eye, tajjering backward to base of middle caudal 

 rays; widest just behind ej'e; a conspicuous round black spot on caudal peduncle at base of caudal 

 rays, just above lateral line; a short light stripe with violet reflections on opercle bordering black 

 lateral stripe, below which opercle is silvery with violet reflections; upper and lower margins of 

 caudal bordered with black; dusky shades at base of soft dorsal and anal. 



Eight specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. This species is very clo.se to ^mia /renata and A. 

 iiieUiiiiii-liinii-hiia, differing in having the very distinct caudal spot above the termination of the jet black 

 lattral baud and entirely separated from it, the band growing very faint before reaching the base of 

 the caudal. 



The lateral band is in this species very broad anteriorly, almost as broad as the eye, while in 

 Amia frennta this band is narrow. In Amia snyderi, also a closely related species, the lateral liand 

 and its terminal spot are broad and diffuse. 



The ty|ie is from Apia; it is 3 inches in length, ami is no. .t1782, l". S. National Museum. 



479. Amia menesema (Jenkins). Hawaii. 



480. Amia crassiceps (Garman). Fiji; Samoa. 



Apiirinn rmssitrps Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. 19l;3, Suva (Fijii. 

 One large specimen taken at Apia. 



481. Amia everman-ni (Jordan & Sny<ler). Hawaii. 



482. Amia orbicularis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Radack I.; East Indies. 



483. Amia guamensis (Valenciennes). Guam. 



Apogon guaniensis XedencieTine^, Ann. Mus, Nat. Hist , i, nrt, ls:^l. Guam. 

 A deep-bodied, plain-colored species with large head and one limb only of tlie opercle serrate; 

 cau<lal notched This species may be the same as A. rrasgireps. 



484. Amia savayensis (Giinther). Savaii, Samoa: Tonga; Yap; Tahiti; Fiji; Fate; Shortland I. 



and Raiatea (Scale); East Indies. 



Apoijnn saraiii-iisig iliiiitluT, Piijc. Zool. Soc. 1871, G56,. Savaii i Samoa i. Giinther, Flsche der Sudsee, 21, taf. 19, 



fig. B, Saui'Ni I '!iL 1, V i; , hiliiti, Celebes. Seale, Bishop Mus. 1901, Fishes Guam, 76, Guam 

 ApoyonbanrJiiij. - i : not of Bleeker, who has wrongly identified sacai/CTiws with ?itm(/aiiCH!i(s. 



ApnyonSiifCiix'. . . \. . I: : !. r SUdsee, 22, Fiji. 

 ApiigonniibilusG^iniutu, Lui:. .Mus. Comp. Zool.. 1903, Suva (Fiji). 



This species is very common about the Samoan Islands. We have about 100 specimens from Apia 

 and Pago Pago. Ordinarily the color markings are very distinct. There is an oblique black streak 



