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Vjackward and downward from eye; aKont i-ijhi vrrtical silvery stripes on the side between iHTi.niil 

 and region above middle of anal; :i i.l:nki-li -:mMIc on caudal peduncle, and a black and wliitc- ^t^i| <■ 

 on eacli edge of caudal. In some siM-riniriis, liwwever, any or all of these marks may be rciluccl 

 to mere traces. The silvery cross-streaks, the most characteristic of these traits, were wanting in 

 Giinther's types. Apparently the specimen called hy Gunther Apogon fu^cm was one in which all 

 the marks were obliterated. It is certain that this is not thefuscm of Quoy and Gainiard, which ha^- 

 the caudal rcjiindeil and lili itched with hlaek. Bleeker is certainly wrong in regarding saruyeiuis as the 

 same as Amin li,iii,l'ini uxix. i lannan's Apogon nubilus is apparently the young of this species with 

 the markings laded, allli<pugh mure di.-tinet than in Giinther's type. 



Color in life of a specimen from Pago I'ago, dusky olive, with seven narrow dull silvery cross- 

 streaks, each dark-edged on each side; other fainter streaks curved behind; a dusky saddle on caudal 

 peduncle, another under soft dorsal; fins dull red, first dorsal anteriorly black; a dark streak along 

 each caudal lobe; a dusky streak behind eye. 



A specimen from Apia in life was brownish olive; side with seven pinkish-white cross-streaks, 

 each eilged with brow'n; an oblique brownish olive bar below eye; a jet black saddle on back of tail; 

 first dorsal blackish; other fins light brownish red; a black streak edged with orange down each lobe 

 of the caudal; tips of soft dorsal and anal liglit orange-red. 



Fig. 33.— .lm»i sariiiieiifif iGunllu-n. 



The life colors of a young examjjle from Apia were dull olive, faintly barred with paler, a large 

 black sjirit before base of caudal; no other markings; first dorsal black; other fins pale grayish. 

 Called,/'; by the Samoans. 



Another specimen from Pago Pago in life was dull olive, slightly reddish, with some silvery on sides, 

 arranged in cross-bands along muscles; a dark streak like a pencil mark across opercle, another down- 

 ward and backward from eye; a faint diffuse dark blotch above lateral line from base of caudal, then 

 joined saddlewise over back; first dorsal dusky; other fins purjilish olive, the spine of second dorsal 

 dusky. Caudal lunate; dorsal vii; preopercle serrate. 

 485. Amia koilomatodon (Bleeker). Samoa; Shortland I.; Solomon Is. (Seale); East Indies. 



Head 2.60 in length; depth equal to head; eye 3.10 in heail; dorsal vi-i, 10; anal ii, 8; scales 2- 

 28-0; interorbital l..j0 in eye; snout 1.20 in eye. 



Body oblong, compressed, slightly elevated; caudal [peduncle rather thick and strong, its depth 

 1..50 in length, which is equal to distance from anterior margin of eye to posterior margin of opercle; 

 mouth large; maxillary equal to post-ocular portion of head; its distal end under posterior margin of 

 pupil, the width of distal end slightly greater than pu]iil: villifurm teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatine; 



