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pectoral. It is certainly a distinct species, anil it is fairly represented by Dr. Giinther's figure a, as 

 well as apparently in the poor plate of Hombron and Jacquinot. 



About 10 specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. Color in life of a specimen from Apia, reddish 

 gray, with five stripes of very deep red-Tjlack, the interspaces gray; iris gray with yellowish tinge; fins 

 all pale red; an oblique streak on each dor.sal and on anal; none on caudal, the bands not converging; 

 on the fin. 



(Hombron & Jatu^uii 



490. Amia novemfasciata (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Samoa; Guaui; Tahiti; Kins;sniill I.; F;it/ 

 (Seale); East Indies. 

 Aji'ii/on. novemj'asciaius CuTier & Valenciennes. Hi.st. Nat. I'oiss., ii, 151, Timor and Guam. 



Apoijon fascialus Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. ITranie, 344, Guam. GUnther, Fisclie tier Sikisoe, 19, taf. 20, fig. i;. 

 Society, Samoan, and Kingsmill islands, etc.; not fig. a. Bleeker, Atlas, tab. XLvni, fig. 4, East Indies. Street^. 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 100, 1877, Samoa. Seale, Bishop Miis. 1901, 76, Guam; not of White. 



Head 2.50 in length; depth 2.S5; eye 3.20 in head; snout 4 in head; dorsal vii-i, 9; anal ii, S; 

 scales 2-28-6; interorbital 2 in orbit. 



Body oblong, compressed; caudal peduncle strong, its depth 1.50 in its length, which is 1.35 in 

 head; mouth large, jaws equal, maxillary 2 in head, its distal end under posterior third of eye; bands 

 of small teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; gillrakers not very sharp, the longest equal to width of 

 pupil, 14 on lower limb (12 developed); opercle entire; outer limb only of preopercledenliculate: base 

 of spinous dorsal 1.40 in the third spine, which is the longest and strongest; base of soft dorsal 2.75 in 

 head, its longest ray equal to distance from middle of eye to posterior tip of opercle; base of anal equal 

 to orbit, its longest ray 1.75 in head; pectoral 1.50 in head, its distal end reaching to base of soft dorsal; 

 ventrals 1.40 in head, their insertion directly below base of pectoral, their tips scarcely reaching base 

 of anal fin; caudal emarginate, 1.30 in head. 



Color in spirits, yellowish white, with four brown longitudinal bands about as wide as interspaces, 

 the first extending from middle of interorbital, dividing in front of dorsal fin into two which continue 

 along base of dorsal, uniting behind in a single line along top of caudal peduncle; the 2nd band extend- 

 ing from upper margin of orbit to caudal, where it runs obliquely out on fin to join the end of the 

 third line, which extends from tip of snout through eye to tip of caudal fin; the fourth line extending 

 from side of snout along lower part of orbit, over base of pectoral to caudal, where it extends 

 obliquely out on the fin to join the third line at tip — three of the bands thus converging on the caudal 

 fin, each of these bands more or less distinctly widened at about three intervals. There is also an 

 indistinct dusky line from angle of mouth to base of ventrals; a narrow white line along side of snout; 

 two larger dark blotches are apparent on the third body band; base and axil of pectoral dusky; a 

 black line with a narrow light one above it through lower base of soft dor.sal; a slight wash of dusky 

 on anterior membrane of spinous dorsal, usually a narrow black line through lower part of anal, 

 .lisappearing with age. 



