250 PROCEEDIffGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. tol.41. 



slightly channeled; preopercular margin serrate; intramarginal pre- 

 opercular crest and orbital bones smooth; bands of villiform teeth 

 on jaws, vomer, and palatines, those on vomer somewhat blunter 

 than the others; peritoneum dusky silvery; scales normal, sub- 

 rectangular. 



Dorsal spines weak, the third longest, 2.52; soft dorsal, 1.91, 

 distal margin obliquely truncate; caudal emarginate; anal 2.34, low; 

 ventrals, 1.68, short, tips reaching vent; pectoral 1.57, short. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color dusky brownish yellow (much dis- 

 colored), with five dark brown lateral stripes and one along the 

 middle of the back from nuchal region to base of last dorsal ray; 

 the first lateral stripe appears to join its fellow near tip of snout, 

 extends backward over eye to upper margin of caudal; the second 

 crosses upper fourth of eye, backward along lower half of scales of 

 curved portion of lateral line, merging into the third on straight 

 portion; the third, widest, passes around tip of snout, through 

 middle of eye to tips of median caudal rays ; the fourth from middle 

 of maxillary, under eye, above base of pectoral to inferior margin of 

 caudal, very indistinct behind pectoral; faint traces of a fifth along 

 side of belly to posterior base of anal; spinuous dorsal dusky; soft 

 dorsal with a narrow dusky bar near base to tip of last ray ; a similar 

 bar on anal, crossing middle of sixth and seventh rays to tip of eighth; 

 basal portion of rays of soft dorsal and anal whitish; first ventral 

 ray light, others dusky black; pectorals dusky, base iridescent; tip 

 of mandible blackish. 



This species is apparently the only one of the group occurring on 

 the coast of New South Wales and is distinct from the other striped 

 forms herein described. It is characterized by the small eye, long 

 snout, deep body, and marked coloration. White's figure was 

 evidently made from a much faded specimen. That portion of the 

 stripes not shown in his sketch is least distinct in the example at 

 hand. 



AMIA AROUBIENSIS (Hombron and Jacquinot). 



Plate 22. 



Apogon aroubiensis Hombron and Jacquinot, D'Urville's Voyage au Pole Sud, 



Poissons, 1853, p. 31, pi. 1, fig. 1; Aroub in Malaysia. 

 Apogon fasciatus, GiJNTHER, Fische der Siidsee, 1873, p. 19, pi. 20, fig. A (part), 

 Amia aroubiensis, Jordan and Seale, Fishes of Samoa, Bulletin Bureau of Fish- 

 eries, vol. 25, 1905, pp. 241-2, fig. 35, 1906. 



Dorsal vii-i,9; anal ii,8; scales 3 + 6 — 25. 



General form subovate, compressed; head 2.65; depth 2.73; cau- 

 dal peduncle slender, depth 2.18, length 1.34; eye 2.57, large; snout 

 3.94, short, pointed; mouth of moderate size, oblique; maxillary 1.76, 

 long, reaching a little beyond vertical from posterior border of pupil ; 

 interorbital 5.14, narrow, flattened, rugose; margin of preopercle 



