NO. 1853. FOUR NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES— RADCLIFFE. 251 



serrate; intramarginal preoperciilar crest and orbital bones smooth 

 or with very weak serrations; teeth small, villiform; peritoneum 

 silvery whitef; scales large, subcircular, regular in arrangement. 



Dorsal spines slender, third longest, 1.76; soft dorsal somewhat 

 higher 1.54, distal margin rounded; caudal forked; anal similar to 

 soft dorsal, depth 1.75; ventrals 1.61; pectoral 1.37, long. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color silvery wliite, four broad, dark red- 

 dish-brown stripes on sides and one along the middle of the back, 

 stripes much wider than light-colored interspaces; the median dorsal 

 stripe extends from between eyes to posterior base of soft dorsal, 

 margined anteriorly by a silvery white line on each side which unite 

 and extend to near tip of snout, separating the first lateral stripe from 

 its fellow at this point, the latter extends over eye to upper base of 

 caudal peduncle, then bends sharpl}^ downward uniting with the 

 second on base of caudal; the second separated from first and third 

 on head by white lines joins its fellow on tip of snout and extends 

 through middle of eye to base of caudal ending in a very dark brown 

 area; the third extends from lower margin of eye to inferior base of 

 caudal peduncle, then bends sharply upward to second; the fourth, 

 lighter in color, extends along side of belly to base of anal ; fins yellow- 

 ish white; a black bar along base of soft dorsal to tip of last ray; a 

 similar bar on anal; middle rays of caudal in this specimen with a 

 slight trace of duskiness. This description is of an individual 6.1 

 cm. in length from Tutu Bay, Jolo. 



This species is found throughout the Philippine Archipelago, the 

 collections containing about 125 examples from 50 localities in the 

 Philippines and Celebes. These do not differ from individuals from 

 Apia, Samoa. It closely resembles A. noiiemfasciata, differing in 

 having the stripes broader and not extended beyond base of caudal; 

 the curvature of dorsal surface is greater, giving the fish a slightly 

 deeper appearance; the eye is relatively larger, and the snout is 

 shorter. 



AMIA NOVEMFASCIATA (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Plate 23. 



Apogon fasciatus Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage de rUranie, 1824, p. 344; Guam. 



Apogon fasciatus,^ Peters, Mouatsberichte der Koniglichen Preussischen 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1868, p. 256; Luzon, Samar — ■ 

 GuNTHER, Fische der Siidsee, 1873, p. 19, pi. 20, fig. B — Bleeker, Atlas, 

 1873-76, vol. 7, p. 87, (part), pi. 326, Percoidei pi. 48, fig. 4, 1876-77— Day, 

 Fishes of India, p. 69, 1878-88 (part). 



Apogon novemfasciatiis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire Naturelle des 

 Poissons, vol. 2, 1828, p. 154; Timor and Guam. 



Amia novemfasciata Jordan and Seale, Fishes of Samoa, Bulletin Bureau of 

 Fisheries, vol. 25 (1905), pp. 242-3, fig. 36, 1906 (not fig. 37)— Jordan and 

 Seale, Fishes from Negros, Proc. U. S. National Museum, vol. 28, 1905, 

 p. 777 — Jordan and Richardson, Fishes from Islands of Philippine Archi- 

 pelago, Bulletin Bureau of Fisheries, vol. 27 (1907), p. 254, 1908; Calayan, 

 Cuyo, Ticao. 



'Confused with Mullus fasciatus Wliite. 



