NO. 1853. FOUR NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES— RADCLIFFE. 253 



Guam, the latter apparently Qiioy and Gaimard's type of A.fasciatus; 

 both seem to be this species, and as the name fasciatus is preoccu- 

 pied the present name holds. Bleeker ^ wrongly credits tliis species 

 to Doctor Gill, and Day ^ evidently has copied from Bleeker. 



AMIA ANGUSTATA Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 



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



General form oblong, compressed; head 2.68, conic; body com- 

 pressed, slender, dorsal and ventral outline arched from tip of snout 

 to caudal peduncle, depth 2.95; breadth of body behind opercle 2.18 

 in depth; caudal peduncle strongly compressed, rather deep, depth 

 2.12, length 1.40; eye 2.75, large, prominent; snout 3.85, short, 

 depressed, pointed; mouth large, oblique, jaws subequal; maxillary 



Fig. I.—Amia ANGUSTATA. (From the type. Natural size.) 



1.79, extending slightly beyond vertical from posterior border of 

 pupil; interorbital 5.31, narrow, with a slight median ridge; margin 

 of preopercle denticulated; intramarginal preopercular crest and 

 orbital bones with weak denticulations ; well-developed villiform 

 teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; peritoneum silvery white; 

 scales large, firm, somewhat longer than broad; 28 pores in lateral 

 line. 



Dorsal spines slender, the first 5.55 in the second, second 2.20 in 

 third, the third longest, 2; soft dorsal high, 1.66; caudal forked; 

 anal 1.85, distal margin sinuous; ventrals 1.85, short; pectoral 1.39, 

 long. 



Color in alcohol: General color yellowish white with three light 

 brown stripes on the side and one along the middle of the back, these 

 are narrower than light-colored interspaces; median dorsal stripe 

 extends from between eyes to occiput, where it divides, reuniting and 

 ending behind last dorsal ray; first lateral stripe joins its fellow near 

 tip of snout and passes over eye to base of caudal, slightly decurvedat 



1 Atlas, vol. 7, p. 87. » Fishes of India, p. 69. 



