NO. 1853. FOUR NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES— RADCLIFFE. 257 



outer margin black; first dorsal all black. These specimens differ 

 rather markedly from the ordmary ones and may represent a distinct 

 species, but except in color we find no tangible characters." In the 

 reserve series of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, among the 

 specimens of A. novemfasciata, taken by these authors, are a number 

 of examples of this species. These agree with specimens from the 

 Philippines, and their figure, 37, is undoubtedly from a fish of this 

 species; it lacks the short bar behind eye. 



The specimen in the reserve series of the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries identified as A. fasciata, Evermann and Seale ^ from Bacon, 

 Philippine Islands, is also this species. 



Some of the Albatross examples from Canimo Island taken June 15, 

 1909, and those from Apia are females with eggs in an advanced stage 

 of development. An examination of a number of examples of this 

 species and of A. novemfasciata shows both sexes present in each case. 



The relative proportions of parts of body of A. arouhiensis, novem- 

 fasciata, angustata, and rohusta are so close that the ordinary com- 

 parative measurements when used alone are of little diagnostic value, 

 yet the form of body and differences in coloration are so marked that 

 these species can be separated with comparative ease. 



Type.—Q&t. No. 68400, U.S.N.M., 8.7 cm. in length, from Jolo 

 Reefs, taken with dynamite. 



AMIA VERSICOLOR Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 



Dorsal vii-i,9 ; anal ii,8 ; scales 3 + 6 — 23. 



General form subovate, compressed; head 2.46, large; body short, 

 deep, depth 2.50; caudal peduncle short slender, depth 3.05, length 

 2.10; eye 2.90, small; snout 4.06, short, rounded; mouth large, very 

 oblique, jaws subequal; tongue large, thick, with a peculiar pointed, 

 constricted tip; maxillary 1.63, scarcely reaching vertical from pos- 

 terior border of orbit; nostrils well developed; interorbital 3.40, 

 rather broad, convex; margin of preopercle serrate; intramarginal 

 preopercular crest smooth or with weak serrations; orbital bones 

 smooth; small villiform teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines; peri- 

 toneum dusky silvery; scales large, suborbicular, with a marginal row 

 of long slender denticulations; some of the scales have only a few 

 denticulations or none at all, cycloid-like. 



Dorsal spines weak, third longest, 2.15; soft dorsal 1.80, margin 

 rounded; caudal rather deeply forked; anal similar to soft dorsal, 

 2.45; ventrals 1.75, short; pectoral 1.75, broad rounded, short. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color dusk}'- silvery; three narrow, slaty 

 black lateral stripes and one along the middle of the back from nape 

 to base of caudal; the first lateral stripe unites with its fellow near 



' Fishes of the Philippine Islands, 1907, p. 72. 

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