NO. 1853. FOUR I!EW PHILIPPINE FISHES— RADCLIFFE. 259 



Body slender, fusiform; head 2.76; depth 2.92 ; depth caudal pedun- 

 cle 2.45, length 1.81; eye 3.02; snout 3.62; maxillary 1.72; interor- 

 bital3.35; pectoral 1.70; vontrall.70; light brown with silvery reflec- 

 tions; ventral silver stripe margined above with a narrow black line; 

 first dorsal dusky, other fins hyaline; opercular bones silvery; tongue 

 silver plated. 



Specimens from Cataingan Bay, the largest being 3.9 cin. in length, 

 had spawned and many males were carrying eggs and apparently fry 

 in mouth. As these had practically all been washed out into pre- 

 servative it is impossible to determine the conditions in individual 

 cases. Comparison with eggs and young from mouth of Albatross 

 examples of Amia atradorsata from Chatham Island, Galapagos 

 Islands, shows that the fry are farther advanced in the Philippine 

 species and were free from egg capsule at time of capture. The con- 

 dition of the young of Amia atradorsata indicates that they may have 

 been freed by the shock resulting from placing them in alcohol. 



There are 110 specimens in the collection from niunerous shore 

 stations between Luzon and the most remote southern parts of the 

 Philippine Archipelago — Sibutu Island and North Balabac Strait; 

 and from various dredging stations at depths of 10 to 169 fathoms. 



Type.—Cat. No. 68401, U.S.N.M., 3.9 cm. in length, from Cataingan 

 Bay, Masbate. 



AMIA MULTILINE AT A Bleeker. 

 Plate 25. 



Apogon mitltitxniatus, Bleeker, Contribution to ichthyology of Sumbawa, 

 Journal Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, vol. 2, 1848; Verhandelingen 

 Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, vol 22, Percoiden, 

 1849, p. 28.— GiJNTHER, Catalogue of Fishes, vol. 1, 1859, p. 242, (not of 

 Ehrenberg). 



Amia multitseniata, Bleeker, Atlas, vol. 7, p. 319, Percidse, pi. 41, fig. 1, 1873-76. 



Amia multilineata Bleeker, Atlas, vol. 7, pp. 83-84, 1873-76. 



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



General form oblong, compressed; head 2.87, conic; bod}^ robust, 

 dorsal and ventral outline symmetrical; depth 2.66; caudal peduncle 

 elongate, compressed, depth 2.02, length 1.39; eye 2.59; snout 3.55, 

 short, pointed; mouth moderate, obhque, jaws subequal; maxillary 

 2, reaching vertical from posterior border of pupU; iiiterorbital 5, flat; 

 preapercular margin finely serrate ; intramarginal preopercular crest 

 and orbital bones smooth or with a few very weak serrations; villiform 

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

 regular. 



Dorsal spines long and slender, third longest and strongest, 1.65; 

 soft dorsal higher, 1.28, its distal margin slightly roimded, nearly 

 truncate; caudal forked; anal similar to soft dorsal, 1.54; ventral 

 1.52; pectoral 1.54. 



