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posterior large, slitlike, close to eye; mouth nearly horizontal, upper 

 jaw slightly longer, more or less overlapping the lower; maxillary 

 1.70, reaching vertical from posterior margin of eye; interorbital 4, 

 rugose, flattened; margin and crest of preopercle smooth; broad 

 bands of small, villiform teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines; scales 

 ctenoid; lateral line arched, incomplete, 7 well-developed pores 

 anteriorly, indistinct traces of pores posteriorly. 



Fins rounded; first dorsal spine small, second half as long as the 

 third, the latter is longest and strongest, 2; second dorsal 1.75, 

 median rays longest ; anal 1.77; ventrals 1.75; pectorals 1.48. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color buff; a dusky brown stripe from 

 snout to eye, another from eye to throat, a third from upper third of 

 eye across opercles to lateral line, a fourth across nape; traces of 

 three stripes on sides, first from in front of dorsal downward toward 

 angle of preopercle, second from under origin of dorsal to behind 

 pectoral base, the third under middle of spinous dorsal; slight traces 

 of mottlings on first dorsal; ventrals mottled with grayish white; 

 other fins hyalin. 



Tijpe.— Cat. No. 70245, U.S.N.M., a female 4.7 cm. in length, with 

 nearly ripe eggs, from Talisse Island, north of Celebes. Ten cotypes 

 3.5 to 4.3 cm. in length. 



Color in life of a cotype 4 cm. long: Ground color hyalin pearl; a 

 brownish-red stripe from snout to eye, another from eye to throat, 

 another across nape and three downward from base of spinous dorsal, 

 these latter more or less olivaceous; spinous dorsal mottled finely 

 .with brownish; ventrals similarly mottled but darker; other fins 

 immaculate; abdominal regions and lower side of head with more or 

 less silver; iris very pale pink. 



AMIA DIVERSA Smith and Radclifie, new species. 

 Plate 37, fig. 1. 



Dorsal vii-i, 9; analii,8; scales 3 4-6-25. 



General shape fusiform in outline, strongly compressed; head 2.83, 

 pyramidal, the dorsal outline slightly concave at occiput; body deep, 

 dorsal and ventral outline strongly arched, greatest depth 2.60; 

 caudal peduncle long, tapering to base of caudal, slender, depth 2.23, 

 length 1.50; eye 2.62, large; snout 4.30, short, depressed; mouth 

 oblique, lower jaw projecting; maxillary 1.92, reaching slightly 

 beyond vertical from middle of eye; interorbital 3.66, flat; preoper- 

 cular margin finely serrate, crest and orbital bones smooth ; bands of 

 villiform teeth on jaws, those at symphysis and along outer edge of 

 lower jaw anteriorly, unequal; a row of small teeth on ridge of vomer 

 and palatines; peritoneum silvery white; scales regular. 



Fins low; first dorsal rounded, spines weak, third and fourth 

 longest, subequal, 2.25: anterior rays of second dorsal longest, 1.46, 



