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chin to eye; traces of a continuation of tills band across opercles^ most 

 distinct at preopercle, traces of a silvery marginal line above and 

 below; a narrow black girdle encircles caudal peduncle at base of 

 caudal, darkest at point where it crosses lateral line; a broad, dusky, 

 black band across anterior dorsal spines; a subbasal black band on 

 second dorsal and anal, the black is confined to the membranes; rest 

 of fins liyalin. 



Type.— Csit. No. 70247, U.S.N.M., 9.1 cm. in length, taken with a 

 beam trawl February 15, 1908, at station 5143 (lat. 6° 05' 50'' N.; 

 long. 121° 02' 15" E.), in vicinity of Jolo, at a depth of 19 fathoms, 

 on a bottom of coral sand. 



This species resembles A. jenkinsi Evermann and Scale from the 

 Philippines. The lower jaw is not so pointed and projects less; 

 nuchal spots and traces of stripes on head are lacking; the large 

 caudal spot is replaced by a narrow black girdle, and the bands on 

 dorsal and anal are more distinct and at a distance from base of rays. 

 A. spilura (Regan) is also similar, but it has no black stripe on second 

 dorsal nor girdle on caudal peduncle; and it has a blackish stripe at 

 base of anal, a sUghtly larger eye, and ventral surface less strongly 

 decurved. 



Among the specimens from the type locaUty are several gravid 

 females and a male with eggs in mouth. 



AMIA UNINOTATA Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 

 Plate 34, fig. 3. 



Dorsal vii-i,9; anal ii,8; scales 3+6-24. 



General form elUptical ovate; head 2.40, conic; body robust, dorsal 

 outline strongly arched, depth 2.45; caudal peduncle slender, com- 

 pressed, depth 2.37, length 1.70; eye 3.10; snout 3.70, rounded; 

 nostrils close together, near tip of snout, the anterior tubular, the tube 

 about three-fifths diameter of pupil in length; posterior nostril slitlike, 

 just above and behind base of anterior; mouth nearly horizontal, lower 

 jaw slightly projecting; maxillary 1.85, barely reaching vertical from 

 posterior margin of pupil; interorbital 4.40, flattened, rugose; margin 

 of preopercle a,nd crest smooth; teeth on jaws villiform, in bands; 

 those on vomer and palatines in a single row, along the ridge; scales 

 regular, ctenoid; lateral line strongly arched, complete, 24 pores. 



Fins rounded; first dorsal spine very small; second slender, less than 

 half as long as the third, the latter is longest and strongest, 2.18; 

 second dorsal 1.95; anal 2.18; ventrals 1.85, barely reaching base of 

 anal; pectorals 1.60, tips reaching vertical to first anal spine. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color sepia, margins of scales darker; a 

 blackish slate spot about three-fourths as large as eye on side above 

 middle of pectoral; a light-colored oblique line halves the black blotch; 

 a slaty line from eye downward toward angle of preopercle, traces of 



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