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dull reddish; first dorsal spine black; a dark streak on base of dorsal and anal and upper and lower 

 caudal lobes; cheek and breast soiled silver. 



Color in alcohol, slightly dusky with fine dots; scarcely darker on back; a black lateral band 

 from tip of snout across eye, but not involving eye, tapering backward to base of middle caudal 

 rays; widest just behind eye; a conspicuous round black spot on caudal peduncle at base of caudal 

 rays, just above lateral line; a short light stripe with violet reflections on opercle bordering black 

 lateral stripe, below which opercle is silvery with violet reflections; upper and lower margins of 

 caudal bordered with black; dusky shades at base of soft dorsal and anal. 



Eight specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. This species is very close to Amia frenata and A. 

 melanorhynchus, differing in having the very distinct caudal spot above the termination of the jet black 

 lateral band and entirely separated from it, the band growing very faint before reaching the base of 

 the caudal. 



The lateral band is in this specie 3 very broad anteriorly, almost as broad as the eye, while in 

 A in in frenata this band is narrow. In Amia snyderi, also a closely related species, the lateral band 

 and its terminal spot are broad and diffuse. 



The type is from Apia; it is 3 inches in length, and is no. 51732, U. S. National Museum. 



479. Amia menesema (Jenkins). Hawaii. 



480. Amia crassiceps (Ganr.au). Fiji; Samoa. 



Apogon crassiceps Garnian, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. 1903, Suva (Fiji). 

 One large specimen taken at Apia. 



Fig. 32. — Amia crassiceps (Garnian). 



481. 

 482. 

 483. 



Amia evermanni (Jordan & Snyder). Hawaii. 



Amia orbicularis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Radack I.; East Indies. 



Amia g-uamensis (Valenciennes). Guam. 

 Apogon guamensis Valenciennes, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist., i, 55, 1831, Guam. 

 A deep-bodied, plain-colored species with large head and one limb only of the opercle serrate; 

 caudal notched. This species may be the same as .1. crassiceps. 



484. Amia savayensis (Giinther). Savaii, Samoa; Tonga; Yap; Tahiti; Fiji; Fate; Shortland I. 

 and Raiatea (Seale); East Indies. 



Apogon savayensis Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1871, G5G, Savaii (Samoa). Giinther, Fisehe der Stidsee, 21, taf. 19, 



' fig. B, Samoa, Tonga, Yap, Tahiti, Celebes. Seale, Bishop Mus. lyoi, Fishes Guam, 76, Guam 

 Apogon bandanensis Steinrtachner; not of Bleeker, who has wrongly identified savayensis with bandanensis. 

 Apogon fuscus Giinther, Fisehe derSiidsee, 22, Fiji. 

 Apogon nvbiXus Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1903, Suva (Fiji). 



This species is very common about the Samoan Islands. We have about 100 specimens from Apia 

 and Pago Pago. Ordinarily the color markings are very distinct. There is an oblique black streak 



