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backward and downward from eye; about eight vertical silvery stripes on the side between pectoral 

 and region above middle of anal; a blackish saddle on caudal peduncle, and a black and white stripe 

 on each edge of caudal. In some specimens, however, any or all of these marks may be reduced 

 to mere traces. The silvery cross-streaks, the most characteristic of these traits, were wanting in 

 Giinther's types. Apparently the specimen called by Giinther Apogon fuscux was one in which all 

 the marks were obliterated. It is certain that this is not the fuscus of Quoy and Gaimard, which has 

 the caudal rounded and blotched with black. Bleeker is certainly wrong in regarding savayensis as the 

 same as Amia bandanensis. Garman's Apogon nubilus is apparently the young of this species with 

 the markings faded, although more distinct than in Giinther's type. 



Color in life of a specimen from Pago Pago, dusky olive, with seven narrow dull silvery cross- 

 streaks, each dark-edged on each side; other fainter streaks curved behind; a dusky saddle on caudal 

 peduncle, another under soft dorsal; fins dull red, first dorsal anteriorly black; a dark streak along 

 each caudal lobe; a dusky streak behind eye. 



A specimen from Apia in life was brownish olive; side with seven pinkish-white cross-streaks, 

 each edged with brown; an oblique brownish olive bar below eye; a jet black saddle on back of tail; 

 first dorsal blackish; other fins light brownish red; a black streak edged with orange down each lobe 

 of the caudal; tips of soft dorsal and anal light orange-red. 



Fig. 33. — Amia savayenMs (Giinther). 



The life colors of a young example from Apia were dull olive, faintly barred with paler, a large 

 black spot before base of caudal; no other markings; first dorsal black; other fins pale grayish. 

 Called fo by the Samoans. 



Another specimen from Pago Pago in life was dull olive, slightly reddish, with some silvery on sides, 

 arranged in cross-bands along muscles; a dark streak like a pencil mark across opercle, another down- 

 ward and backward from eye; a faint diffuse dark blotch above lateral line from base of caudal, then 

 joined saddlewise over back; first dorsal dusky; other fins purplish olive, the spine of second dorsal 

 dusky. Caudal lunate; dorsal vii; preopercle serrate. 



485. Amia koilomatodon (Bleeker). Samoa; Shortland I. ; Solomon Is. (Seale); East Indies. 



Head 2.60 in length; depth equal to head; eye 3.10 in head; dorsal vi-i, 10; anal n, 8; scales 2- 

 28-6; interorbital 1.50 in eye; snout 1.20 in eye. 



Body oblong, compressed, slightly elevated; caudal peduncle rather thick and strong, its depth 

 1.50 in length, which is equal to distance from anterior margin of eye to posterior margin of opercle; 

 mouth large; maxillary equal to post-ocular portion of head; its distal end under posterior margin of 

 pupil, the width of distal end slightly greater than pupil; villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatine; 



