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This species is very abundant at Pago Pago and Apia, and we have about 100 specimens. Length 

 3.25 inches. We have not seen the plate of Mullus fasciatus, published by John White. From the 

 account of Cuvier and Valenciennes this species, like quadrifazciata, has but two black stripes on each 

 side. The present species, Apogon fasciatus of most authors, has five (or four) stripes o:i each side, two 

 of them converging to meet the middle stripe on the caudal fin. These stripes are relatively narrow, 

 and are again narrowed in two or three places. A black spot at the base of the pectoral is also very 

 constant. 



Concerning the types of Apogon nocemfasciatus, Dr. Leon Vaillant writes: 



Je viens d' examiner les deux specimens qu'on peut regarder comme types primitifs de Cuvier et Valenciennes; Ce sont 

 deux individus isoles, ]■ un rapporte de Timor par Peron, ¥ autre de Guam par Quoy et Gaimard. 



Le premier est un pjtit exemplaire, long de 60 + 12 = 52 mm. en mediocre etat, en grand partie decolore; tout ee qu' on 

 peut dire, c'est que les bandes laterales se voient sur la partie basilaire de la caudale (No. 5646) 



L' etat du second est plus satisfaisant. La longueur est de 40 + 12 = 52 mm. Les trois lignes sombres laterales, se 

 prolongent visiblement sur la caudale, la superieure, et 1' inferieur convergeant nettement, 1' une versl' autre enarriere 

 (No. 853). 



The second of these specimens evidently corresponds to the Amia novemfasciata of the present 

 paper, and the other, which is properly the type of noremfasciatus, is almost certainly a discolored 

 example of the same species, as the black spots are seen on the base of the caudal fin. In Apogon 

 aroubiensis of Hombron and Jacquinot the black spots do not encroach on the caudal fin at all. 



491. Amia amboinensis (Bleeker). New Guinea (Macleay); Shortland I. (Seale); East Indies. 



492. Amia sangiensis (Bleeker). Fiji (Giinther); New Guinea (Macleay); Yap (Gunther); East 



Indies. 



493. Amia fleurieu (Lacepede). New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies 



(Ostorhinchus fl.eu.rieu Lacepede; Centropomus aureus Lacepede; Apogon annularis Riippell; Apogon roseipinnis 

 Cuvier & Valenciennes.) 



494. Amia tsenioptera (Bennett). New Guinea (Macleay) ; East Indies. • 



495. Amia buruensis (Bleeker). Normanbyl.; New Guinea (Macleay). 



496. Amia trimaculata (Cuvier & Valenciennes). New Guinea; East Indies. 



Amiafusca (Quoy & Gaimard). 



497. Amia fusca (Quoy & Gaimard). Samoa. 



Apogon fuscus Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 345, 1S24, Guam. 



Head 2.85 in length; depth 3; eye 2.75 in head; snout 4.80; dorsal vi-i, 8; anal n, 8; scales 2-23-6; 

 interorbital equal to snout. 



Body oblong, compressed, head and body scaled; caudal peduncle long, 3.10 in length of fish, its 

 depth 2.55 in head; jaws even; maxillary 1.95 in head, its distal end under posterior margin of pupil; 



