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Three specimens from Apia. The type is no. 51812, U. S. National Museum; length 1.87 inches. 



Dr. Gunther identifies his specimens, apparently similar, with Apogon hypselonotus, but Dr. Bleeker 

 is apparently correct in regarding the species of the South Seas as distinct. The species resembles 

 Amia erythrina, but the dorsal spines are stronger and longer than in the latter, and the physiognomy 

 is different. 



FIG. 39. — Amia doryssa Jordan & Seale, new species. Type. 



505. Amia lateralis (Valenciennes). Samoa; Vanicolo. 



Apogon lateralis Valenciennes, Nouv. Ann. Hist. Nat., I, £8, 183"2, Vanicolo. 

 Head«2.40 in length; depth 2.75; eye i>,75 in head; snout 4; dorsal vi-i, 9; anal n, 8; scales, 

 1.5-26-5; interorbital scarcely equal to eye. 



Fig. 40. — Amia lateralis (Valenciennes). 



Body oblong, comprassed, and somewhat elevated; mouth large; maxillary 2.15 in head, its distal 

 end under posterior margin of pupil; teeth in villiform bands on jaws; vomer and palatines; cheek 

 scaled; preopercle with the outer limb very slightly denticulate, the teeth finer above, the inner limb 



a Including opercular flap in all descriptions of Ambassis and Amia. 



