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Head 2.5 in length; depth 2.75 to 2.9; eye 3 in head, 8.5 to 9 in length to 
base caudal; snout 4.7 to 4.9 in head; interorbital 4.2; dorsal VI-I, 9; anal Hale 
16 or 17; scales 3-25-5. 
Body noticeably more elongate and thinner than in Archamia macropterus? 
(Bleeker) ; depth of caudal peduncle 2.3 in head; profile straight to a point over 
front of eye, the tip of the snout a very little upturned ; mouth large, upturned ; 
maxillary 2.2 in head; maxillary extending to nearly under middle of eye; upper 
lip on level with middle of eye; tip of lower jaw slightly projecting when mouth is 
closed ; minute villiform teeth in jaws and on vomer and palatines; no canines; 16 
gill-rakers on lower limb of outer arch, longer than the corresponding filaments, the 
longest about 2 in eye; preopercle finely denticulated about angle on both hinder 
and lower margin; operculum with a thin flat point, even with middle of eye, 
and a little above*it a second less prominent point; scales ctenoid; lateral line 
apparently complete (some scales missing in all specimens); cheeks scaled ; origin 
of spinous dorsal half-way between axil of soft dorsal and front of eye; longest 
dorsal spine 2.7 in head, first dorsal spine 3 second ; origin of anal a little in front 
of that of soft dorsal; ventrals 1.8 in head, their origin slightly in front of base of 
pectorals ; pectorals 1.4; caudal weakly emarginate. 
Color in spirits light straw, rather sparsely and faintly punctulated above on 
head and body ; lower parts of sides and belly nearly plain; a small but very dis- 
tinct blotch at base of caudal, its diameter less than one-half that of pupil; tip of 
lower jaw dusky ; dorsals, caudal, and anal tinged with dusky ; no fin with dark 
tip or edge; no spot on shoulder. 
Described from six specimens from Takao, two to two and one-half inches long. 
This species seems to be well distinguished from Archamia macropteroides by its 
slenderer form, smaller eye, different coloration, fewer punctulations tending to 
form no pattern, and the prominent but very small caudal spot. ‘The first 
dorsal spine is little shorter than the second, which is also the case in Archamia 
bleekert: Giinther (= Apogon macropterus Bleeker, not Kuhl & Van Hasselt). In 
Archamia macropteroides the first spine is scarcely more than half the length of the 
second. In Archamia bleckeri there is a distinct black blotch on the shoulder, as 
well as at base of caudal. In Archamia macropteroides the caudal spot is much less 
distinct, and the shoulder spot indistinct or absent. Archamia fucata (Cantor) 
has a smaller mouth and most of the other nominal species have fewer rays in the 
anal fin. 
?The specimen from Samoa called Archamia lineolata by Jordan & Seale should probably stand as Archamia 
macropteroides. Archamia lineolata from the Red Sea with fourteen soft rays in the anal and with twelve dark cross 
streaks must be different and also distinct from the present species. 
