﻿64 The Philippine Journal of Science m* 



Amia marginatus Doderlein. 



Color in alcohol yellowish ; top of head and nuchal region with 

 fine black specks; top of dorsals black, a black band through 

 middle of soft dorsal; tips of anal and caudal dusky. (6290, 

 6294, 6302, 6348.) 



Amia doderleini Jordan and Snyder. 



Color in alcohol yellowish; a blackish stripe from snout 

 through eye to the round distinct caudal spot; a dark line from 

 above eye to near the upper margin of the caudal spot, another 

 from subopercle to just below the caudal spot, another (fre- 

 quently obliterated) on sides of belly, and another (often oblit- 

 erated) along the base of the dorsal fins; a black line through 

 bases of anal and soft dorsal; tips of caudal, soft dorsal, and 

 anal grayish. (6266, 6292, 6298.) 



Amia semilineatus (Schlegel). 



Color in alcohol yellowish white; a jet black caudal spot; 

 a black line from tip of snout through eye to posterior margin 

 of opercle, another from snout over interorbital space to below 

 origin of soft dorsal, and a third on median line of nuchal 

 region; tip of spinous dorsal black. (6304.) 



Amia lineatus (Schlegel). 



Color in alcohol yellowish white, with a silvery wash on sides ; 

 about 11 or 12 vertical dark bars on each side, scarcely as wide 

 as interspaces; tip of spinous dorsal and tip of caudal grayish. 

 (6345, 6353.) 



Amia kiensis Jordan and Snyder. 



This is undoubtedly the species discovered and figured by 

 Jordan and Snyder, but I suspect that it is A. frxnata of Valen- 

 ciennes; it is most certainly the species figured by Day as A. 

 frxnata. All of our specimens are without the caudal spot, 

 the dark line from tip of snout extends to tip of caudal, the 

 second dusky line is from tip of snout above eye to upper 

 margin of caudal peduncle; the most persistent marking in all 

 ages is the dusky tip to ventrals which is present in all speci- 

 mens. There is a dark line through base of anal and soft dorsal. 

 (6296, 6297, 6300, 6301, 6310, 6325, 6327, 6328, 6329, 6333, 

 6334, 6336, 6338, 6339, 6340, 6343, 6351, 6354, 6357, 6359.) 



