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blackish bar near base, the tip blackish; anal same as soft dorsal; caudal dirty pink, with abroad 
blackish stripe along middle of each lobe, extending forward on median line of caudal peduncle above 
and below, these connected by a stripe; a curved black crossbar parallel with edge of fin; pectoral 
bright pink; ventrals pale pink, with black tips; body unmarked except a dusky shade across caudal 
peduncle connecting bases of the 2 caudal stripes. 
Color of another specimen (No. 03439), when fresh, coppery, with blue and silvery reflection over 
body and head; fins, except the black areas, rosy. 
Color in alcohol, light brown, becoming paler below and dusky grayish on belly; first 2 or 3 
dorsal spines and their connecting membranes black, rest of fin pale with very light brown specks; 
soft dorsal and anal white, each with a broad, jet-black bar extending across the rays, the anterior 
end on lower fourth of rays, the bar gradually rising until on the last rays it is near their tip; caudal 
pale with a broad jet-black crescent across its base and extending to tips of fin on the 2 or 3 outer rays 
but one, the outer ray being white; between this crescent and caudal peduncle a lighter area, the color 
of the bar, confined chiefly to the membranes; rest of fin white, with obscure dusky specks; ventrals 
Fig. 85. — ■Amia menesema (Jenkins); from the type. 
pale, w'ith a few r obscure dusky specks, tips of the longest 2 rays dark; pectoral pale, with obscure 
darkish punctulations; no trace of any streaks or bars On side of dark spot on caudal peduncle. 
The above description is based chiefly upon a specimen (No. 02919) 6.25 inches long, from 
Honolulu. 
This species is closely related to A. snyderi, from which it differs, however, in the smaller eye and 
the entire absence of the dark lateral stripe and the presence of a black crescent on the caudal fin; 
the black bar on the soft, dorsal and anal is in each case farther up on the fin than it is in A. snyderi. 
This species reaches a length of at least 7 inches and appears to be abundant among the Hawaiian 
Islands. Besides the numerous specimens in our own collection from Honolulu, Ililo, and Kailua, 
we have examined 11 examples obtained by Dr: Jenkins and others collected by the Albatross at 
Laysan Island and on the southern coast of Molokai. We have also a specimen from Papeete, Tahiti. 
Apogon menesemus Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 448, fig'. 19, Honolulu (Type, No. 50700, 
U. S. Nat. Mus., Coll. O. P. Jenkins); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 520 (Laysan Island; Honolulu; Albatross station 
. 3834). 
