6 predorsal scales; snout 4% in head from upper jaw tip; 
eye 21/5; maxillary 2; interorbital 4. Length 54 to 75 
mm, One from Samoa end 2 from Fiji. One also labeled 
"F444 or Oahu" and another "Fiji or Samoa". Although in 
very poor condition all these exemples show traces of very 
pale dark streak across cheek to corner of preopercle, 
_Amia maculifera (Garrett). 
Head 2 2/5 to 28; depth 24 to 2 7/8; D. VII - I, 9, 
1; A. II, 8,1; scales 24 in lateral line to caudal base 
and 2 or % more on latter; 2 or 3 scales above lateral 
line to spinous dorsal origin, 6 or 7 below; predorsal 
scales 5; snout 4 to 4 1/5 in head; eye 3 to 3%; maxil- 
lary 2 to 2 1/8; interorbital 4 2/5 to 5, 
Body ovate; well compressed. Head width 2 1/8 in 
its length. Snout convex, length 3/4 to 4/5 its width, 
Eye impinging on upper profile, hind pupil edge slightly 
advanced before middle in head length. Jaws about even 
or mandible very slightly protruding with slight 1 symphy- 
seal tubercle. Maxillary to hind pupil edge, about midway 
in eye in young; expansion 2 in eye. ands of villiform 
teeth in jaws, few in vomer, none on palatines or tongue, 
Interorbital flattened. Preopercle edge with fine serrae 
its whoe length, ridge entire. Rakers S16 or 17, lan- 
ceolate, about 2% in eye; filaments 2/3 of rakers, Scales 
large, adherent, basal radiating striae 9 or 10; apical 
serrae 95 to 98; circuli moderate; 2 rows of ecales on cheek 
