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ish. Pectoral brownish, with large blackish-brown blotch, nearly- 

 large as eye on base mostly above. Ventral blackish-brown, rays 

 and spine pale. Dusky line from snout tip to eye. 



Length 115 mm. 



Type, No. 47,518, A. N. S. P. 



Philippine Islands. Presented by the Commercial Museums of 

 Philadelphia. 



Allied with P. melano'pterus Bleeker, but differs in the presence 

 of the dark line from the eye to the snout. 



(rpa/j-fxr^j line; p^yz"^) snout.) 

 Pomacentrus hebardi sp. nov. Fig. 18. 



Head 3; depth 2; D. XIII, 14, i; A. II, 13, i; P. ii, 15; V. I, 5; 

 tubes 17 in upper arch of lateral line and 8? pores in straight section 

 to caudal base; 3 scales above 1.1. to spinous dorsal origin and 9 

 below in vertical series to anal origin; 20 predorsal scales; head 

 width If its length; head depth 1; snout 3|; eye 2f ; maxillary 3|; 

 interorbital 2|; last dorsal spine 2^; second anal spine 2; eleventh 

 dorsal ray 2?; ninth anal ray If; pectoral 1|; ventral spine 2; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2i; caudal 1. 



Body well compressed, contour evenly and elongately ellipsoid, 

 deepest medianly, and edges convexly rounded. Caudal peduncle 

 compressed, length about f its least depth. 



Head compressed, moderately large, rather flattened sides evenly 

 converging above and below. Snout rather broad, slightly convex 

 in profile and evenly so over surface, and length f its width. Eye 

 rounded, little elevated, and hind pupil edge nearly midway in head 

 length. Mouth small, short gape oblique, and lower jaw very slightly 

 protruded. Lips moderate, fleshy. Maxillary extends back nearly 

 opposite front eye edge. Teeth small, simple, compressed, rather 

 obtuse and form as crowded in a single series nearly even cutting- 

 edge. No teeth on mouth roof. Tongue pointed, depressed and 

 smooth above, free in front. Inner buccal folds broad. Mandibular 

 rami moderately elevated inside mouth. Nostril simple pore slightly 

 behind middle, in snout length. Interorbital slightly convex. Pre- 

 orbital width 2| in eye, with broad flat short spine directed back 

 from hind edge. Suborbital edge with few irregular serrse below. 

 Preopercle edge obliquely forward not quite opposite eye center, 

 and 18 irregular serrse behind, though graduated larger downwards, 

 and lower edge entire. Opercle with 2 obtuse short spines. 



Gill-opening forward about opposite last | in eye. Rakers 6 + 13, 

 lanceolate, slightly shorter than filaments, which 2 in eye. Pseudo- 



