GO Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 



Family Serranidae. 

 Anthias tenuis, sp. nov. 



More slender with a greater number of scales than Anthias louisi T. H. 

 Bean, also described from Bermuda. The type, No. 7310, American 

 Museum of Natural History, was collected at Bermuda, by Mr. Louis L. 

 Mowbray, on December 17. It is 68 mm. long to base of caudal. Head 

 3.6 in this length, depth 3.4. Snout 4.7 in head, eye 3.3, maxillary 2.0, 

 interorbital 3.6, longest dorsal spine, 2.2, dorsal ray 2.7, anal spine 3.5, 

 anal ray 2.8, pectoral 1.2, ventral 1.3, caudal 1.9, depth of peduncle 2.2. 



Lower jaw projecting, maxillary to beyond center of eye, interorbital 

 slightly convex. Center of upper jaw notched, its teeth small, in more 

 than one row anteriorly. Those in the lower jaw in a single row, with 

 canines, preopercle serrulate, two weak, flat spines at its angle, the upper 

 the longer. Opercle with two weak, flat spines at its angle, the lower the 

 longer. Snout naked, scales extending forward to above center of eye, 

 maxillary scaled. Lateral line with a downward angle under the axil of 

 the soft dorsal. Lateral line about 54. About 5 scales between lateral 

 line and origin spinous dorsal, 3 between lateral line and middle of same. 

 Dorsal spines weak and fragile. Caudal forked, the lobes bluntly rounded. 

 Dorsal X, 15. Anal III, 9. 



Color in spirits uniform pale brownish, likely rosy in life. 



Besides the type there is a specimen 50 mm. to base of caudal from 

 Bermuda. 



Family Pomacentridae. 

 Chromis bermudae, sp. nov. 



Allied to C. enchrysurus, from which it differs in technical details. The 

 type, No. 7317, American Museum of Natural History, was collected at 

 Bermuda by Mr. Louis L. Mowbray. It is 60 mm. long to base of caudal. 

 Head 3.1 in this length, depth 2.5 Snout 4.0 in head, eye 2.7, maxillary 

 3.5, interorbital 3.0, pectoral 1.0, ventral 1.2 with filamentous tip, longest 

 dorsal spine 2.0, dorsal ray 1.7, second anal spine 1.7, longest anal ray 

 1.7, caudal 1.2, caudal peduncle 2.0, its depth slightly greater than its 

 length. 



Interorbital broad, almost flat. Outer ventral rays excerted. Lobe of 

 soft dorsal to or beyond caudal base. Caudal shallowly forked, the lobes 

 blunt. Lateral line 27. DorsalXIV.il. Anal II, 11. 



Color in spirits; purplish above, paler below; axil of pectoral black. 

 Paired fins, peduncle and caudal yellowish. 



Three other small specimens with the same data are in a poor state of 

 preservation as though taken from the stomach of some larger fish. 



Family Labridae. 



Small wrasses are particularly numerous and variable about Bermuda 

 and it is somewhat of a problem to classify them properly. To do so 

 would probably entail a thorough revision of the group. The characters 

 which separate the different species are slight and often variable. For 



