526 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. yol. 42. 



Body scales fairly large, becoming smaller ventrall}^; unpaired fins 

 entirely scaled; paired ones scaled mainly at base; head, including 

 snout, cheeks, and orbitals entirely covered with small scales; all 

 scales rouglily ctenoid. 



Color in spirits : Ground color white, broken by many narrow, dark 

 bands, or reticulations. On the body behind the head are about 21 

 of these running transversely; those on the posterior half extend 

 entirely across, while those back of the pectoral turn abruptly in a 

 horizontal direction; head covered with numerous similar stripes, 

 confluent above, and joinmg others on the breast below; four or five 

 of these cross the interorbital area, while between the dorsal fm and 

 the snout are 13 or 14, one of which forms a complete ring around the 

 mouth on the lips. Spmous dorsal pale, broken by extensions of the 

 body stripes; soft dorsal darker, with reticulations and three or four 

 horizontal wavy dark bars, tip edged with black; caudal dark; anal 

 similar to soft dorsal, but markings largely obliterated by general dark 

 color; pectorals and ventrals white, except for ventral filaments. On 

 each side, behmd and above the pectoral base, is a large, black blotch, 

 of irregular outline, conspicuous in fresh specimens, but possibly 

 fading with age. 



Color in life: The light spaces on the body were pale pink or flesh 

 color, the darker cross-streaks were of carnelian or dull red-orange. 

 The soft parts of the vertical fins were blackish, the edges bright 

 lustrous blue. 



This species is quite distinct from otner Plawauan species m color 

 and form, as well as many less conspicuous characters. 



This little fish was seen alive by Doctor Jordan in the Waikiki 

 aquarium at Honolulu. It was recognized as a new species and one 

 of exquisite delicacy of coloration. 



Type. — The type was presented to the United States National 

 Museum by Mr. Frederic A. Potter, director of the aquarium, for 

 whom the species is named. The specimen was taken from the coral 

 reef at Honolulu. It is numbered 73911 in the United States 

 National Museum. It is 2.9 inches in length. 



CHROMIS VERATER Jordan and Metz, new species. 

 Plate 71, fig. 2. 



Head 3.75 in length to base of caudal, depth 1.80. Dorsal rays 

 XIV, 13; anal 11, 14; scales 4-27; pores 18; eye 3 in head; snout 

 4.25; maxillary 3; interorbital space 2.80. 



Body short, very deep, ovate, much compressed; dorsal outHne 

 evenly curved, except for a sUght interorbital depression; ventral 

 outline sHghtly less curved; head as deep as long, snout short, blimt; 

 mouth small, inclined upward; maxillary reaching to below anterior 

 margin of eye; teeth in two series, the outer rather strong, bluntly 



