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conic, inner series small, somewhat irregular; interorbital area rather 

 j broad, convex with a transverse depression, snout, suborbital, lower 

 jaw and opercles scaled; opercle and preopercle entire; caudal 

 peduncle stout, deep, compressed, nearly twice as deep as long; 

 I caudal shallow-emarginate, upper lobe a trifle the longer; spinous 

 dorsal nearly uniform in height from thhd to last spine, 1.8 in head, 

 about two-thirds height of soft dorsal which is somewhat pointed, 

 \ with fourth to eighth rays longest; anal similar to soft dorsal but 

 longer, fu-st spine small, second very large, tln-ee times first; base of 

 pectorals below origin of dorsal; base of ventrals below posterior base 

 of pectoral; ventrals rather long, reaching anal; scales large, ctenoid, 

 regular; lateral line following outline of back, ending below origin 

 of soft dorsal, beginning again on caudal peduncle, base of fuis scaled; 

 spinous dorsal depressible into groove of scales and with row of 

 scales on membrane between each two spines; body scales somewhat 

 angular at apex, not evenly curved. 



Color in alcohol : Ver}^ dark chocolate brown, shghtly lighter below, 

 and darker on head; all fins except the pectoral uniform blackish; 

 pectoral translucent, axil black, a large obscure round pale light spot 

 at base of last rays of dorsal and of anal; scales of body margined, 

 this giving a latticework impression. 



Type. — Of this species we have two specimens obtained by the 

 senior writer at Honolulu, the type 7 in. long, in the United States 

 National Museum (No. 73912), and a cotype a little smaller, sent 

 to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, the two found at the same 

 time in the market of Honolidu, in company with CJiromis ovalis. 



This is the deepest in body of all the species of ChroTuis. Its near- 

 est relative seems to be Chromis axillaris Bennett from Mauritius. 



It is well separated from the other two Hawaiian species. Chromis 

 ovalis Steindachner has a deeply forked caudal, and is more elongate. 

 Chromis elaphrus Jenkins is more elongate, and differs in various 

 details of form and color. 



In this connection, we may note that Myripristis herndti Jordan 

 and Evermann from Honolulu is not distinct from Ilyripristis 

 murdjan. Most of the specimens referred by Jordan and Evermann 

 to Mulloides samoensis seem to belong rather to Mulloides preorhitalis 

 (Smith and Swain) (not a Psevdupeneus) . Mulloides samoensis 

 occurs at Honolulu and was obtained at this time. The snout in 

 M. preorhitalis is longer and less decurved. The figure of ' ' Dascyllus 

 alhisella," reproduced by Jordan and Evermann from Bleeker, belongs 

 to Dascyllus trimaculatus of the East Indies. 



