NEW SERRANID FISHES^ — SCHULTZ 329 



12b. Coloration not as above. 



13a. Sides of body with 7 or 8 distinct, almost straight lengthwise dark 

 brown streaks. 

 14a. Five brown streaks on each side of caudal peduncle; S]i or 4 

 scales between lateral line and last doral spine; predorsal scales 



12 or 13 to occiput C. lineata (Schultz)i5 



14b. Four brown streaks on each side of caudal peduncle; 3 scales 

 between lateral line and second dorsal origin; predorsal scales 



10 to occiput C. susumi Jordan and Seale '^ 



13b. Four or 5 dark streaks on each side of body; 3 dark streaks on each 

 side of caudal peduncle. 

 15a. Five dark streaks on each side cf body; pectoral rays ii,12; tips 

 of posterior lobes of median fins with black blotches (Cuba; 



Bahama Islands) C. rubruni (Poey)i^ 



15b. Four dark streaks on each side of body; pectoral rays ii,13 

 (Zanzibar) C. africanum Smith '^ 



15 Ypsigramma lineata Schultz. U. S. Xat. Mus. Bull. 202, vol. 1, p. 355, fig. 59, 195.3 (Marshall and Philippine 



Islands) . 

 Choristisliuni susumi (not Jordan and Scale) Smith, J. L. B., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 12, vol. 7, p. 862, 



pi. 27, fig. c, 1954 (Matemo Island, off East African Coast). 

 i« Chorististium susumi Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), p. 256, flg. 48, 1906 (Apia, 



Samoa). 

 " Liopropoma rubre Poey, Memorias, vol. 2, p. 418, 1861 (Cuba). 

 " Chorististium africanum Smith, J. L. B., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 12, vol. 7, p. 866, flg. 1, pi. 27, flg. B, 



1954 (Pinda Pemhra, Zanzibar and Tekomazi Island). 



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