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1 example, Uki, Bouro Island. December 9, 1909. Length, 5G mm. 



14639. Buka Buka Island, Tomini Gulf, Celebes. November 20, 1909. 2 ex- 

 amples. Length, 44 to 57 mm. 



12776. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. 7 examples. Length, 30 

 to 65 mm. 



11174. Nan Wan Bay, South Formosa. January 25, 1910. Length, 86 mm. 



DoRYCHROMis, new subgenus 



Type. — HeUases cmalis Cuvier. 



Distinguished by the long second anal spine, but little shorter 

 than the head. 



(Aopv, lance; Chroniis; with reference to the second anal spine.) 



CHEOMIS ANALIS (Cuvier) 



Heliases analis Cuvier, Hist, Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 496. Amboina. — 



Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4. 1874, p. 117 (China). 

 Eeliastes analis Gunthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 62 (Am- 



boyna). 

 Chromis analis Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. N4erl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 405 (6), 



fig. 1; Nat. Verb. Holl. Maatsch. Harlem, (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 1877, 



p. 156 (Buru and Amboina). 

 Heliases macrochir Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 5, 1853, p. 346. 



Amboina. 



Depth 1% to 1%; liead 3 to Si/s, width 1% to 17s- Snout 334 

 to 4^8 ; eye 2% to 2%, greater than snout or interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches little beyond front eye edge, to front pupil edge in adult, 3 

 to 3% in head; teeth conic, biserial, inner row smaller; interorbital 

 3, broad, scarcely elevated; infraorbital extremely narrow, edge en- 

 tire; preopercle edge entire. Gill rakers 7+20, lanceolate, slender, 

 rather short. 



Tubes in lateral line 16, pores in straight section 8 to 10+2; 3 

 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 9 below, 27 pre- 

 dorsal well forward of nostril but not quite to snout edge; 5 or 6 

 rows of cheek scales, compact, uppermost narrowly on infraorbital 

 and extended forward entirely over preorbital to nostril. Scales 

 with 9 or 10 basal radiating striae, to 3 auxiliaries; apical denticles 

 140 or 141, with 5 to 9 transverse series of basal elements. 



D. XIII, 12, 1, fifth spine li/o to 1% in head, fourth ray II/3 to 1%, 

 first ray often simple; A. II, 11, i, second spine IV5 to 1^4, first ray II/3 

 to 1%, often simple; caudal sharply forked, 2i^ to 2% in combined 

 head and body; pectoral 2% to 2%; ventral 2% to 2%; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2 to 2^ in head. 



Back light brown, sides and lower surface light yellowish. Iris 

 yellowish. Infraorbital grayish-white. Base of spinous dorsal 

 neutral brown, all fins otherwise yellowish white. Small brown spot 

 at pectoral origin and axil pale. 



