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17 examples, Tara Island. December 15, 1908. Length, 38 to 90 mm. [803.] 

 Pale green, palest below and posteriorly. Dorsal spines bright orange, color 

 carried somewhat into memljranes in another portion of fin. Obscure dusky 

 lines on scale rows of side. 



{Asura, azure: lineatu^, lined; with reference to the bhie lines 

 on the sides of the body.) 



Lepidochromis, new subgenus 



Type. — Chrotms lepidolepis Bleeker, 



Each body scale with several small auxiliary basal scales. 



( AcTTts, scale ; Chroinis; with reference to the auxiliary basal scales. ) 



CHROMIS LEPIDOLEPIS Bleeker 



Ghramis Jepidolepis Bleetkek, Verslag. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, 

 ser. 2, vol. 10, 1876, p. 389. Timor; Atlas Ich. Ind. Neerl., vol. 9, 1877, 

 pi. 403 (4), fig. 2; Nat. Verb. Holl. Maatscli. Harlem, (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 

 2, 1877, p. 154 (Timor). 



Depth 2; head Si/g to 3l^, width 13^4 to 1%. Snout 4 to 4i/^; 

 eye 214 to 2%, gi'eater than snout or interorbital ; maxillary reaches 

 pupil, 2% to 3 in head ; teeth biserial, outer row enlarged, especially 

 in front of jaws; interorbital 2% to 3 in head, broadly convex; hind 

 preopercle edge minutely serrated. Gill rakers ll-j-22, lanceolate, 

 slender, rather long. 



Tubes in lateral line 17, followed irregularly with 4 or 5 pores; 

 horizontal section with 5 to 7 pores to caudal base and 1 or 2 more 

 on latter; 3 scales above lateral line, 9 below, 20 to 23 predorsal 

 which extend forward only opposite to nostril; infraorbital and pre- 

 orbital scaly, 4 rows on cheek with uppermost row on infraorbitals, 

 edge of which not free. Each scale on body with about 3 basal auxil- 

 iary scales, median largest. Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating striae ; 

 apical denticles 117 to 126, small basal elements in 2 or 3 transverse 

 series ; circuli very fine. 



D. XII, 11, 1 or 12, 1, fifth spine 1% to 2 in head, fifth ray I14 to 

 1% ; A. II, 11, 1, second spine I14 to II/2, third anal ray 1% to l^^ ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2 ; caudal 2% to 2% in combined head 

 and body, deeply forked, lobes sharply pointed; pectoral 1 to V/g 

 in head; ventral 1 to 1%. 



Brown generally, with drab-gray to ecru-drab tints on sides, very 

 pale to whitish on under surface of head and abdomen. Iris yellow- 

 ish-brown. Mandible pale like under surface of head. Fins all dull 

 brown, spinous dorsal and front of soft anal little deeper. Upper 

 and lower edges of caudal broadly deep brown. Pectorals pale. 

 Ventrals little deeper brown at tips. 



East Indian region. Not previously reported from the Philip- 

 pines. It is a dull-colored species, but known by the presence of 



