FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 57 



CHROMIS AZURELINEATUS, new species 



Depth 12/3 to 134; head 2% to 31/3, width 1% to 1%. Snout 

 314 to 4 ; eye 2i/^ to 2%, greater than snout, 1 to li/4 in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches eje in young, not quite to eye though little beyond 

 nostril in adult, 3 to 314 in head ; teeth uniserial, compressed, anter- 

 iorly largest and each with slight median notch, laterals truncate; 

 interorbital 2% to 21^ in head, broadly convex; infraorbital and 

 preorbital edges entire, free ; hind preopercle edge entire. Gill rakers 

 8+17, lanceolate, slender, long. 



Tubes in lateral line 13 or 14, followed more or less irregularly by 

 5 to 7 pores; pores 12 or 13 in straight section to caudal base and 1 

 or 2 more on latter; 3 scales above lateral line, 11 below, 23 or 24 pre- 

 dorsal, but not forward quite to nostrils ; preorbital and infraorbitals 

 naked, with 3 rows of scales on cheek, of which lowest row on pre- 

 opercle flange; mandible scaly. 



D. XIV, 14, 1, fourteenth spine 1% to 1% in head, fifth ray IVs to 

 114 ; -A.. II, 15, I, second spine 1% to 1%, sixth ray 1 to li/g ; caudal 

 2% to 2^/2 in combined head and body, deeply forked, lobes slenderly 

 pointed and end in filament ; pectoral 2% ; ventral 2% to 3 ; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 1% to 2 in head. 



Brownish generally, little paler on under surface of head, breast, 

 and belly. Each scale on body with median vertical pale blue or 

 blue-gray curved line, parallel with scale edge and so arranged as 

 to produce oblique parallel lines over most all of side of body. 

 Scales at bases of vertical fins each with small blue-gray spot. 

 Scales on side of head with few light blue lines. Iris light brown, 

 golden narrow ring around pupil. Vertical fins all pale brown, 

 with preservation some examples showing upper and lower borders 

 of caudal broadly dusky, whereas ordinarily slightly deeper brown. 

 Pectorals pale, ventrals little more brownish terminally. 



EjQown only from the Philippines. A very handsome species, 

 unique in its color pattern of oblique blue lines on the side of the 

 body. The vertical fins and back often become much more dusky or 

 dark in formalin specimens. 



Ti/pe.— Cat. No. 8995T, U.S.N.M. 



5 examples, Candaraman Island, Balabac. January 4, 1909. Length. 50 to 

 02 mm. 



50 examples, Port Uson, west of Pinas Island. December 17, 1908. Length, 

 30 to 60 mm. [920.] Type. Bri-ht green with chrome shades; almost Vv-hite 

 below with green overshades. Terminal portion of dorsal with broad black 

 bar, forming point on second or third soft ray; spines slightly lilac and 

 pale below; soft fins pale, caudal pale, with broad black edges to lobes. 

 Anal similar to soft dorsal ; spines and membranes black terminally. Paired 

 fins dusky. 



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