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jet-black with slate-blue blotches just beneath; soft dorsal jet-black except 

 vertical edge which broadly hyaline. Caudal peduncle and caudal white, 

 fin edged and tipped with dusky and with small black spot in center of base. 

 Anal jet-black, vertical edge narrowly hyaline. Ventral jet-black except 

 lower three or four rays, which bluish. Pectoral membrane hyaline, rays 

 with black at joints. Iris blackish, with silvery shades. 



3 examples, Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 138 to 160 mm. 



1 example, Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. Length, 128 mm. 



13251 and 13626. Bira Birahan Island, of£ Borneo. December 31, 1909. Length, 

 125 to 140 mm. 



1 example, Basa Reef, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 17, 1909. Length, 

 147 mm. 



12915 and 12916. Buka Buka Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. November 20, 

 1909. Length, 132 to 138 mm. 



1 example, Dodepo and Pasejogo Islands, Celebes. November 19, 1909. Length, 

 127 mm. 



2 examples, Labuandata Bay, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 18, 1909. 

 Length, 120 to 122 mm. 



14743. Limbe Straits, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length, 120 mm. 

 13639 and 13040, 14925. Una Una Road, Binaug Unang Island, Gulf of Tomini, 

 Celebes. November 17 and 18, 1909. Length, 104 to 153 mm. 6 examples. 



CHROMIS LINEATUS, new species 



Depth 2; hecad 3 to 31^4, width V/2 to 1%, Snout 41/5 to 41/2; 

 eye 2% to 2%, greater than snout, equals interorbital, though greater 

 in young; maxillary not quite reaching eye, though little beyond 

 front eye edge in young; length 2% to 3 in head; teeth uniserial, 

 conic, compressed; interorbital 2% to 21/^ in head, broadly convex; 

 infraorbitals and preopercles not free; hind preopercle edge entire. 

 Gill rakers 6+17, slender, lanceolate, long. 



Tubes in lateral line 14 or 15, follov^-ed by 4 or 5 irregular pores; 

 pores in straight section 10 or 11 to caudal base; 2 scales above 

 lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 8 or 9 below, 16 or 17 predorsal 

 forward to snout tip; preorbital and infraorbitals closely scaled so 

 that 4 rows on cheek from lower eye edge. Scales with 7 or 8 basal 

 radiating striae, edge scalloped; apical denticles 78 to 94, very small, 

 basal elements to 2 series transversely. 



D. XII, 11, I, fifth spine 1% to 2 in head, sixth ray II/3 to 11/2 ; 

 A. II, 11 I, second spine 2% to 23^4, first ray 1% to 1%; caudal 

 strongly forked, pointed lobes ending in short filaments, 2% to 2% 

 in combined head and body; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% to 

 2 in head ; pectoral l^s ; ventral 1 to ll^. 



Upper surfaces of head and body brown, little paler and with 

 soiled appearance on head below, breast, and abdomen. Side of 

 body with about 11 grayish longitudinal bands, not quite wide as 

 pupil and each bordered with brown line. Head with grayish spots 

 and blotches bordered with brown lines. Iris dusW brown, with 



