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outer three or four. Anal similar to soft dorsal. Ventrals dusky. Pectorals 

 dusky hyaline, with yellowish at base and in axil. 

 14127. Tifu Bay, Bouro Island. December 10, 1909. Length, 136 mm. Type. 



{Reticulatus, net-like, with reference to the dark edges of the 

 scales.) 



CHROMIS WEBERI, new name 



Pomacentrus anahatoldCH (not Bleekek) Beajx and Weed, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 608 (Java). 



Depth 21/8 to 2%; head 31^ to 31/3, width l^A to 1%- Snout 

 3% to 4; eye 3 to 3%; maxillary '2% to 31/3, reaches opposite front 

 pupil edge; upper teeth in 2 rather distinct bands, outer of single 

 larger conic teeth and inner band irregularly biserial and smaller; 

 lower teeth with 4 enlarged conic anterior teeth and rest small 

 irregular biserial band; interorbital 2% to 3, broadly convex. Gill 

 rakers 9+19, lanceolate. 



Tubes in lateral line 18 or 19, pores in straight section 7 to 9 to 

 caudal base +1 more sometimes; 3 scales above lateral line to 

 spinous dorsal origin, 6 below, 30 to 32 predorsal forward close to 

 upper lip edge; rayed vertical fins very finely scaled. Scales with 

 8 to 11 basal nearly parallel marginal striae, sometimes 1 to 7 more 

 incomplete auxiliaries; apical denticles 92 to 125, with 2 or 3 trans- 

 verse series of basal elements ; circuli very fine. 



D. XII or XIII, 10 or 11, fourth spine 1% to 2 in head, fourth 

 ray II/5 to fi/^; A. II, 10 or 11, second spine 1% to 2, first ray I14 

 to 1% ; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% to 21/3 ; caudal deeply 

 forked, 21/^ to 2l^ in combined bead and body ; pectoral 3% to 3i/4 ; 

 ventral 31/3 to 31/2. 



Back olive, lower sides and under surface very light olive to 

 olive gray. Scales on preorbitals, suborbitals, and lower side of 

 head more or less tinged with silvery. Chin dusl^, also edges of 

 mandibular scales. Hind preopercle edge and groove of opercle 

 along side narrowly dusky down to gill opening. Humeral region 

 with dusky streak and continuous as dusky streak across pectoral 

 base. Spinous dorsal olive, dusky above, also front half of soft 

 dorsal, though greater hind portion of latter whitish. Anal similar 

 to soft dorsal, only dusky and olive anteriorly of greater extent. 

 With age soft dorsal and anal darker to blackish and hind margins 

 of both fins more narrowly and more contrasted whitish. Caudal 

 with upper and lower edges olive to dark olive, usually appearing 

 dusky, and hind edge whitish. With age hind caudal edge more 

 narrowly and distinctly whitish, due to submarginal blackish line. 

 Paired fins gray brown, pectoral olive basally. 



Philippines and Java. 



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