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/. Head with dusky line along hind preopercle edge and 

 gill-opening; no black basal pectoral blotch. 



opercularls. 

 i^ Caudal not paler or contrasted with body. 



k^. Body with several longitudinal blue lines, lineatus. 

 fc^ Body without longitudinal or horizontal lines. 



l^. Body scales not edged with narrow oblique or 

 vertical blue lines. 

 m\ Coloration dark ; uo black tranverse band. 

 n\ A yellow longitudinal medial band, followed 



by yellow spot at caudal base desmostigma. 



n'. Pale or yellowish blotch at bases of last 



dorsal rays elerae. 



m". Coloration generally light. 



o'. Black transverse band at front of tail. 



retrofasciatus. 



0'. No black transverse band cinerascens. 



o^ Two longitudinal black bands bitaeniatus. 



1". Bach scale of body with narrow blue line mar- 

 ginally azurelineatus. 



c'. Lepidochkomis, new subgenus. Each scale of body with 1 to 3 small 



basal auxiliary scales lepidolepis. 



6^ DoRYCHROMis, new subgenus. Anal spine long, second but little less than 



head; unform. with dark spot at pectoral axil analis. 



a^ HoPLOCHROMis. External outwardly directed conic teeth in mandible ; 

 pale blue caeruleus. 



Subgenus Chromis Cuvier 



In this group we include those species in which the jaw teeth do 

 not flare outward, second anal spine moderate or short, and no small 

 auxiliary basal scales to body scales. 



CHROMIS TERNATENSIS (Bleeker) 



Heliases ternatensisi Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 10, 1856, p. 377. 



Ternate. 

 Heliastes ternatensis Guntiier, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 63 



(East Indies). 

 Chromis ternatensis Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. Neerl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 403 (4), 



fig. 4; Nat. Verb. Moll. Maatsch. Plarlem, (No. 6), ser. 3. vol. 2, 1877, 



p. 161 (Flores, Timor, Ternate, Buru, Obi major, Amboina, Goram, Aru, 



New Guinea). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 359 (Beo in 



Karakelang Island). 

 Chromis phiUppinus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1918, p. 63, fig. 25. 



Philippines. 



Depth 1% to 2; head 3 to 3%, width 1% to 2. Snout 31/2 to 4 in 

 head; eye 2% to 2%? greater than snout; maxillary 2% to 3%, 

 reaches to or little beyond front eye edge ; teeth irregularly triserial 

 in jaws, outer row in each little enlarged, simple, conic; interorbital 

 2% to 2%? convex; infraorbital not free; hind preopercle edge entire. 

 Gill rakers 9+20, lanceolate, long. 



