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caudal peduncle smaller than elsewhere on body, more crowded; 

 bases of dorsals and anals with few rather large scales ; caudal, except 

 hind edge, finely scaled. Scales with 8 to 10 short basal radiating 

 striae, edge scalloped; apical denticles 76 to 87, with 3 or 4 trans- 

 verse series of basal elements ; circuli very fine. 



D. XII, 13 or 14, fourth spine 2^4 to 2^2 in head, first branched 

 ray 2 to ^Vq ; A. II, 14 or 15, second spine 3 to 3l^, first ray 2l^ to 

 2% ; pectoral 1 to lx\y ; ventral 1 ^V, to 1 Vs I least depth of caudal 

 peduncle, 2^ to 214 ; caudal widely forked, 3 to 3^^ in combined head 

 and body, tips ending in filaments. 



Back and upper surface uniform olive, under surface of head and 

 abdomen soiled whitish. Most scales about humeral region with 

 dark or neutral tint, sometimes as spot basally. Below eye towards 

 pectoral base and parallel with lower front profile of body at least 

 3 poorly defined gray white streaks extending to thorax. Dorsals 

 and anals dusky neutral. Caudal olive. Paired fins dull or light 

 olive, usually dark spot in pectoral axil. Iris slaty. 



Known only from the East Indies and Philippines. 



A peculiar fish of sombre appearance, remarkable for its eye 

 being deeper than wide and furnished along the hind edge of 

 the eye socket with a fringe of papillae. 



3 examples, Doworra Island. December 2, 1909. Length, 58 to 70 mm. 



26 examples, Panpan, Tara Island. September 20, 1909. Length, 75 to 100 mm. 

 Greenish above, becoming some\^ hat slaty on nape ; margins of scales 

 rather dusky ; silvery with dusky and bluish on lower head and side ; two or 

 three pale stripes from eye and cheek to base of pectoral, showing only in 

 certain lights. Dorsal slaty, with obscure oblique paler lines crossing about 

 five membranes ; last three rays pale orange. Caudal with purplish wash. 

 Anal similar to dorsal. Ventrals pink. Pectorals hyaline pink. Chin with 

 slight pinkish wash. 



2 examples, Port Galera, Mindoro. October 27, 1909. Length, 84 to 88 mm. 



5 examples, Uki, Bouro Island. December 9, 1909. Length, 73 to 77 mm. 



1 example, Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 25, 1909. Length, 

 75 mm. 



Pomacentrus ohtusirostris Giinther ° may be synonymous. It is de- 

 scribed : " The scales in the upper side of the head do not advance to 

 the front margin of the orbit " and the " scales are marked with darker 

 blue elongated spots arranged so as to form longitudinal lines." 

 Giinther's figure does not show the ocular papillae and the dorsals 

 and anals are without the basal scales of our specimens. Though 

 Bleeker's figure of Lepidozygiis tapeinosoma is much better, the 

 ocular papillae are also unnoticed. Regan reports Pomacentrvs 

 ohfusirostns from the Persian Gulf." 



•Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus.. vol. 4, 1862, p. 24. No locality. — Gttnther, Fishes of Zanzibar, 

 18G6, p. 82, pi. 10. fig. 4 (Zanzibar). 



•Journ. Bombay Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 16, pt. 2, 1916. p. 336. 



