FISHES OF THE PHILIPPHSTE AND ADJACENT SEAS 75 



1 example Usada. March 5, 1908. Length, 62 mm. [D. 5174.] [401.] Black 



spot on shoulder and in axil of pectoral ; light blotch posteriorly in axil of 



dorsal. 

 56160 U.S.N.M. Philippines. Philippine Commission. Length, 68 mm. 

 47636 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. Length, 



63 mm. 

 27673 A.N.S.P. Padr.ng, Sumatra. Messrs. Harrison and Hiller. Length, 112 



mm. Type of Pomacentrus leucosphyrus. 



POMACENTRUS SMITHI, new species 



Depth 21/8 to 21/4; head Si/g to 3i/g, width 1% to 2. Snout 

 3% to S% ; eye 2% to 31/2, gi'eater than snout, 1 to li/g in inter- 

 orbital; maxillary to eye, or slightly beyond front eye edge in 

 young, 2% to 3 in head; teeth uniserial, compressed, form rather 

 even cutting-edge with ends blunt or truncate; interorbital 2% 

 to 3 in head, broadly convex; preorbital and infraorbitals narrow, 

 not free, edges entire; hind preopercle edge with row of small den- 

 ticles. Gill rakers 7+13, lanceolate, rather long and slender. 



Tubes in lateral line 13 to 15, followed by 4 to 6 irregular pores; 

 pores in straight section 7 to 9 to caudal base and to 2 on latter; 

 3 scales above lateral line, 9 below, 23 or 24 predorsal slightly for- 

 ward to nostril though not quite to snout edge; preorbital and 

 infraorbitals scaleless; cheek with 3 rows of scales, of which lowest 

 row smallest and on preopercle flange. Scales with 6 or 7 basal 

 radiating striae ; apical denticles 74 to 84, with 1 or 2 series of basal 

 elements transversely; circuli fine. 



D. XIII, 12, I or 13, I, thirteenth spine 1% to 2 in head, fourth 

 ray 1% to 1%; A. II, 13, i, second spine 1% to 2, fourth spine 

 1% to 1% ; caudal emarginate, lobes rather pointed, 1 ^V to 1% ; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2^5 in head; pectoral 1; ventral 1. 



Deep brown generally, scales with vertical dusky streaks or bar 

 basally. Head little paler below than above, also breast and belly, all 

 sprinliled with obscure dusk}'' dots producing soiled appearance. Sev- 

 eral oblique whitish streaks with blackish-brown alternating irregular 

 streaks, on opercles and humeral region. Also similar horizontal 

 blackish-brown alternating streaks on caudal peduncle out on caudal 

 base. Dorsals largely dusky-black, spinous fin with longitudinal 

 grayish median band and soft fin with pale or grayish streak on 

 each membrane. Anal dusky-black, with 3 longitudinal grayish or 

 whitish bands, uppermost at bases of last rays. Caudal brownish 

 terminally. Paired fins pale brown, pectoral with dusky obscure 

 blotch at origin and ends of ventrals dusky. 



Philippines and East Indies. A very distinct species, with dark 

 and light blotches on the opercle and humeral region and the dark 

 bands longitudinally at the caudal base. 



Tyjye.—CRt. No. 899r.8, U.S.X.M. 



