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with broad purplish or brownish blotches, fusing into general color ; caudal 

 peduncle becoming orange at base of fin, caudal fin bright cadmium ; dusky 

 blue blotch behind dorsal axil ; dorsal color of adjacent back, slightly washed 

 with orange on last four or five rays ; anal similar to dorsal ; paired fins 

 blackish ; pectoral axil orange, showing slightly above base ; no lines or 

 blotches on any of fins. 



1 example, Little Santa Cruz Island. May 28, 1908. Length, 90 mm. 



1 example, Pangasinan Island. February 13, 1908. Length, 52 mm. 



9 examples, Sacol Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 75 to 88 mm. 



14383, 14386, 14412. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. 4 examples. Length 

 76 to 90 mm. 



1 example, Tataan Bay, Tataan Island, Tawi Tawi Group. February 20, 1908. 

 [156.] Smoky -black on back, becoming gray below, scales with purplish 

 reflections posteriorly ; opercle with reddish shades ; caudal peduncle and 

 caudal cadmium-orange ; anal smoky-slate, with greenish shades ; ventral and 

 pectoral slaty ; orange spot at edge of base and in axil of pectoral ; iris with 

 golden and pink shades. 



1 example, Tataan, Simaluc Island. February 20, 1908. Length, 78 mm. 

 [171.] Olive to bister on top of head and back, becoming greenish-drab 

 below ; dorsal clove-brown ; caudal cadmium-orange ; anal like dorsal ; 

 orange spot in pectoral axil; pectoral and ventral paler than vertical fins; 

 lower iris and opercle with magenta-purple reflections. 



7 examples, Tumindao Island, southern lagoon. February 26, 1908. Length, 

 73 to 90 mm. 



1 example, Labuandata Bay, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 18, 1909. 

 Length, 75 mm. 



14339. Tobea Island. December 14, 1909. Length. 94 mm. [2147.] 



47518 A.N.S.P. Philippines. From Philadelphia Commercial Museum. Type. 



POMACENTRUS LEPIDOGENYS, new species 



Depth 2; head 3i/4, width, 1%. Snout 4; eye 2%, greater than 

 snout or interorbital ; maxillary reaches opposite front of eye, 3% in 

 head ; teeth uniserial, compressed, ends subtruncate and form rather 

 even cutting edge; interorbital SVs, broadly convex; preorbital and 

 infraorbital edge not free; hind preopercle edge with few denticles. 

 Gill rakers 6+14, slender, lanceolate, moderate. 



Tubes in lateral line 17, followed by 3 irregular pores; pores in 

 straight section 9 to caudal base and 2 more in latter; 3 scales above 

 lateral line, 9 below, 20 predorsal forward opposite nostrils; cheek 

 with 5 rows of scales, of which uppermost on infraorbitals as single 

 row to preorbital. Scales with 10 basal radiating striae; apical 

 denticles 110, with 2 or 3 transverse rows of basal elements. 



D. XIII, 13, I, fourth spine 3 in head, fifth ray 11/3 ; A. II, 13 i, 

 second spine 2^4 ; fifth ray 1% ; caudal emarginate, 1 ; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1; ventral 3% in combined head and 

 body. 



Dull brown generally, with slight olivaceous tinge, back and upper 

 surface of head darker. Grayish streak from preorbital below fol- 

 lowing infraorbitals along lower and hind eye edge. Iris deep neu- 



