FAMILY POMACENTRIDAE — WOODS AND SCHULTZ 59 



Depth of caudal peduncle in its length 1.02 to 1.16; angle of snout 

 profile with lengthwise axis of body 62 to 72 degrees. 



Body deepest between origin of dorsal and insertion of pelvics; 

 preorbital with 1 or 2 large spines, suborbitals serrate, preopercle 

 entire on 99-mm. specimen, a few teeth wide apart on one 78 mm., 

 and serrate on smallest (27 mm.) ; opercle, subopercle, and interopercle 

 with long spines, free only near tips; dorsal spines subequal, the last 

 not much shorter than second and third; soft dorsal and anal rounded; 

 caudal with rays of upper angle longest pointed, caudal slightly 

 forked, lower angle rounded. 



Color in alcohol.— Lips, chin, lower part of cheeks, and breast pale 

 whitish or yellow; interorbital light brown; body to middle of caudal 

 peduncle dark brown; 2 bluish white, black-bordered transverse 

 bands, the first from nape (where it may or may not join its fellow^ 

 ventrally across posterior margin of preopercle and anterior half of 

 opercle to posterior tip of interopercle, this band as broad as diameter 

 of eye at its broadest point, the second band only 3 scale rows in 

 width, extending from between bases of 9th and 10th dorsal spines 

 to about 2 scale rows anterior to anus, but not quite reaching anus, 

 narrowing to a point ventrally; in 27-mm. specimen this band is 

 narrow at base of 10th dorsal spine, where it commences, broadest 

 on lateral line thence narrowing ventrally (it is also somewhat curved 

 forward in the middle) ; caudal peduncle on anterior half light brown 

 color gradually becoming lighter on posterior half; spiny dorsal dusky 

 brown with narrow dark brown margin; soft dorsal dusky brown on 

 basal }i, pale on distal %; anal pale yellowish with narrow dark brown 

 margin (in 27-mm. specimen anal entirely dusky brown); caudal 

 dusky yellowish m large specimens, pale in small; pelvics yellowish 

 or whitish in two large specimens, dusky brown in 27-mm. one; 

 pectoral pale j^ellowish. 



Remarks. — This species has the first two white bars but lacks the 

 peduncular one; the anterior edges of the pelvics are black and the 

 caudal fin is pale. 



Sis lots, containing 7 specimens, were studied: USNM 61679 from 

 Suva, Fiji; 141030 and 141031 from the Marshall Islands; 3 uncata- 

 loged specimens, 1 from the Paumotus and 2 without data; also one 

 from Bikini in the University of Washington collection. 



Among these specimens, 4 adults, 82 to 99 mm. in standard length, 

 have a pale anal fin, whereas 2, 26 and 27 mm. long, have a black 

 anal and one, 25 mm. long, has a dasky anal fin. The caudal peduncle 

 varies from pale dusky to black or brownish. The key gives the 

 essential color pattern of this species. 



