FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 303 



Pseudanthias pleurotaenia Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 



1873-76, p. 17, pi. (9) 287, fig. 1 (Amboina). 

 Anihias (Pseudanthias) taeniatus Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 



9, pi. 3, fig. 2. Red Sea. 



Depth 2Y 2 to 2%; head 3^ to 334, width 1% to 2. Snout 4^ to 

 4:% in head from snout tip; eye 2>% to 4, much greater than snout; 

 13^8 to lJ/5 in interorbital; maxillary % to % in eye, expansion 13^ 

 to Vyz in eye, length 2% to 2 x /i in head from snout tip; teeth in 

 narrow villiform bands in jaws, outer row little enlarged; pair of 

 wide set upper front canines, also lower pair, smaller and flaring 

 outward, besides antero-lateral recurved larger canine on each man- 

 dibular ramus; small band of villiform teeth on each palatine and 

 patch on vomer; interorbital 33^ to 334, well convex; hind preopercle 

 edge denticulate; opercular spines 3, lower closer to median and most 

 forward. Gill rakers 11+26, finely lanceolate, little longer than gill 

 filaments or 1 }/$ in eye. 



Scales 41 to 45 in lateral line to caudal base and 1 more tubular 

 on latter; 6 scales above, 17 or 18 below, 28 to 30 predorsal forward 

 not quite to snout tip; 9 or 10 rows across cheek to preopercle angle, 

 with last 3 rows on preopercle flange; body scales with few or no 

 auxiliary small basal scales; 5 or 6 transverse rows of scales on maxil- 

 lary expansion. Scales with 9 to 14 basal radiating striae; 66 to 105 

 apical denticles; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 17, 1, third spine \Yi to 2% in total head length, fourteenth 

 ray 1% to 2%; A. Ill, 7, 1, third spine 2 to 234 third ray l#o in 

 young to 3 in combined head and body to caudal base in adult; cau- 

 dal 23^5 to 2%, deeply concave, with produced filamentous points; 

 ventral 2 to 3; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 2]/% in total head 

 length; pectoral 1. 



Light brown generally, little paler below. Fins all uniformly pale. 

 Two parallel gray white lines from lower eye edge obliquely back to 

 form loop before and over pectoral base; in smaller example upper 

 line broken as spots or dots anteriorly or on postorbital. On trunk 

 and tail below gray white lines also continue parallel at same 

 width from the pectoral axil and fade out on tail posteriorly. Iris 

 pale. Upper dorsal edge narrowly, also lower anal edge and front 

 ventral edge narrowly gray white. 



Originally this species was known to Bleeker from only a single 

 example 134 mm. long. Our specimens, though showing much fewer 

 than 52 scales in the lateral line as Bleeker gives, also show a second 

 parallel light line from the eye to the pectoral origin which is not 

 indicated on his figure. Our larger specimen also has a prolonged 

 ventral filament, which Bleeker does not show, besides he does not 

 indicate the numerous fine scales forming a sheath along spinous dor- 

 sal base and those extending out over the soft dorsal and a great part 

 of the paired fins. Our specimens have serrated suprascapulas. 



