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Table 12. — Counts made on pseudochromids with VII dorsal spines — Continued 



Genus PSEUDOCHROMIS Ruppell 



Pseudochromis Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehorig, 

 No. 4, p. 8, 1835. (Type, P. oUvaceus Ruppell.) 



PSEUDOCHROMIS JAMESI. new species 



Figure 10 



Holofype. — A specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 115704) 30 nim. in standard 

 length, taken June 11-14, 1939, by Leonard P. Scliultz, on the reef of 

 Kose Island, along with two paratypes (U.S.N.M. No. 115705), 31.7 

 and 31.5 mm., and one (U.S.N.M. No. 115743) from Rose Island 

 lagoon, June 12-20, 1939, 37 mm. 



Description. — (Based on the holotype and three paratypes as listed 

 above. Detailed counts and measurements of the holotype are given 

 first, followed by those for the three paratypes in parentheses, re- 

 spectively, standard length 30 (31.7; 31.5; 37) mm.; measurements 

 are expressed in hundredths of the standard length, respectively.) 

 Length of head 33.3 (31.9; 33.3; 32.3); the greatest depth of body 

 25.7 (30.6; 27.6; 25.6) ; length of snout 6.7 (6.6; 7.3; 6.5) ; postorbital 

 length of head 16.7 (16.4; 17.1; 16.0) ; diameter of eye 10.3 (11.0; 11.7; 

 10.3) ; distance from tip of snout to posterior edge of maxillary 11.0 

 (10.7; 10.8; 10.5) ; distance from tip of snout to origin of doreal 

 fin 34.7 (37.6; 38.0; 35.8) ; snout to origin of anal fin 63.2 (64.6; 64.0; 

 65) ; distance from posterior edge of anal fin to midbase of caudal 

 fin 17.3 (17.4; 17.4; 17.8) ; least depth of caudal peduncle 15.0 (17.0; 

 14.9; 14.6) ; length of pectoral fin (base to tip of longest ray) 21.0 

 (21.2; 20.0; 20.2) ; interorbital space 3.3 (4.7; 4.3; 4.1). 



Dorsal rays III, 24 (III, 24; III, 24; III, 24) ; anal rays III. 13 

 (III, 14; III, 13; III, 14) ; pectoral rays L. 19, R. 19 (18-19; ?-19; 

 18) ; scale rows from upper edge of gill opening to midbase of caudal 

 fin 40 (39; 40; 39) ; number of pores in dorsal lateral line 32 (29; 32; 

 29) ; number of pores in lateral line along midaxis of caudal peduncle 

 7 (6; 6; 7) ; about 3 or 4+10 and 4 or 5+10 gill rakers on two of the 

 jDaratypes ; number of scales in a transverse row from origin of anal to 

 base of dorsal fin I31/2 (I31/2 ; I31/2 ; I31/2) . 



