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Scales ctenoid on body and head, except the shout, maxillaries, and 

 lower jaw are naked; teeth in lower jaw in a villiform patch near 

 symphysis, with a row of small canines at sides; upper jaw with a few 

 canines at front, behind them some villiform teeth that extend along 

 sides as a narrow band becoming single posteriorly ; vomer and pala- 

 tines with small patches of villiform teeth ; first dorsal spine minute, 

 the second about half as long as the third, the third dorsal spine a 

 little longer than snout; first anal spine short, the second about two- 

 thirds of the third, the latter about equal to length of snout; most 

 of the soft dorsal and anal rays appear branched at least near their 

 tips; opercle and preopercle without spines; upper lateral line ends 



Figure 10. — Pseudochromis jamesi, new species: Holotype (U.S.N.M. No. 115704), 

 30 mm. in standard length. 



below the sixth or seventh soft ray from rear of dorsal fin; color 

 plain brownish, with an obscure pale streak near midaxis of body 

 extending from behind head and ending over beginning of the second 

 third of anal fin ; the most conspicuous color mark is an intense black 

 spot, above lateral line on caudal peduncle just in front of base of 

 caudal fin, bordered by a white (probably orange) spot on dorsal 

 posterior edge of caudal peduncle, and on bases of first few rudimentary 

 caudal rays ; fins all plain gray. 



Remarks. — This species may be distinguished from all other species 

 in this genus by the intensely black spot with white dorsally on the 

 posterior upper half of caudal peduncle. 



Named jaTnesi after my 12-year-old son, James, who is interested in 

 natural history. 



Genus PSEUDOPLESIOPS Bleeker 



Pseudoplesiops Bleekeb, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. 15, p. 215, 1858. (Type, 

 Pseudoplesiops typus Bleeker.) 



PSEUDOPLESIOPS ROSAE, new species 

 Fir.TRE n 



Eolotype.—K specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 116178) 18.7 mm. standard 

 length, taken June 11-14, 1939, on the reef of Rose Island by Leonard 



