FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 19 



nally. Another similar diffuse band from behind pectoral axil along 

 lower side of tail and lower edge of caudal peduncle across caudal, 

 where darker, sharply defined and narrowed out over lower median 

 caudal rays terminally. Iris whitish. Dorsals and anals brown, 

 with 6 or 7 indistinct paler longitudinal lines. Paired fins pale. 



Diagnosis. — Known by its two dark longitudinal bands, darkened 

 and approximated toward hind caudal edge. 



Type.—C^it. No. 89990, U.S.N.M. 



One example. Philippines. Length 58 mm. 



22073 [604]. Santa Cruz, Marinduque. April 24, 1908. Length 67 mm. 



16552. Galera Bay. June 9, 1908. (Type.) 



Ogilbyina, new subgenus 



Type. — Damipieria longipi7inh Ogilby. 



Diagnosis. — Distinguished from Dampiei^ by the larger scales, 

 less than 60 in a lateral series, but the caudal elongated, much greater 

 than the head or about % of body length to caudal base. Coloration 

 uniform. 



(For the late James Douglas Ogilby, the distinguished zoologist 

 of the Queensland Museum). 



DAMPIERIA LONGIPINNIS Ogilby 



Dampieria lonffipinnis Ogilby, Annals Queensland Mus., No. 9, pt. 2. 1908. d. 34. 

 Bowen, Queensland. 



Depth 31/4; head 3%. Ventral profile much more arched than 

 dorsal, w^hich nearly straight behind nape. Snout % of eye, 

 rounded; eye 3l^ in head; maxillary reaches opposite front of eye; 

 interorbital 514, convex. Scales 55 in lateral series; lateral line with 

 44 tubes in upper section and 7 in lower; 1 scale above lateral line, 

 16 below. D. II, 35, second spine longer, rather more than 14 of 

 eye and ^ longest ray; A. Ill, 19, begins below seventeenth dorsal 

 ray ; caudal pointed, 2i^ in body length ; least depth caudal peduncle 

 1/^ body depth; pectoral 3% in body length; ventral 41/5, second and 

 third rays equal and longest, fin reaching vent. Uniform pale red- 

 dish brown, fins somewhat darker. (Ogilby.) 



Only known from the type, 96 mm. long, obtained on the Queens- 

 land coast and in the Queensland Museum. 



Genus PSEUDOCHROMIS Ruppell 



Pseudochromls Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 8. Type Pseudochro- 



mis olivaceus RuppEax, designated by Bleekek, Verb. Kon. Akad. Wet. 



Amsterdam, vol. 15, No. 5, 1875, p. 2. 

 Labristoma Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, Fishes, vol. 2, 1889, p. 230. Type 



Pseudochromis olivaceus Ruppell, designated by Swain, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, 1882, p. 275. 

 Assicxiliis RicHAKDSON, Discov. in Australia, Stokes, vol. 1, 1846, p. 492. Type 



Assiculus pun^tatus Richabdson, monotypic. 



