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orbital 4% ; peropercle and opercle edges entire. Gill I'akers 12 

 on lower limb, sharp pointed, short. 



Scales 36, lateral line interrupted, 11 in vertical series, 10 pre- 

 dorsal, 3 rows on cheek. Body and head, except chin and snout, 

 covered with rather small, smooth scales, caudal scaled half its 

 length, other fins unsealed. 



D. II, 20, spines short, second spine half first ray, longest ray 

 2i^j, in head; A. Ill, 10, rays 2; caudal V/^, rounded; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 1% ; pectoral ll^ ; ventral 1%. 



In life yellowish brown, darkest anteriorly, posterior half of body 

 with some small vertical blue marks. Top of snout, interorbital 

 space and nuchal region back along base of spinous dorsal black. 

 Lower half of spinous dorsal jet black, upper half orange, narrow 

 yellow line between colors. Caudal yellow, jet black line from 

 along top of caudal peduncle into fin where forming submarginal 

 wedge-shaped band. Pectoral yellowish brown. Anal and ventrals 

 pink. In alcohol less bright, the bluish markings obsolete. (Scale.) 



Only known from the type, 46 mm. long, obtained at Zamboanga, 

 June 11, 1908. 



PSEUDOCHROMIS MELANOTAENIA Bleeker 



Pseudochromis tnelanotaema Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, 



1863, p. 273. Atapupu, Timor. — Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk., Amsterdam, pt. 



19, 1913, No. 9, p. 119 (Ambon). 

 Pseudochromis (Leptochromis) melanotaenia Bleeker, Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet. 



Amsterdam, No. 5, vol. 15, 1875, p. 20 (Timor and Amboina) ; Atlas Ichth. 



Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, 1877, pi. (1)390, fig. 7. 



Depth 3l^; head 2i4- Snout 5% in head from snout tip; eye 3i/^, 

 greater than snout; maxillary reaches opposite front pupil edge, 

 expansion I/2 of eye, length 3 in head from snout tip ; teeth in several 

 series in jaws, outer row little enlarged, anteriorly 3 upper and 2 

 lower canines; several series of small teeth in y-shaped band on 

 vomer, and each palatine with narrow band; interorbital level. 



Scales 26 in median lateral series to caudal base and 2 more on 

 latter (description says 40 between upper angle of gill opening and 

 caudal base) ; upper section of lateral line with 22 tubular scales, 

 lower section with 7 to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 3 scales 

 above lateral line, 10 below, 10 predorsal at least forward midway 

 in interorbital, 5 rows on cheek of which 1 row on preopercle flange. 



D. Ill, 21 to 23, second spine 4 in total head length, nineteenth 

 ray 2%; A. II, 13 or 14 (figure shows II, 12), second spine 4, seventh 

 ray 21^; caudal 11/^, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2V5; pectoral 1%; ventral li/^. 



Body brown. Iris golden. Dorsals yellow, broadly blackish basal 

 band. On caudal above slightly inclined blackish band from front 

 short rays to hind edges of supero-median ones; similar one from 



