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snout tip; teeth fine, in single row in jaws, with anterior little en- 

 larged; interorbital 5^4 to 514, narrow, nearly level. Gill rakers 



3 + 9, short weak points; less than gill filaments, which I/2 of eye. 



Scales 23 or 24 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 or 5 

 more on latter; upper section of lateral line with 20 or 21 tubular 

 scales, lower section with 5 or 6 to caudal base ; 1 scale above lateral 

 line, 10 below, 10 predorsal extending forward nearly opposite front 

 eye edge, 3 rows on cheek to preopercle edge. Muzzle naked. Scales 

 with 8 or 9 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 40 or 42, slender; 

 circuli fine. 



D. II, 21, I, first ray 2 in total head length; A. II, 12, i, first ray 

 21/^; caudal 1%, rounded behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 1% to 2 ; pectoral 1% to 1% ; ventral II/3 to 1%. 



Brown, nearly uniform, only slightly paler on head below and 

 abdomen. Iris slaty. Dorsals and anals dusky terminally, other- 

 wise fins all pale brownish. 



East Indies, Philippines, Queensland, Melanesia. 



Twelve examples. Batan Island, Luzon. June 5, 1909. Length 13 to 20 mm. 

 Two examples. Batan Island. July 22, 1909. Length 23 to 27 mm. 

 51977 U.S.N.M. Negros. Dr. B. Dean. Length 43 mm. 



48728, 48729, 48763 to 48767 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Mus. Phila. 

 Length 35 to 64 mm. 



FSEUDOCHROMIS PUNCTATUS (Richardson) 



Assiculus putictatus Richardson^ Discov. in Australia, Stokes, vol. 1, 1846, 



p. 492, pi. 2, fig. 1. Coast of Australia. 

 Fseudochromis punctatus McCuixoch, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 3, June 28, 



1915, p. 47 (Useless Inlet, Shark Baj% West Australia). 

 Pseudochromis miilleri Klunzingeb, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, pt. 1, 



1879, p. 370. Port Darwin. — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soe. New South Wales, 



vol. 9, 1884, p. 28 (copied). — Waite, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 6, pt. 2, 



1905, p. 62 (North Western coast). 

 Cichlops filamentosus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, 



1881, p. 570. Port Darwin. 



Depth 2% ; head 2%, width 2. Snout 4 in head from upper jaw 

 tip; eye 3, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches % 

 in eye, expansion 2 in eye, length 2 in head from snout tip ; band of 

 fine teeth in upper jaw, uniserial laterally and with 4 canines in 

 fi'ont; narrow band of fine teeth in lower jaw, with 6 front canines 

 and 1 on each side; vomer with minute teeth in band of 3 or 4 

 irregular rows, band on palatines more minute and with 4 or 5 

 irregular rows; interorbital 6, low. 



Scales 35 in median lateral series to caudal base and 2 more on 

 latter ; upper section of lateral line with 36 tubular scales, lower sec- 

 tion with 9 to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 3 scales above lateral 

 line, 12 below, about 9 ? predorsal forward opposite middle of eyes, 



4 rows on cheek and preopercle flange naked. 



