FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 27 



PSEUDOCHROMIS AUREUS Scale 



Pseudochromis aurea Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, 1909, p. 528. 

 Sitanki Island, Jolo Archipelago. 



Depth 3; head 3%. Snout 33^ in head; eye 4; maxillary reaches 

 opposite pupil, length 21/2 in head; mouth moderate, lower jaw pro- 

 jecting; teeth in front of jaws in several series with 4 large curved 

 canines; teeth on sides of jaws in single series; teeth on vomer and 

 palatines; interorbital 5; lower preopercle limb with 3 membranous 

 points. Gill rakers 13 on lower limb, rather flat and wide. 



Scales 41, transversely 14; smooth on entire body, their borders 

 finely denticulated; 4 rows on cheek. 



D. Ill, 26, spines rather weak, y^ of head, longest ray 11/3 ; A. Ill, 

 14, base equals head, third spine 21/^, longest ray 11/2; caudal 1, 

 rounded; least depth of caudal peduncle 1%: pectoral IVs; ventral 

 reaches anal. 



Bright orange, most scales below lateral line except on thorax 

 with bright blue dot. Two blue lines cross eyeball but not out on 

 orbit. Head uniform orange, very slightly darker above. Fins 

 uniform orange. (Seale.) 



Known from the type 90 mm. long and numerous paratypes. 



PSEUDOCHROMIS PERSPICILLATUS Gunther 



Pseudochromis perspicillatus Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1862, p. 193 



(not pi. 27, fig. C). China.— Webee, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 



263 (Tual, Niedrig Key; Elat, High Key). 

 AmUyopus sagitta (not Gunther) GtJNTHER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1862, 



pi. 27, fig. A. 

 Pseudochromis ransonneti Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 60, 



pt. 1, 1870, p. 562. Singapore. 

 Pseudochromis {Pseudochromis) ransonneti Blebkeir, Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet. 



Amsterdam, No. 5, vol. 15, 1875, p. 19 (copied). 

 Pseudochromis rex Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, 1909, p. 529. 



Sitanki Island, Jolo Archipelago. 



Depth 3; head 3%. Snout 4 in head from snout tip; eye 4, long 

 as snout, greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches % in eye, ex- 

 pansion 11/2 in eye, length 2% in head from snout tip; lower jaw 

 with 2 and upper with 3 pairs of canine teeth ; interorbital low. 



Scales 42 in median lateral series to caudal base and 2 more on 

 latter ; about 32 tubes in upper section of lateral line, and 7 in lower 

 section to caudal base and 1 more on latter; 6 scales above lateral 

 line, 17 below, about 25 ? predorsal forward opposite front eye 

 edge, 6 rows on cheek of which I row on preopercle flange. Fins all 

 more or less scaleless. 



D. Ill, 25, third spine 3 in total head length, twenty-third ray 2 ; 

 A. Ill, 14, I, third spine 41^, longest, thirteenth 2; caudal IVs, 



