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interorbital ; mouth cleft slightly oblique, lower jaw protruding; 

 front of both jaws with well curved canines, 3 lower stronger; narrow 

 bands of small canines on vomer and palatines; opercle without 

 spines; preopercle entire. 



Scales moderate, ciliated, 50 ? in lateral series, 11 transversely; 

 lateral line interrupted. 



D. Ill, 26 or 27, produced posteriorly, half of anterior portion un- 

 developed or rudimentary, enveloped for most part in somewhat 

 thick opaque integument; A. Ill, 17, produced posteriorly; pectoral 

 rays 17. 



Uniform dark brown. 



Known from the type, 95 mm. long. (Johnston.) 



PSEUDOCHROMIS NATALENSIS Regan 



Psendochromis natalensis Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1916, p. 167. 

 Durban, Natal. — Gilchbist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, 

 pt. 4, 1917, p. 347 (reference). — Baknabd, Ann. South African Mus., voh 

 21, pt. 2, Oct. 1927, p. 493 (Natal). 



Depth 3%; head 3%. Snout 4 in head; eye 4, equals snout, 

 greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches I/2 ^^ ^ye; jaws equal; 

 interorbital 6 in head. Gill rakers 10 on lower branch of first arch. 

 Scales 48 in lateral series, 2 above, 13 below, 4 or 5 rows on cheek. 

 D. Ill, 26, third spine largest, 4 in head, soft fin rounded posteriorly, 

 when depressed reaches caudal; A. Ill, 17, second spine subequal 

 but stronger than third, % of eye ; caudal rounded ; pectoral II/2 in 

 head; ventral reaches ^ to anal. Olivaceous, back darker. Snout 

 and vertical fins blackish. Length 90 mm. (Regan, Barnard.) 



Natal coast. Said to be olive pink in life. 



Klunzingerina, new subgenus 



Type. — Pseudochronds novae-hollandiae Steindachner. 



Diagnosis. — Includes species with rounded caudal, dorsal rays 30 

 to 37 and anal rays 19 or 20. 



(For Carl Benjamin Klunzinger, best known for his work on the 

 Fishes of the Red Sea, also an excellent paper on the Miiller collec- 

 tion of Australian fishes in the Stuttgart Museum, published in 

 1880.) 



PSEUDOCHROMIS NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE Steindachner 



Psendochromis novae-holl audio e Steindachneb, Sitz. Bfr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, p. 160. Port Davis [Port Denison], New Holland.— 

 McCuLLOCH, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 3, Jan. 28. 1915, p. 48, pi. 16, 

 fig. 1 (Masthead Island). 



f Polycanthus queenslandiae Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 308, pi. 16, 

 fig. 8. Adolphus Island, Torres Strait [on color sketch]. 



Depth 3l^; head 314. Snout 4% in head; eye 3i/^, greater than 

 snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches l^ in eye, expansion 2 in 



