34 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



eye; length 2% in head; band of villiform teeth in front of each jaw, 

 becoming uniserial laterally in jaws, 1 or 2 strong canines each side 

 of symphysis; large patch of villiform teeth on vomer, smaller one 

 on palatines. 



Scales 56 (49 according to description) in median lateral series 

 to caudal base and about 14 more on latter ; upper section of lateral 

 line with 40 to 43 tubular scales, lower section with 11 to 12 to 

 caudal base and 1 or 2 more on latter ; 5 scales above lateral line, 14 

 below, 10 predorsal forward to interorbital, 6 rows on cheek. 



D. Ill, 35 to 37 (34, i on figure), third spine 3% in head, thirty- 

 second ray 1% ; A. Ill, 20, third spine 3, eighteenth ray li/o ; caudal 

 3l^ in combined head and body to caudal base, ends in median point 

 behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% in head; pectoral I-^tj', 

 ventral 1%. 



Head and body dark brown, sides between pectoral fin tinged 

 deep red. All fins except ventral very dark, almost black. Black 

 blotch between dorsal spines and some narrow oblique dark lines on 

 front ra.js. Length 87 mm. (McCulloch.) 



According to McCulloch another, in life, with head and front part 

 of body deep pink, rest of body sage green. Dark blue line round 

 lower and hinder eye edges and 2 similar marks on cheeks. Dorsal 

 bright green, margined with yellow and blue line ; dark spot between 

 spines and longitudinal series of spots near fin base. Anal like 

 dorsal. Caudal sage green, with oblique scarlet and blue marginal 

 band on each lobe. 



PSEUDOCHROMIS SPENCEI Fowler 



Pseudocliromis spencei Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, No. 1, vol. 3-3, 

 1929, p. 112, pi. 1. Bombay. 



Depth 3%; head 31/5, width 21/4- Snout 4% in head from snout 

 tip, little broader than long; eye 3% in head, greater than snout or 

 interorbital; maxillary reaches slightly beyond front eye edge, 

 expansion 2% in eye, length 3 in head ; teeth conic, simple, uniserial 

 in jaws, 4 canines in each anteriorly and small medio-lateral man- 

 dibular; no teeth on palate or tongue, latter pointed and free in 

 front; interorbital 6l^ in head, slightly convex; preopercle edge 

 entire ; opercle ends in broad, short, free spine. Gill rakers 5 + 10, 

 lanceolate, ^ of gill filaments which 1% in eye. 



Scales 36 in upper section of lateral line, 8 in lower section to 

 caudal base and 2 more on latter; 3 scales above lateral line, 14 

 below, 17 predorsal forward till midway in interorbital, 5 rows on 

 cheek to preopercle ridge; muzzle naked; of fins only caudal scaled 

 basally. Scales with 11 basal radiating striae: apical denticles 57, 

 with 1 or 2 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



