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D. Ill, 29, third spine ^% in total head length, third ray 21/3; 

 A. Ill, 18, second spine 6, eighth ray 2%; caudal 11/5, convexly 

 rounded behind ; least depth of caudal peduncle 214 ; pectoral 1% ; 

 ventral 1%. 



Back brownish, below paler. In postocular, at upper juncture of 

 preopercle short dusky bar size of pupil. Iris gray. Under surface 

 of head and body pale to whitish. Dorsals, caudal, and anal pale 

 gray. Dorsal and anal with numerous, obscure, dark longitudinal 

 lines. 



Known only from the type in the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia ; obtained at Bombay ; 53 mm. long. 



PSEUDOCHROMIS PERSICUS Murray 



Pseudochromis persicus Muekay, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, No. 1, vol. 2, 

 1887, p. 49. Persian Gulf; Indian Annals Mag. Nat. Sci., vol. 1, 1887, p. 

 24.— Regan. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, pt. 2, 190.5, p. 330 

 (Persian Gulf). 



Depth 414 (in total), equals space between snout tip and hind 

 preopercle edge. Snout equals eye. Scales in upper section of 

 lateral line 55, in lower section 10; scales transversely 15; opercles 

 scaly; caudal scaly i/o its length. D. Ill, 30; A. Ill, 19; dorsal 

 and anal produced posteriorly and pointed; posterior dorsal rays 

 and all rays of anal, caudal and paired fins branched; pectoral rays 

 18; ventral I, 5. Pale fleshy on body. Head and snout brown, 

 two longitudinal pale bluish white lines on preopercle. Black spot 

 behind opercle with vertical bluish white line through its anterior 

 third. Body covered with scattered blue spots. Dorsal, anal and 

 caudal with faint blue spots, not unlike broken up undulating lines. 

 Young with dark brown line running from snout through eye to 

 end of dorsal fin, which disappears with age. (Murray.) 



Known only from the Persian Gulf. Size not given. 



PSEUDOCHROMIS SPLENDENS, new species 



Depth 2%; head 3i/^, width 2. Snout 4% in head from snout 

 tip; eye 4, little greater than snout or interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches % in eye, nearly vertical, expansion 2 in eye, length 2% 

 in head from snout tip; teeth uniserial, small, conic in jaws, pair 

 of wide set canines in front of each ; small band of fine teeth on 

 each palatine and across vomer, tongue smooth; interorbital 4%, 

 convex. Gill rakers 4 + 13, lanceolate, % gill filaments, which 1% 

 in eye. 



Scales 34 in median lateral series to caudal base and 10 more on 

 latter; tubular scales 23 (25 on right side of body) in upper section 

 of lateral line, 12 in lower section to caudal base and 2 more on 

 latter; 4 scales above lateral line, 11 below, 14 predorsal forward 



