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opposite front pupil edge, 5 rows on cheek. Muzzle, including 

 preorbital and maxillary, naked. Scales with 12 to 22 basal radiat- 

 ing striae; apical denticles 77 to 118; circuli very fine. 



D. Ill, 29, I, third spine 2% in total head length, third ray 1%, 

 twenty-fifth ray 1 ; A. Ill, 15, i, third spine 3, third ray 2, twelfth 

 ray 1%; caudal 1, rounded convexly behind; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 1% ; pectoral 1% ; ventral 2% in combined head and body 

 to caudal base. 



Light brown, paler on lower head, breast and belly. On body 

 each scale with gray white spot, thus forming about a dozen longi- 

 tudinal whitish bands. Iris neutral slate. Deep brown band for- 

 ward from each side of occiput to eye, little narrower than eye and 

 then down behind maxillary across cheek, arching on subopercle. 

 Dorsals and anals, former with slightly lighter margin above and 

 with very numerous, oblique, narrow, whitish waved lines, mostly 

 broken as short white bars or spots and inclined so as to form 

 parallel and posteriorly. Caudal light yellowish, small brown me- 

 dial basal spot. Pectoral pale brownish. Ventral blackish medi- 

 ally, broadly whitish on outer border, more narrow on inner. 



Diagnosis. — Known by the dark brown or blackish transverse band 

 extending down from each side of the occiput through the eye and 

 across cheek behind maxillary. 



Type.— Cat. No. 89991, U.S.N.M. 

 2104. Doworra Island, Dutch East Indies. December 2, 1909, Length 97 mm. 



Subgenus Pseudochromis Rtippell 

 Caudal truncate or tri furcate to emarginate. 



PSEUDOCHROMIS NIGROVITTATUS Bonlengrer 



Pseudochromis nigrovittatus Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 20, 

 1897, p. 421. Mekran Coast, Persia. — Regan, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc, vol. 16, pt. 2, 1905, p. 331 (Persian Gulf). 



Depth 5 in total; head 4. Snout equals eye, which 4 in head and 

 slightly exceeds interorbital ; maxillary reaches opposite first third 

 in eye. Scales 53, 2 above, 13 below ; tubes in lateral line 33 to 35, 10. 

 Cheek with 6 rows of scales. Large scales on opercle. D. II, 28, 

 soft rays % of head ; A. II, 15 ; caudal trif urcate, outer lobes longest ; 

 caudal peduncle long as deep; pectoral % of head, large as ventral. 

 Olive brown above, yellowish white beneath. Black stripe each 

 side of tail from snout tip through eye to middle caudal rays. Fins 

 yellowish. Length 80 mm. (Boulenger.) 



