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BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



colored like body, upper and lower caudal edges greenish yellow. 

 Length 75 mm. (Riippell.) 

 Red Sea. 



PSEUDOCHROMIS POLYNEMUS, new species = 



Depth 21/2 1 head 3%, width 2. Snout 41^ in head from snout tip; 

 eye 3%, greater than snout or interorbital ; maxillary reaches % in 

 eye, very oblique, expansion 1% in eye, length 2% in head from snout 

 tip; teeth in narrow bands in jaws, little wider anteriorly, short, 

 convex, with pair of small wide-set canines above and (abnormally) 

 below 2 left anterior canines, close together; narrow band of fine 

 teeth on vomer and small patch on each palatine, tongue toothless ; in- 

 terorbital 41/^, convex; 5 short, flat denticles along upper opercle 



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-PSEUDOCHROMIS POLTNEMUS, NEW SPECIES. TYPE 



edge; preorbital narrow. Gill rakers 5 + 11, clavate, % of gill fila- 

 ments, which y2 of eye. 



Scales 38 in median lateral series to caudal base and 8 more on 

 latter ; upper section of lateral line with 28 tubular scales, lower sec- 

 tion with 10 of which one on caudal base (tubes irregular in 

 sequence) ; 4 scales above lateral line, 12 below, 17 predorsal forward 

 above nostrils, 4 rows on cheek and only narrow preopercle border 

 naked. Suprascapula entire. Scales with 23 basal radiating striae ; 

 apical denticles 88, conic, rather slender; circuli very fine. 



D. Ill, 27, I, third spine 3i/8 in total head length, twenty-second 

 ray 24^ in combined head and body to caudal base ; A. Ill, 15, i, third 

 spine 31/5 in total head length, tenth ray 3 in combined head and body 

 to caudal base; caudal 2%, deeply lunate, with exserted filamentous 

 tips ; ventral 21/3 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% in total head 

 length; pectoral IV5. 



'■ HoXuj many; vvna thread; with reference to filaments on soft vertical and ventral fins. 



