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lunate, equals head without snout. Pectoral nearly eye diameter 

 shorter than head. Yellowish white and somewhat deeper yellow on 

 fins. Length 140 mm. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a *. PoMADASYiNA, new subgenus. Trunk without dark spots or bands ; two 

 last dorsal spines usually subequal. 

 6\ Scales 40 to 50; 4 or 5 scales above lateral line; A. Ill, 7. 

 o\ Eye 2% to 3. 



d\ Second anal spine twice eye; spinous dorsal with large black spot; 



no opercular blotch therapon. 



d^. Second anal spine much less than twice eye ; no dorsal blotch ; opercle 



with olive or blue blotch grunniens. 



o'. Eye S^Vo to 4 ; second anal spine double or more than eye ; dorsal and 



opercle immaculate guoraca. 



b\ Scales 55 to 65; 9 scales above lateral line; A. Ill, 12; head purplish; 

 opercle with black blotch ; ventral blackish sub-terminally and other fins 



stained blackish olivaceus. 



a'. Trunk with dark spots or bands. 



e\ PoMABASYS. Body with dark spots and when small sometimes as 

 transverse series or as longitudinal rows. 

 /\ Back uniform, or with few dark spots; black spot on opercle. 



incisus. 

 f^. Back with 4 or 5 large brown or blackish blotches ; large dark 



blotch on spinous dorsal maculatns. 



f '. Back with small black spots above, sometimes one to each scale. 



f7\ Five scales above lateral line argenteus. 



^^ Six scales above lateral line manadensit. 



g^. Seven or 8 scales above lateral line. 

 /t\ A black opercular spot. 

 i\ Five or 6 interrupted dark vertical bars ; dorsals with black 



spots hasta. 



^^ With longitudinal rows of dark spots; dark spot at base of 

 each dorsal spine and ray; edges of soft vertical fins 



blackish opercularis. 



h^. No black opercular spot; head, body, and dorsals with small 

 dark spots, on body dark spot at base of each scale. 



multimacnlatxis. 

 e*. Rhonciscus. Body with dark longitudinal bands. 



j\ Three dark longitudinal bands, lowest from eye to 

 caudal. 

 k\ Scales 58 to 62, 12 above lateral line ; A. Ill, 6 or 7. 



striatus. 



1c\ Scales 70 to 80, 10 above; A. Ill, 8 stridens. 



;■*. Six to 11 longitudinal golden or dark bands; scales 50 

 to 60, 7 or 8 above ; A. Ill, 7 to 10 f urcatus. 



PoMADASYiNA, uew subgeuus 



Type. — Anthias gni/miiens Schneider. 



Diagnosis. — Body uniform, without dark spots or bands. Dorsal 

 spines usually subequal. 



