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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



197. Poniacentrus popei Evermann & Seale, i •• •« species. 



Head 3 in length; depth 1.9; eve 2.N in bead; snout 3.5; interorbital 2.75; dorsal xin. 12; anal ir, 13; 

 scales 3-24-9. 



Bodv elevated, compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head; anterior profile evenly rounded; jaws 

 equal: a single series of blunt, rather strong teeth in each jaw, none on vomer or palatines; gillrakers sharp. 

 13 on lower limb, the longest equal to one-half eye; maxillary not reaching anterior margin of eye, its length 

 equal to eye; mandible 2.7") in head; greatest preorbital width 2 in eye. its margin denticulate with a rather 

 strong spine below anterior third of eye; preopercle strongly denticulate; opercle with a single spine on its 

 posterior margin; body and head fully covered with firm pectinate scales; no scales on preorbital. about 3 

 rows of scales on cheek; scales on top of head small, about 20 series in front of dorsal; origin of dorsal on line 

 with axil of pectoral, the distance between tip of snout and origin of dorsal 2.2 in length: longest spine 2.25 

 in head; middle ray of soft dorsal longest, 1.35 in head; origin of anal fin midway between base of caudal 

 and origin of ventral, the middle rays of fin longest, 1.35 in head; second anal spine longest, 1.75 in head; 

 origin of ventral below axil of pectoral, its tip reaching vent; pectoral equal to head; caudal emarginate, 1.1 

 in head. 



Fig. lO.—Pomacentrus i>oj>fi Evermann .v Seal'', new species. Type. 



Color in spirits, straw-yellow, no spots or dots on body or in axil of any (in . anal lin rather broadly mar- 

 gined with black; a narrow brownish margin to dorsal, indistinct on soft dorsal; otherwise fins all yellow, 

 unmarked. 



One fine specimen (no. 3470; length 2. to in i Type. no. 55903. U. S. National Museum, collected by 

 Charles J. Pierson at Bacon, Sorsogon, P. I. 



Named for our friend and associate, Mr. Thomas Edmund Burt Pope, scientific assistant, U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries. 



198. Poniacentrus alexanderse Evermann *.v; Scale, new species. 



Head 3.45 in length; depth 2; eye 3 in head: interorbital 3.2: snout 4.5; dorsal xin. 11: anal n. 14; 

 scales 4-27-9. 



Body compressed, elevated; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head; anterior profile evenly rounded; mouth 

 small: teeth in a single row in each jaw; maxillary ending on a line with anterior margin of orbit, its length 

 slightly less than eve; mandible 3.1 in head; preorbital with some minute denticulations and one rather 

 strong spine below anterior margin of pupil; greatest width of preorbital 2.5 in eye; preopercle distinctly 

 denticulate; opercle with spine on posterior margin: gillrakers small, sharp-pointed, 13 on lower limb, the 



