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BULLETIN OK THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



197. Pomacentrus popei P2vormaiin & Seale, new species. 



llcuil )! in k'liglh; doptli l.'J; i-yi' 2.8 ill liead: snout '.i.o; intemrbital 2.75; dorsal xiii, 12; anal ii, 13; 

 scales 3-24-9. 



Body 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; ma.xillary not reaching anterior margin of eye, its length 

 ec|ual to eye; mandible 2.7.5 in head; greatest preorbital width 2 in eye, its margin denticulate \vith a rather 

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

 postoi'ior margin; body and head fully covei-ed with firm pectinate scales; uo 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 doi-sal 2.2 in length; longest spine 2.25 

 in hi'ad; middle ray of soft dorsal longest, 1.35 in head; oiigin of anal fin midway lietween 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. 



Fli;. ]i\—!'(jtnac/jnlruf: I'opn Evernmnn A- Sc.'ilf, new species. Type. 



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

 gined with lilack; a narrow brownish margin to dor.sal, indistinct on .soft dorsal; other-wise fins all yellow, 

 unmarked. 



One fine specimen (no. 3470; length 2.45 in.). Type, no. 5,5fKI3, 1'. .S. National Muse\nn, collected by 

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



Named for our friend and a.ssociate, Mr. Thomas Edmund Burt Pope, scientific a.ssistant, U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries. 



198. Pomacentrus alexanderse Evermann >t Seile, new species. 



Head 3.45 in length: ilei)tli 2; eye 3 in head: interorbital 3.2: snout 4.5: doisal xin, 14; anal ti, 14; 

 scales 4-27-9. 



Body compressed, elevated; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head: anterior prolik' 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 eye; 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 

 dcnliciihitc: opercle with spine on posterior margin: gillrakers small, sharp-pointeil, 1.'? on lower limb, the 



