﻿FISHES, GENUS ECSENIUS — CHAPMAN AND SCHULTZ 519 



extending to first small rays of caudal ; first anal spine buried in geni- 

 tal pad of female, but visible in male; anal lower than soft dorsal with 

 a small fleshy pad at tip of each ray in male ; caudal with 12 or 13 

 principal rays, those above and belov; irregularly ezserted beyond 

 fin margin in males ; pectoral as long as postorbital length of head and 

 half diameter of eye; longest pelvic ray about two-thirds })ostorbital 

 length of head. 



Coloration. — Male: Head and body uniformly light brown with a 

 bluish tinge on sides; two rows of well-defined, evenly spaced, dark 

 spots each smaller than pupil along the sides, the upper, of about nine 

 spots, above level of lateral line, the lower, along middle of side, be- 

 ginning behind pectoral, and containing about seven spots; no other 

 markings on head or body; fins without markings except pads on 

 tips of anal rays distinctly lighter than rest of fin. Female: Like 

 male. 



Remarks. — Set off from other species in the genus chiefly by the 

 number of teeth in the canine series on the dentary. 





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Figure 92. — Ecsenius pro-ocults, new sprcies. Holotype. (Drawn by Louise Home.) 



ECSENIUS PRO-OCULIS, new species 



Figure 92 



Holotype. — U.S.N.M. No. 144722, a male, 40 mm. in standard length, 

 collected by Chapman and Cheyne, May 20, 1944, at a little island in 

 Munda Lagoon near Ssssavelle, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, among 

 coral heads in about 10 feet of water. 



DescHftion. — Dorsal rays XII,14; anal 11,15; pectoral 13; pelvic 

 1,3. 



Nasal cirrus single and simple, rather bluntly pointed, as broad 

 as nasal pore on whose upper edge is it borne, about one-third diameter 

 of eye in length; forehead strongly projecting so that anterior edge 

 of orbit is a little beyond a vertical from margin of upper lip, giving 



