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j. Without bronze spots. 



A. Maudible naked; second anal sjiine moderate; pale l)lotclies 

 on sides surrounded by purple. Orange red, tinged or 

 mottled with golden yellow. Fins rosy, mottled with 

 orange; head with radiating stripes of orange and rosy; 

 najte with alternating bars of yellowish and deep red. 

 Second anal spine 2^ in head; bead, 2|; depth, 3; D.XIII, 

 13; A. Ill, 6 ROSACEUS, 8. 



kk. Mandible linely scaled near its base; second anal spine equal 

 to maxillary, 2 in head. Bright rose red ; region above 

 lateral lino with much deep green, the green replaced by 

 golden below the lateral line. Top of head with cross 

 bars of green and red. Green streaks radiating from eyes. 

 Head, 24; depth, 3; D.XIII, 14; A.III, 6; tubes, 58. 



RHODOCHLORIS, 9. 



jj. Dorsal surface rather closely covered with small, round, bronze 

 spots, which extend upon the membrane of the soft dorsal. 

 Series of contluent bronze spots form radiating streaks on 

 sides of head; lower lip and anterior part of maxillary 

 dusky. A few conspicuous spots on base of pectoral. A 

 light spot under last dorsal spine, one on opercular flap. 

 Mandible entirely naked; maxillary with a few scales 

 medially. Preorbital with an anterior and a posterior 

 spine. luterorbital nearly evenly concave, the median 

 groove shallow. Upper three preopercular spines directed 

 backward. Second anal spine 3| in head. Lower jaw pro- 

 jecting; nosymphysealknob. Head, 3; depth, 3; D.XIII, 



13i; A.III, 7^.' Pores in lateral line, 44 or 45 gilli, 10. 



f/flfl. Preorbital very narrow, its least width less than one- fourth pupil, 

 lobate and without spine. Jaws equal, maxillary reach- 

 ing beyond middle of pupil; eye 2i in head, longer than 

 snout or interorbital, whose least width is one-half the 

 orbit. Nuchal spines present. Longest dorsal spines 3 

 in head, second anal spine 2| in head. Pectorals short, 

 lf-2 in head. Snout naked or nearly so. Scales on max- 

 illary and mandible minute and smooth, little evident. 

 Fins with a thick membrane covered with fine scales. 

 Five dark bars on back, two elongate black streaks below 

 lateral line. A black blotch on middle of ventrals, a bar 

 at base of pectoral and in axil. Head, 21; depth, 2g-3; 

 D.XIII, 13; A.III, 7. Pores in lateral line, 31. 



RUPE.STKIS, 11. 



//'. Dorsal spines little if any less than half length of head. 



/. Mandibles scaled, excei»t about the pores; maxillary evenly 

 scaled. Preorbital with a posterior spine only ; interorbi- 

 tal flattish, with a deep median groove, 1; in orbit; orbit 

 4 in head; second anal sx>ine 2j-3 in length of head. 

 Peritoneum white or dusky. Spinous dorsal deeply in- 

 cised, the membrane of the fifth spine meeting the sixth 

 spine near its basal fourth. Highest spine 2-2^ in head. 

 Head and body intense rose pink. Back and dorsal fin indis- 

 tinctly marked with raw sienna, fins colored like the body. 

 D. XIII, 13; A. Ill, 16; tubes in lateral line, 37-- . EOS, 12. 



11. Mandibles eulirely naked; maxillary with a few scales 

 above; preorbital with an anterior simple spine, or a iws- 



