N0.1266. LABROID FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 599 
2. CHROMIS Cuvier. 
Chromis Cuvier, Memoires du Mus. d'Hist. Nat., 1815 (chromis). 
^e/i««e,s- Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, p. 495 {imolatus). 
Furcaria Poey, Memorias Cuba, II, 1860, p. 194 (puncta=multilineatus) . 
Ayreifia Cooper, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1863, p. 73 {punctipinnis) . 
Heltasles GtJNTHER, corrected spelling. 
Body oblong or ovate, the depth two-fifths to two-thirds the length 
of the body without caudal. Preopercle entire, or nearly so; lateral 
line wanting on tail. Mouth small; teeth conical, in 2 or more series, 
the outer series enlarged and blunt. Scales rather large, 24 to 30 in a 
longitudinal series; suborbital and lower jaw scaly. Dorsal fin with 
12 to 14 spines and 9 to 14 soft rays; caudal more or less forked, the 
lobes rounded or acute. Branchiostegals normally 5. Pyloric cseca 
2. Gillrakers long and slender. Tropical seas; species numerous, 
var3'ing considerably in form, perhaps divisible into smaller genera. 
[xpofxi^^ the ancient name of some fish, probably a Scigenoid, from 
Xpe^oo, to neigh, from the noise made by the fish.) 
3. CHROMIS NOTATUS (Schlegel). 
SUZUMEDAI (SWALLOW TAI); ABURA UWO (OILY-FISH); DOGORO 
(FOOLISH); GONGORO (FOOLISH). 
^eZia-s/es 97 oto^MS Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1846, p. 66; Nagasaki. — Gunther, Cat. 
Fish., IV, 1862, p. 63; Canton.— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 30; Misaki, 
Boshu, Kii. 
Chromis noiatus Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1900, p. 358; 
Tokyo; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1900, p. 755; Tsushima, Yokohama. 
Head 3^ in length; depth 2yV; depth of caudal peduncle 7; eye 3^ 
in head; interorbital space 3^; snout 3|; maxillar}- 3|; D. XIII, 12; 
A. II, 10; scales in lateral series 25; between lateral line and insertion 
of dorsal 3; between lateral line and insertion of anal 10. 
Bod}' ovate, the contour somewhat arched anterior to dorsal fin, a 
slight elevation over eye, the ventral outline less curved than the dorsal. 
Interorbital space convex; preorbital narrow, its width contained 3^ 
times in the orbit. Mouth very oblique, the maxillary extending to a 
vertical between anterior edge of orbit and pupil. Teeth in narrow 
bands on anterior part of jaws, the bands narrowing to a single row of 
dose-set teeth posteriorly, the outer series .■somewhat enlarged and 
curved. Pseudobranchige prominent. Gill rakers on first arch 10+20, 
slender, compressed and close set. Edges of preopercle and opercle 
entire. 
Head and body completely covered with large, weakly ctenoid 
scales; rather elongate, minute scales extending far out on the mem- 
branes of dorsal, anal, and caudal fins. Lateral line incomplete, ending 
below insertion of soft dorsal. Fourth to fifth or sixth dorsal spine 
longest. If in head; middle rays of soft dorsal longest, filamentous, 
