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Subgenus AYRESIA, Cooper. 

 1957. CHROMIS PUffCTIPINNIS (Cooper). 



(BLACKSMITH.) 



Head 4; depth 4f. D. XIII, 11; A. II, 10; scales 4-29-10, 18 pores. 

 Body oblong, somewhat regularly elliptical, the caudal peduncle long. 

 Head blunt, short, and deep, the profile abruptly descending to the snout. 

 Interorbital space high and rounded. Lips thick, the lower without fre- 

 num. Eye not very large. Teeth moderate, conical, in about 2 series, 

 the inner very small. Cheeks, opercles, and top of head scaly. Dorsal 

 spines stiff and low ; soft dorsal and anal rather low, pointed behind, 

 their tips not reaching base of caudal; caudal deeply forked; the lobes 

 pointed; pectorals and ventrals long. Dark slaty-blackish, with violet 

 luster above; some of the scales with a greenish spot or edging; fins 

 bluish-black ; posterior part of body with small round brown spots, which 

 form more or less regular series ; soft dorsal and caudal densely spotted. 

 Length 9 inches. Coast of California from Point Concepcion to Cerros 

 Island; rather common in the kelp about rocks; a handsome little fish. 

 (punctus, spot; pinna, fin.) 

 Ayresia punctipinnis, COOPER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1863,73, San Diego Bay, San Pedro, 



Santa Barbara. (Coll. Dr. J. G. Cooper.) 



Chromis punctipinnis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus. 1881,52; JORDAN & GIL- 

 BERT, Synopsis, 611, 1883. 



Subgenus HELIASES, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 1958. CHROMIS INSOLATUS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



(CHAUFFE-SOLEIL. ) 



HeadSi; depth2. D. XIII, 13; A. II, 12; scales 2^-25-9 ; pyloric cca2. 

 Body short and deep, with short caudal peduncle; caudal fin emargiuate, 

 with the lobes rounded; second anal spine less than 2 in head. Steel 

 brown; a curved blue streak between eyes in front, disappearing with 

 age; many scales on upper and anterior parts of body, each with a blue 

 spot; fins all plain, dusky; young with a dark dot behind dorsal fin. 

 Length about 4 inches. West Indies and neighboring shores, rather com- 

 mon about coral reefs; rarely north to Pensacola, in deep water. Here 

 described from a specimen from the Snapper Banks off Pensacola; a hand- 

 some little fish, (insolatus, warmed in the sun ; from the name " Chauffe- 

 Soleil," in use in Martinique.) 



Heliases insolatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 494, pi. 137, 1830, Mar- 

 tinique. (Coll. Plee.) 



Heliastes insolatus, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 61, 1862. 



Chromis insolatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 285; JORDAN & GILBERT' 

 Synopsis, 612, 1883. 



1959. CHROMIS ENCHRYSURUS, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3fr; depth 2. D. XIII, 12; A. II, 12 (D. XII, 11; A. II, 11, in one 

 specimen) ; scales 3-26-9. Body regularly ovate-oblong, the anterior pro- 

 file evenly convex; the caudal peduncle very short. Head broad above, 



