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Color in spirits light grayish brown with darker brown spots and blotches, these connected in a 
coarse reticulated pattern on posterior part of trunk and caudal peduncle; scapular region, opercles, and 
cheeks sparsely sprinkled with coarse black specks; each upper jaw crossed by a broad band of dusky 
near tip, under which is a dark spot; spinous dorsal with a large squarish black blotch between third 
and fifth spines, and similar but smaller and fainter spots on the other membranes, near base of fin; 
outer edging of spinous dorsal white, above a submarginal zigzag streak of black; soft dorsal barred 
lengthwise with dusky just below middle, its outer margin dusky, the middle of the fin and its basal 
portion pale; anal marked like soft dorsal; caudal broadly tipped with blackish and barred crosswise 
with blackish near base, the middle of the fin pale; ventrals faintly dusky posteriorly; pectorals pale, 
with a faint diffused dusky spot at base. 
Fic. 9.—Gnathypops dendritica, new species. Type. 
One specimen, 5.25 inches long, the type, from Cuyo, no. 20313, Stanford University. On this 
specimen, Mr. McGregor has the following note concerning life colors: ‘‘General color brown, mottled 
with light yellow and dotted with black; head light yellow, sparsely spotted with black, but more 
thickly spotted on interorbital and postocular areas; pectorals rich yellow with an irregular dark spot 
at base; ventrals lighter yellow with black tip; dorsal mottled with brown, spines tipped with white, 
below which is a narrow black line; a quadrangular black spot between third and fifth spines; each 
membrane with a small black spot near its middle followed by a white spot; anal light yellowish, tipped 
broadly with black and with a dark brown bar across middle; caudal yellowish, irregularly barred 
near base and broadly tipped with black; a dark brown spot at base of caudal.’ 
Family ANABANTIDA. 
ANABAS Cuvier. 
160. Anabas testudineus (Bloch, 1792). (=Perca scandens Daldorff, 1797.) 
A single specimen from Sibuyan, 2.75 inches long. 
Family POMACENTRID&. 
POMACENTRUS Lacépéde. 
161. Pomacentrus nigricans Lacépéde. (Pomacentrus scolopseus Quoy & Gaimard.) 
Three specimens from Calayan, 0.75 to 2.75 inches long, and one from Cagayancillo, 3 inches. Gen- 
eral color in life of the specimens from Cagayancillo very dark, almost black; most of the scales on body 
marked with a dark violet spot; a band of violet from mouth under eye; fins black. 
The present species has twelve dorsal spines and a black blotch on base of pectoral and on last rays 
of soft dorsal. The specimens we have called Pomacentrus albofasciatus, following Jordan & Seale, differ 
only in the presence of the pale crossbands on the posterior part of the body. 
162. Pomacentrus albofasciatus Schlegel. 
Two specimens from Calayan, 2.50 inches long, taken from coral-rock tide pools. Dorsal spines 12. 
Color in life dusky brown; an ill-defined black blotch on anterior part of dorsal; a dusky spot on posterior 
base of dorsal; a broad white band across body behind tip of pectoral; a dusky spot in axil of pectoral. 
