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and soft dorsal, a dark saddle on the top of the caudal peduncle, a 

 very small dark point at the upper axil of the pectoral, a faint dusky- 

 area on the snout and nape, and about 21 very faint, narrow, dusky 

 lines on the sides following the hind margins of the rows of scales, 

 some of these extending above the lateral line, but none of them 

 reaching far below the lower edge of the pectoral. 



D. XII, 16; A. II, 15; scales 3-28,-11, the pores occupying 18 

 scales. The depth is yi total length to end of scales. Eye longer than 

 snout, % head. Head 3}^ in total to end of scales. Mouth small, 

 the upper jaw barely reaching to vertical at front of orbit. Interor- 

 bital space J^ head. First dorsarl spine as long as snout; dorsal 

 spines regularly graduated, the last one about ^ head; the 7th soft 

 ray equal to head without snout. The pectoral reaches to the 1 2th 

 row of scales; the ventral filamentous at tip and reaching to anal 

 origin. 



An irregular dark blotch at the bases of the last three dorsal spines 

 and the first three soft rays extending down to the lateral line covering 

 five rows of scales ; this blotch is considerably larger than the eye. A 

 small rectangular dark blotch forming a saddle on the top of the cau- 

 dal peduncle, covering three rows of scales. A minute black blotch 

 in the upper axil of the pectoral. Iris dark. Nape and top of snout 

 dusky. Fins all pale ; general color yellow, this also extending upon 

 the scales covering the lower portions of the dorsal and anal fins. 



166. Eupomacentrus fuscus (C. & V.). 



501 1 No. 495. Nonsuch Id. Eel-pot. 4 spec. Sept. 18. 



5012 No. 509. Wescott Bay. Seine. Sept. 25. 



5021 No. 702. Nonsuch Id. 4 spec. Sept. 25. 



167. Eupomacentrus leucostictus (Miill. & Trosch.). Yellow Belly. 



5016 No. 59. Hungry Bay. 7 spec. Dip-net. Aug. 29-30. 



5017 No. 120. Nonsuch Id. Seine. Sept. 3. 



5018 No. 477. Jones Bay. Young. Seine. Sept. 25. 



5019 No. 496. Nonsuch Id. Eel-pot. 2 spec. Sept. 18. 



5020 No. 688. Long Bay, Cooper's Id. Seine. 3 spec. Sept. 2 5. 



5022 No. 729. Castle Harbor, Cooper's Id. Oct. 25. 



5023 No, 742. Jones Bay, Cooper's Id. Under rocks. Oct. 28. 



5024 No, 881, Hungry Bay. Dip-net. Nov. 6. 



168. Microspathodon chrysurus (C, & V.). 



Barbour, Bull. M, C. Z,, xlvi, No. 7, 1905, 125. Two very 

 small ones from Sargassum off Ireland Id, 



