292 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Dr. Vaillant notes that the caudal angles are more prolonged in the specimens called Chromis 

 lepisurus, but a table of measurements sent by him shows no important difference in proportions. 



873. Chromis analis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). I'a lanu-moana. New Guinea (Macleay); Samoa; 



East Indies. 

 This well-marked species is common at Samoa, where about 25 specimens were taken. Life colors 

 of a very deep specimen from Apia, pale blue, light golden behind and on soft dorsal, anal, and caudal; 

 sides with a few narrow bronze lines; ventral white, dusky-edged, very long; caudal, dorsal, and 

 especially anal dark-margined; a little dusky shade at base of soft dorsal and anal behind; iris blue; a 

 dark speck in ]oectoral axil. 



874. Chromis ovalis (Steindachner) . Hawaii. 



875. Chromis elaphrus Jenkins. Hawaii. 



C76. Chromis dimidiatus ( Klunzinger). Tahiti; Raiatea; East Indies. 



Ifelia&tes dimidiatus Klunzinger, Fische Rothen Meeres, 529, Red Sea. 



Heliastes dimidiatus, Giinther, Fische der Sudsee, 237, taf. 125, fig. b, Tahiti, Raiatea. 



This species was not seen by us. It is very close to our Chromis iomelas, but according to the 

 figure of Dr. Giinther, and the description of Dr. Klunzinger, the posterior boundary of the black area 

 is at the front of the anal fin. 



877. Chromis iomelas Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 3.30 in length; depth 2; eye 2.10 into head, equal to interorbital ; dorsal xu, 11; anal n, 12; 



scales 2H6-8. 



Body rather deep and stout; head scaled, except between and in front of nostrils; teeth small, in 

 several rows on each jaw; caudal peduncle short, its length equal to its depth; preorbital narrow, 

 equal to about one-half of pupil; fourth dorsal spine about equal to postocular part of head; lobes of 

 caudal prolonged into filaments; pectoral fin slightly longer than head; filamei.ts of ventral reaching 

 to base of anal. 



Life colors, specimen from Pago Pago, anteriorly deep brownish black, abruptly pale lavender 

 behind, the color deepest anteriorly; a large black ocellus on base of pectoral; fins colored like rest of 

 body, the elongate caudal very pale lavender, the elongate ventral black. 



In preserved specimens anterior from a line with base of fifth dorsal spine vertically down, the 

 color is brown; all posterior to this line is yellowish white; base of pectorals black; ventrals black; four 

 anterior dorsal spines black, the remainder of dorsal yellowish white; caudal and anal yellowish white. 



This species is very close to Chromis dimidiatus, but the lavender-colored caudal region begins 

 much in front of the anal fin. Three specimens were taken at Pago Pago. The type is no. 51743, 

 U. S. National Museum, from Pago Pago; length 2.25 inches. 



878. Chromis axillaris (Bennett). Raiatea (Seale); East Indies. 



ACANTHOCHROMIS Gill. 

 Heptadecacantlms Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1876, 343 (longicaudus) . 



879. Acanthochromis polyacanthus (Bleeker). Fate and New Hebrides (Seale); East Indies. 



Family LABRIDjE. 

 CHCEROFS Riippell. 



880. Choerops anchorago (Bloch). Palau; Yap; New Hanover (Peters); New Guinea (Macleay). 

 (Chotrops macrodoiites Lacepede.) 



Choerops meander Cartier, from- the Philippines, is doubtless the young of this species. 



881. Chcerops brenchlyi Giinther. Misol. 



Champs brenchlyi Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1S72, 274. 



882. Choerops cyanostolus (Richardson). New Guinea (Macleay); Australia; East Indies. 

 Cossyphus ommopterus Richardson, probably not Champs schoenleini of Bleeker; certainly not Cossyphus schoenleini 



Agassiz. 



