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BULLETIN OK THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 

 197. Pomacentrus popei Evermann & Suale, new species. 



Head 3 in length; depth 11); eye 2.8 in liead; snout 3.5; interorbital 2.75; dorsal xiii, 12; anal ii, 13; 

 scales 3-24-9. 



Body elevated, compressed; depth of eaiidal peduncle 2 in head; anterior profile evenly rounded; jaws 

 equal; a single series of blunt, rather strong teeth in each jaw, none on \omer or palatines; gillrakers sharp, 

 13 on lower limb, the longest equal to one-half eye; maxillary not reaching anterior margin of eye, its length 

 equal to eye; mandible 2.75 in head; greatest preorbital width 2 in eye, its margin denticulate witli a lather 

 strong spine helow anterior third of eye; preopercle strongly denticulate; opercle with a single spine on its 

 posterior margin; body and head fuUy eo\i')ed with firm pectinate scales; no scales on preorbital, about 3 

 rows of scales on cheek; scales on top of head small, about 20 seri(js in front of dorsal; origin of dorsal on line 

 with axil of pectoral, the distance between tip of snout and origin of dorsal 2.2 in length: longest spine 2.2.5 

 in head; middle ray of soft dorsal longest, 1.35 in head; origin of anal fin midway between base of caudal 

 and origin of ventral, the middle rays of fin longest, 1.35 in head: second anal spine longest, 1.75 in head; 

 origin of ventral below axil of pectoral, its tip reaching vent; pectoral equal to head; caudal emarginate, 1.1 

 in head. 



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Fig. 16. — Pomaccnlrvs popei Evermann & Seale, new species Type. 



Color in spirits, straw-yellow, no spots or dots on body or in axil of any fin; anal fin rather broadly mar- 

 gined with black; a narrow brownish margin to dorsal, indistinct on soft dorsal; otherwise fins all vellow, 

 unmarked. 



One fine specimen (no. 3470; length 2.45 in.). Type, no. 55903, U. S. National Museum, collected by 

 Charles J. Pierson at Bacon, Sorsogon, P. I. 



Named for our friend and associate, Mr. Thomas Edmund Bnrt Pope, scientilii' assistant, U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries. 



198. Pomacentrus alexanderse Evermann ct Seale, new species. 



Head 3.45 in length; depth 2: eye 3 in head; interorbital 3.2; snout 4..'i; dorsal xiii 14; anal ii, 14; 

 scales 4-27-9. 



Boily comprcs.sed, elevated; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head; anterior profile evenly rounded; mouth 

 small; teetli in a single row in each jaw; maxillary ending on a line with anterior margin of orbit, its length 

 slightly less than eye; mandible 3.1 in head; preorbital with some minute denticulations and one rather 

 strong spine below anterior margin of pupil; greatest width of preorbital 2.5 in eye; picopcrcle distinctlv 

 denticulate; opercle with spine on posterior margin; gillrakers small, sharp-pointed, 13 on lower limb the 



