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has been satisfactorily accomplished in an obscure work to which my attention has 
been directed by my friend Mr. Tom Iredale. The logotype of Pomacentrus was 
selected by Guichenot, 34 who wrote l ’ L’espeee qui a servi de type a Petablissement 
de ce genre est le Pomacentrus pavo des auteurs.” This statement occurs in livraison 
598 of Guichenot \s work and was probably published in 1838 (teste T. Iredale). 
As here restricted the family Pomacentridte includes Pomacentrus and its 
allies with compressed teeth and a denticulate preoperculum but, in the broad sense, 
accommodates Glyphisodon , Parma , and their relatives. 
Pomacentrus suvarovensis kStead. 
Pomacentrus suvarovensis. Stead, Koto Coll. Fish. Suwar. Is., 1907, p. 4, pi. i. Suwarow Island. 
In September 1907, the Department of Fisheries in Sydney published, by 
Government authority, a booklet entitled 44 Note on a Small Collection of Fishes from 
Suwarow Island,” by David G. Stead. Only two new species were therein described : 
Pomacentrus suvarovensis and Canthigaster australis. The holotype and paratypes 
of the Pomacentrid species were later presented to tile Australian Museum where 
they are Kegel. Nos. Ia. 2460 and 2461-2464 respectively. Examination of these 
shows that the species is a true Pomacentrus allied to P. pavo. 
Locality . — Suwarow Island, South Pacific Ocean (Lat. 13° 13' S., Long. 1630 09' 
W.) ; collected by A. G. Hobbs. 
Pseudopomacentrus niomatus (De Vis). 
(Text-fig. 2.) 
Pomacentrus niomatus De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales viii, 4, Feb. 21, 1884, p. 451. “ Locality 
probably South Sea Islands.” Type in Qld. Mus. examined. 
Pomacentrus inornatus Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Fish. Bur. xxv, 1906, p. 281. Emend, pro P. 
niomatus De Vis. (Apia, Samoa.) 
D.xiii/14 ; A.ii/14 ; P.16; V.i/5 ; C.15. Sc. 25; 16 tubes on L.lat. plus 2 
series of punctured scales. L.tr. 3/1/9. 
Head (16 mm.) 3*0 in length to hypural joint (48). Depth of body (24) 2-0, 
and depth of caudal peduncle (7) 6-8 in the same. Eye (6*5) 2*4, snout (4) 4-0, and 
interorbital (5) 3*2 in head. 
Eye large. Preorbital with a marked notch ; suborbital very narrow, 
scaleless, with one or two serrations anteriorly. Preoperculum finely serrated, its 
lower limb entire. Two or three rows of scales on cheeks. Small scales cover the 
interorbital and extend well forward over the snout. The operculum of the type 
is now denuded of scales. Interorbital very slightly convex. Maxillary reaching 
beyond vertical of anterior margin of eve. A series of compressed incisors in each 
jaw and extending along the rami. 
Body deep, compressed, covered with large scales which form sheaths for 
the proximal portions of the dorsal and anal fins. 
34 Guichenot, Diet, pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle viii, k ‘ 1839 ” (1838 ?), p. 502. 
