front and flenge of cheek and most of infreorbital naked; 
6 rows of cheek scales below suborbital edge; spinous dor- 
sal entirely covered with moderate-sized scales; soft aor- 
gal, anel, caudal and pectoral largely covered with close- 
set minute scales; scales with basal radiating striae 9; 
apical denticles 87; circuli very fine; tubes in lateral line 
simple, large, well exposed, last 3 scales from caudel peduncle, 
Fifth dorsal spine 2 in head; sixth dorsal ray 1 2/5; second 
anal spine 2 oy os fifth anal ray 1 1/2; caudel d-eply emargi- 
nate, upper lobe about long as head, lower 1 1/8; pectoral 
1 1/55 ventral 11 1/4, not quite to vent. Color in alcohol 
dsep uniform sepia, and no dark exillary blotch, Length 196 
mm. One without locality, doubtless from Callao? Peru. 
Compared with the figure of Nexilosus albarmarleus by 
188 
Heller and Snodgrass © » our example shows but a single 
opercular spine. 
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PAOLA 8 Ia ER AED OT OF OE re APR SFR Rare Te IR ER NE EE OU ER Gene theme 
188 i: 
Proc,Wash.Acad.,vol.5,; 1903, p. 204, Pl. 8. 
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¢ : 
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Amphiprion ephippium (Bloch). f+ 4.27 
Head 3: depth 23; D. A, 183 A. II, 143 scales S56 in upper 
erch of lateral line, and 9 pores in horizontal section; 6 
scales above lateral line to spinous anel origin; 5 above to 
soft dorsal origin, 17 below to spinous anal origin; 22 pre- 
