. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 90 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 197. Pomacentrus popei Evermann & Seale, new species. Head 3 in length: depth : eye in head: snout ; interorbital : dorsal xm, 12; anal n, 13; scales 3-24-9. Body elevated, compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head; anterior profile evenly rounded; jaws equal; a single series of blunt, rather strong teeth in each jaw, none on vomer or palatines: gillrakers sharp, 13 on lower limb, the longest equal to one-half eye; maxillary
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 90 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 197. Pomacentrus popei Evermann & Seale, new species. Head 3 in length: depth : eye in head: snout ; interorbital : dorsal xm, 12; anal n, 13; scales 3-24-9. Body elevated, compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head; anterior profile evenly rounded; jaws equal; a single series of blunt, rather strong teeth in each jaw, none on vomer 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 in head; greatest preorbital width 2 in eye, its margin denticulate with a rather strong spine below anterior third of eye: preopercle strongly denticulate; opercle with a single spine on its posterior margin; body and head fully covered with firm pectinate scales; no scales on preorbital, about A rows of scales on cheek; scales on top of head small, about 20 series in front of dorsal; origin of dorsal on line with axil of pectoral, the distance between tip of snout and origin of dorsal in length; longest spine in head; middle ray of soft dorsal longest, in head; origin of anal fin midway between base of caudal and origin of ventral, the middle rays of fin longest, in head: second anal spine longest, in head; origin of ventral below axil of pectoral, its tip reaching vent: pectoral equal to head; caudal emarginate, in Fig. lb—Pomacentrus popei Evermann A Spate, new species. Type. Color in spirits, straw-yellow, no spots or dots on body or in axil of any I'm; anal lin rather broadly mar- gined with black; a narrow brownish margin to dorsal, indistinct on soft dorsal; otherwise tins all yellow, unmarked. One fine specimen (no. 3470; length in.). Type, no. 55903, U. S. National Museum, collected by Charles J, Pierson at Bacon, Sorsogon, P. I. Named for our friend a
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