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spines blackish, i-emainder of fin body color ; like dorsal with more drab 

 posteriorly. Caudal narrowly blue at upper edge, dusky at lower, fin gray- 

 ish. Ventral somewhat drab, front dusky. Pectoral dusky hyaline. Iris 

 narrowly golden, purplish below. 



14210 and 14211. Taganak Island. January 7. 1909. Length, 122 to 125 mm. 



14384. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length, 132 mm. 



4 examples, Tara Island. December 14, 190S. Length, 126 to 132 mm. 



11109 and 11110. Tara Island. December 15, 190S. Length, 130 mm. 



14337. Tobea Island. December 14, 1909. Length, 98 mm. 



1 example, Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 154 mm. 



2 examples, Ulugan Bay, channel north of Oyster Inlet. December 28, 1908. 

 Length, 118 to 130 mm. 



14521. Ulugan Bay, Rita Island. December 29, 190S. Length, 130 mm. 

 48623 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. Length, 

 102 mm. 



POMACENTRUS PRISTIGER Valenciennes 



Pomacentrus pristiger Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 9, 1833, p. 506. 

 Mauritius. — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 425, pi. 46, 

 fig. 4 (type). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 

 (1908), p. 263 (Cuyo). 



Pomacentrus clirysopoecilns (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Schlegel and 

 MuLLEE, Nat. Ges. Nederl. Zool., vol. 2, 1839^4, p. 21, pi. 5, fig. 3, Java.— 

 GuNTHEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 20 (East Indies and type 

 of P. notostigmus). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 270 

 (Pulo Brani, Singapore). — Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 

 1885, p. 34 (Cebu). — Karoli, Terraesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, 

 p. 173 (SiKgapore). — Wece2{, Zool. Forsch. Austral. Ritter Semon, vol. 5, 

 1895, p. 271 (Ambon). 



Pomacentrus chrysopocitus Elera, Cat. Fauna. Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 545 

 (Cebu). 



Dischistodus chrysopoecilus Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. N§erl., vol. 9, 1877, 

 pi. 406 (7). fig. 9.— BleeivEr, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maatsch. Harlem, (No. 6), 

 ser. 3, vol. 2, 1877, p. 84 (Singapore, Pulu Brani, Java, Bawean, Celebes, 

 Buru, Amboina, Ceram, Coram, Guebe). 



Pomacentrus {Dischistodus) chrysopoecilus Steindachner, Abhandl. Senck- 

 enberg. Gesell., vol. 25, 1900, p. 440 (Batjan). 



Pomacentrus notostigmus Richardson, Zool. Voy. Sulphur, Fish., 1844, p. 

 89, pi. 44, figs. 1-4. Southern Pacific. 



Depth 2 to 21/6 1 head 2% to 33/5, width li/g to 1%. Snout 2% 

 to 314; eye 3 to Sy^, 1 to ly^ in snout, li/g to ll^ in interorbital or 

 little more than interorbital in young: maxillary not quite reaching 

 •eye, reaches eye in young, 3^4 to 3^^ in head; teeth uniserial, com- 

 pressed, ends little pointed; interorbital 2% to 3^/4, broadly convex; 

 infraorbital and hind preopercle edge coarsely denticulate. Gill 

 rakers 6 to 8-|-12 or 13, lanceolate, moderate. 



Tubes in lateral line IT or 18, sometimes followed by 3 or 4 irregular 

 pores; pores in straight section 7 or 8 + 0; 3 to 5 scales above lateral 

 line, 9 or 10 below, 13 to 24 predorsal forward till opposite front eye 

 edge or nostril; 4 rows of cheek scales and none on infraorbitals. 

 Scales with 7 to 10 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 104 to 161, 

 with 1 or 2 series of basal elements, circuli fine. 



