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1 example, Nogas Point, Panay Island. February 4, 1908. Length 29 mm. [5.] 



3 examples, Pandanon Island. March 23, 1909. Length, 48 to 53 mm. 



22903 and 22904. Romblon reef. March 26, 1908. Length, 94 to 102 mm. [484 

 and 485.] Dark olive-green, scales purplish at bases posteriorly; breast and 

 anterior showing more of yellowish wash ; chin and throat purplish ; top of 

 head with dusky-purple shades ; black spot at upper corner of opercle ; 

 yellowish blotch about middle of back at base of dorsal ; fins all dusky, becom- 

 ing blackish distally, 



19533 and 19535. Singaan Island. September 21, 1909. Length, 120 to 128 mm. 



12 examples, Sirinao Island. December 31, 1908. Length, 37 to 43 mm. 



1 example, Tataan, Simalue Island. February 18, 1908. Length, 48 mm. 



8 examples, Tataan. February 20, 1908. Length, 47 to 85 mm. 



7 examples, Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length, 40 to 69 mm. 



POMACENTRUS FASCIATUS Cuvier 



Pomacentrus fasciatus Cuviek, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 426, pi. 134. 

 Java. — ScHLBGEL and Muller, Verb. Nat. Ges. Nederl. Zool., vol. 2, 1839- 

 44, p. 20, pi. 4, fig. 1 (Java). — GiInthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, 

 p. 19 (Philippines and Ceram). — Peters. Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 1868, p. 270 (Pulo Brani, Singapore). — Klunzinger, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, vol. 80 (1), 1879, p. 397 (Port Darwin).— Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, 

 Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 173 (Singapore). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., 

 vol. 1, 1895, p. 544 (C. de Cebu). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. 

 Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 263 (Ticao Island ) .—Weber, Siboga Exp., 

 vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 341 ( Sanguisiapo, Sulu Archipelago, Kangeang, 

 Nusa Laut, Banda, Rotti). 



DiscMstodiis fosciatns Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. N6erl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 401 

 (2), fig. 8; Nat. Verb. Holl. MaaCaoh. Harlem, (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 

 1877, p. 86 (Singapore, Pulu Brani, Java, Bawean, Celebes, Sumbawa, 

 Timor, Halmahera, Buru, Amboiua, Ceram, Philippines). — Beaufort, 

 Bijd. Dierk. Amsterdam, vol. 19, 1913, p. 127 (Saonek). 



Pomacentrus -fasciatus var. intermedia Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 

 1913, p. 340, pi. 6, fig. 4. Sanguisiapo, Sulu. 



Depth 2 to 2iV; head 3 to 314, width 1% to 1%. Snout 3 to 3% ; 

 ey^ 2"% to 3l^, 1% in snout, IV5 in interorbital, greater than snout 

 or interorbital in young; maxillary reaches to or little bej'^ond front 

 eye edge, 3^5 to 3i/^ in head ; teeth uniserial, compressed, ends slightly 

 rounded; interorbital 2% to 3%, broadly and but slightly convex; 

 infraorbital and hind preopercle edges coarsely serrate, former 

 nearly entire in yoimg. Gill rakers 8-1-12, lanceolate, rather short 

 and robust. 



Tubes in lateral line 18 or 19, pores in straight section 7 or S-j-l: 

 3 scales above lateral line, 10 below, 12 to 15 predorsal; 3 rows of 

 cheek scales and none on infraorbital or preopercle flange. Scales 

 with 8 or 9 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 73 to 158, with 

 1 to 7 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. XIII, 12, I or 13, I, thirteenth spine 2 in head, sixth ray V/^ 

 to 1%; A. II, 13 I, second spine 2 to 2i^, sixth ray 1% to li^; 



