FISHES OF THE PHH,IPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 47 



1 example, Port Galera, Mindoro. October 27, 1909. Length, 80 mm, 



3 examples, Port Jamelo, Luzon. July 13, 1908. Length, 68 to 75 mm. 



1 example, Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 23, 1908. Length, 68 mm. 



2 examples, Port San Pio Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 11, 1908. 

 Length, 72 to 80 mm. 



13843. Powati Harbor, Makyan Island. 9 examples. Length, 58 to 90 mm. 



November 28, 1909. [2076.] Slaty-blackish. Predorsal whitish, also few 



last dorsal rays. Pectoral base dusky. 

 21413. Quinalasag Island. June 12, 1909. Length, 58 mm. 

 11 examples, Sablayan. Mindoro. December 12, 190S. Length, 46 to 75 mm. 



1 example, Sablayan, Mindoro. December 13, 1908. Length, 58 mm. 



19165. 19166, 19169. Santo Domingo de Basco, Batan Island. November 7, 

 1908. Length, 63 to 88 mm. 



2 examples, Simaluc Island. September 22, 1909. Length, 73 to 77 mm. 



4 examples, Sipadan Island. September 28, 1909. Length, 68 to 108 mm. 



1 example. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length, 44 mm. 



4 examples, Tapiantana Island. September 13, 1909. Length, 42 to 69 mm. 



2 examples, Tara Island. December 14, 1908. Length, 59 to 66 mm. 



1 example. Tataan, Tawi Tawi Group. February 20, 1918. [280.] 

 14479. Tomahu Island. December 12, 1909. Length, 77 mm. 



2 examples, Usada Island, near Jolo. March 3, 1908. Length, 56 to 68 mm. 

 Slaty-blue, scale edges brighter blue; posterior regions bluish white; pectoral 

 base black, axil white. 



2 examples, Tifu Bay, Bouro Island. December 10, 1909. Length, 70 to 



92 mm. 

 2 examples, Uki, Bouro Island. December 9, 1909. Length, 73 to 75 mm. 



1 example, Basa Reef, Gulf of Boni, Celebes December 17, 1909. Length 

 63 mm. 



2 examples, Buka Buka Island, Tomini Gulf, Celebes. November 20, 1909. 

 Length, 57 to 59 mm. 



1 example, Cape Kait, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length, 

 68 mm. 



2 examples, Limbe Straits, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length, 70 to 75 mm. 

 21364. Limbe Straits, Celebes. November 11, 1909. Length, 74 mm. 



6 examples, Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 24, 1909. Length, 



84 to 110 mm. 

 1 example, Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 25, 1909. Length, 



62 mm. 

 51587 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Alhatross collection. Type of Chromis 



leucurus. Length, 68 mm. Compared with our series listed above, though 



with the white confined to caudal and tips of soft dorsal rays. 

 51743 U.S.N.M. Pago Pago. Bureau of Fisheries. 2 examples. Types of 



Chromi.'i iomelas. 

 51182 and 51183 A.N.S.P. Pago Pago, Samoa. Capt. C. F. Silvester. Length, 



60 to 75 mm. 



CHROMIS OPERCULARIS (Gunther) 



Heliastes opercularis GiJNTHER, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 84, pi. 4, fig. 2. 

 Zanzibar. — Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 664 (Muscat). — 

 Saua'age, Hist, aiadagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 435. 



Depth 2 to 21/6 ; head 3% to 3%, width 1% to 1%. Snout 4 to 

 4%; eye 3 to 3i/^; maxillary reaches little beyond front eye edge, 



