FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 45 



1 example, Tataan Island, Tawi Tawi Group. February 2, 1908. Length, 

 64 mm. 



1 example, Tataan, Slmulac Island. February 20, 1908. [172.] Yellowish 

 flesh-pink, more yellowish on back ; purplish shades on breast ; snout yellow- 

 ish. Dorsal with body color, tipped with black ; crescentie yellowish margin 

 on vertical edge. Caudal cadmium at base ; prolonged tips dusky, extended 

 forward ou upper and lower edges of caudal peduncle, fin yellowish medially. 

 Anal slaty, black on tips and edge. Pectoral dusky-yellow at base, with 

 darker area in upper axil. Ventral slaty. Iris pale yellow, with blackish 

 bar. 



1 example, Tinakta Island, February 22, 1908. Length, 67 mm. [D. 5160.] 



1 example, Tutu Bay, First anchorage, Jolo Island. September 19, 1909. 

 Length, 66 mm. 



1 example, Tifu Bay, Bouro Island. December 10, 1909. Length, 48 mm. 



4 examples, Basa Reef, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 17, 1909. Length, 

 57 to 66 mm. 



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

 Length, 52 to 53 mm. 



2 examples. Cape Kait, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length, 



52 to 57 mm. 

 2 examples, Sadaa, Celebes. November 17, 1909. Length, 52 to 58 mm. 

 1 example, Una Una Road, Binang Unang Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. 



November 17, 1909. Length, 40 mm. 

 15036. Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 24, 1909. 20 examples. 



Length, 38 to 66 mm. 

 6 examples, Tidore Island, south of Ternate. Length, 49 to 65 mm. 



{Ater, black; pes, foot, homologue of the ventral fin; with refer- 

 ence to the black ventrals.) 



CHROMIS DIMIDIATUS (Klunzingei) 



Heliastes dimidiatus Klunzinger, Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, 

 p. 529. Koseir, Red Sea. — GiJNTHEK, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 7 (15), 



1881, p. 237, pi. 15, fig. 13 (Tahiti and Raiatea). 



Gliphidodon Mcolor Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 



1882, p. 365. New Guinea. 



Chromis leucurns Gilbekt, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 2, 1903 

 (1905), p. 620, pi. 77, fig. 2. Avone Channel and near Kauai, Hawaiian 

 Islands. 



Chromis iomelas Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905, p. 292. 

 Pago Pago, Samoa. 



Depth 1% to 2; head Si/g to 314, width 1% to 1%. Snout 31/0; 

 eye 2% to 3%, greater than snout, I14 in interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches % or to eye, 3 to 3i/q in head; teeth conic, outer row large 

 and inner band in each jaw of 2 or 3 irregular series of smaller ones ; 

 interorbital 2I/2, broadly convex; infraorbitals partly free forward, 

 entire; hind preopercle edge entire. Gill rakers 7+20, lanceolate, 

 slender, long. 



Tubes in lateral line 14 to IT, often followed by 5 or 6 pores, which 

 may be irregular; pores in straight section 8 to 10-f 1; 3 scales above 

 lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 9 below, 17 to 22 predorsal; 5 



