FISHES OF THE PHHiIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 35 



2 examples, Una Una Road, Binang Unang Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. 



November 17, 1909. Length, 58 to 90 mm. 

 1 example, Una Una Road. November IS, 1909. Length, 39 mm. 

 12 examples, Gaue Road, Gillolo Island, Sloluecas. December 1, 1909. Length. 



65 to 6S mm. 

 1 example, Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 24, 1909. Length, 



70 mm. 

 1 example, Tidore Island. November 25, 1909. Length, 80 mm. 

 47541 to 47547 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum Philadelphia. 



Type and paratypes of Chromis philippinus. Length, 58 to 75 mm. 



CHROMIS AMBOINENSIS (Bleeker) 



Heliases amboinensis Bleekek, Nat. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873, p. 111. 



Amboina. 

 Chromis ambainensis Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. Neerl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 403 



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



1877, p. 162 (Amboina). 



Depth 13/4 to 1% ? liead 3 to 314, width 1% to 1%- Snout 31/2 to 

 ^Vs ? eye 2% to 3, greater than snout, ll^ in interorbital or greater 

 than interorbital in young ; maxillary reaches eye in young, little be- 

 yond front eye edge with age, Zy^ to 3^/4 in head; teeth conic, in 

 several series, an outer row of enlarged ones and narrow inner band 

 of 1 to 3 irregular series ; interorbital 21/2 to 3% in head, broad, but 

 little convex; infraorbital little free and like hind preopercle edge 

 entire. Gill rakers 7+20, lanceolate, slender, rather long. 



Tubes in lateral line 12 to 14, pores in straight section 7 or 8 + or 

 1; 3 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 9 below, 18 

 predorsal forward to snout tip ; 4 rows of cheek scales, with upper- 

 most row on infraorbitals and extend forward to completely cover 

 preorbital. Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 

 90 to 141, with 1 to 3 transverse series of basal elements; circuli 

 fine. 



D. XII, 11, I or 12, I. twelfth spine 1% in head, fifth ray 21/2 

 to 31,4 in combined head and bod}^, first ray often simple; A. II, 12, i 

 or 13, 1, second spine 1% to 1% in head, eighth ray 2% to 3i/^ in com- 

 bined head and body, first ray often simple; caudal deeply and 

 slenderly forked, 1% to m ; pectoral 21/2 to 2% ; ventral 21/2 to 22/3 ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle V/g to 2 in head. 



Light brown generally, becoming very pale to whitish below, edges 

 of scales very obscurely darker. Iris brownish. Infraorbital gray 

 white. Dorsals and anals deep brown terminally, last rays of soft 

 dorsal and soft anal abruptly whitish. Caudal with upper and lower 

 edges broadly duslcy, medianly whitish. Upper and lower edges of 

 caudal peduncle slightly darker brown than sides. Paired fins pale 

 brownish. Pectoral sometimes with faint brown shade or blotch 

 basally, axil pale. Ventral dusky terminally, front edge narrowly 

 whitish. 



