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1 example, Canmahala Bay, Ragay Gulf. March 11, 1909. Length, 87 mm. 

 33172 and 13174. Cataingan Bay. April 17, 1908. Length, 98 to 103 rain. 

 8 examples, Cataingan Bay. April 18, 1908. Length, 102 to 138 mm. 

 13515. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length, 120 to 145 mm. 



8 examples, Little Santa Cruz Island. May 28, 1908. Length, 85 to 130 mm. 

 11347 and 15105. Mompog Island. March 3, 1909. Length, 130 mm. 



2 examples, Morongas Island. February 10, 1908. Length, 32 to 34 mm. 

 2 examples, Philippines. Length, 104 to 107 mm. 



19236. Rasa Lsland, Mantaquin Bay. April 1, 1909. Length, 144 mm. 



14044 and 14045. Sacol Island. September 9, 1909. 3 examples. Length, 



117 to 128 mm. 

 4 examples, Tataan, Simaluc Island. February 20, 1908. Length, 120 to 152: 



mm. 



6 examples, Tomahu Island. December 11, 1909. Length, 31 to 56 mm. 

 24139. Tomahu Island. December 12, 1909. Length. 35 mm. 



2 examples, Tonquil Island, east of Gumila Reef. September 14, 1909. Length, 



54 to 62 mm. 



19045. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. Length, 150 mm. 



7 examples, Apra Bay, Guam. November 19-21, 1907. Length, 75 to 125 mm. 

 52376 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. 11 examples. Length, 42 



to 135 mm. 

 56273 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Philippine Commission. Length, 127 mm. A.s 



Po ma cen trus trimacn la tus. 

 05991 U.S.N.M. Kusaie. AlMtross Collection. Length, 85 mm. 

 84235 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. F. Baker. Length, 160 mm. As Pomacen- 



trus prosopotaenia. 

 31522-30 A.N.S.P. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 77 to 100 mm. 

 9651 A.N.S.P. Samoa. Dr. H. C. Caldwell. Length, 75 mm. 

 48726-27 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. Length, 



55 to 02 mm. 



POMACENTRUS NIGRICANS (Lacepede) 



Holocentrus nigricans LAC^pi:DE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1803, pp. 832, 367. 



No locality (on Commer.son). 

 PomacGiitrus nigricans Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (Ich. Chin. 



Jap.), 1846, p. 254 (China). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. 



Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908). p. 262 (Calayan and Cagayancilo).— Sntder, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 504 (Okinawa). 

 Pomacentrus scolopseus Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 1824, p. 



398. Mauritius.— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 545 (Cebu). 

 Pomacentrus scolopsis Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 2S 



(Fiji). 

 Pomacentrus taeniops Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 425. Mauri- 

 tius Guam, Borabora. — Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Poiss., vol. 2 (1), 1830, 



p. 190 (not fig.). 

 Eupomacentrus {Eupomacentrus) lividus (not Schneider) Bleeker, Nat. 



Verb. HoU. Maatsch. Harlem, (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 1877, p. 73 (part). 

 Pomacentrus subniger De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, 



1884, p. 873, Cardwell, Queensland. 



Depth 1% to 2; head 3, width 1% to 1%. Snout 3 to 3^^; eye 

 3-i\y to 3%, 1 to IVs in snout, 1 to IV5 in interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches little beyond front eye edge, not to pupil, 3^4 to 3% in head ; 



