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5 examples, Tara Island. December 15, 1908. Leugth, 85 to 95 mm. [791. J 

 Olive-brown, with more or less purplish shade ; posterior regions with 

 orange ; pediuicle and caudal fin bright orange, tip of fin dusky ; no orange 

 on dorsal or anal ; paired fins, dorsal and anal blackish ; axil of pectoral 

 bright orange ; iris purplish ; below purplish shades on side of head. 



4 examples, Tara Island. December 15, 1908. Length, 76 to 99 mm. [792.] 

 Almost uniform blackish-brown ; no markings apparent except small black 

 blotch at upper angle of opercle, and in one specimen umber blotch under 

 middle of soft dorsal and another at axil. 



1 example, Tata an Island, Simaluc. February 18, 1908. Length, 50 mm. 



4 examples, Tataan Bay, Simaluc Island. February 20, 1908. Length, 49 to 

 85 mm. [170.] Grass-green, becoming olive on back and sulphur-yellow on 

 belly ; abundantly dotted with light purple specks, these tending to form lines 

 on extreme lower side ; dusky stripe through eye and front of nose, ending 

 as black stripe at upper corner of opercle ; dorsal body-color at base, tips of 

 spinous portion olive, median region barred with irregular dashes of citron- 

 yellow ; soft portion pale olive, rays with yellow lines ; caudal olive-gray 

 distally, with cadmium shades at base ; anal cadmium, spine tipped with 



• olive ; ventral sulphur-yellow ; pectoral hyaline, with dusky at tips ; iris dark 

 green, with purple shades. 



5 examples, Togian Bay, Togian Island. November 19, 1909. Length, 41 to 

 78 mm. 



1 example, Tumindao Island. February 26, 1908. [322.] 



14529. Ulugan Bay, Rita Island. December 29, 1908. Length, 80 mm. 



3 examples, Ulugan Bay, Channel north of Oyster Inlet. December 28, 1908. 

 Length, 90 to 98 mm. 



4 examples, Varadero Bay, Miudoro. July 23, 1909. Length, 67 to 97 mm. 

 1 example. Length, 70 mm. [323.] 



12918. Buka Buka Island, Celebes. November 20, 1909. Length, 83 mm. 



21403. Gane Road, Gillolo Island, IMoluccas. December 1, 1909. Length, 

 82 mm. 



22431. Labuandata Bay, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 18, 1909. Length, 

 85 mm. 



55903 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Length, 59 mm. Type of Pomacentrus popei. This 

 shows a very faint trace of dark spot at beginning of lateral line and an- 

 other at pectoral origin. 



56002 U.S.N.M. Luzon. Length, 100 mm. 



56188 U.S.N.M. Luzon. Length, 64 mm. As Ahudefduf glaucus. 



56231 U.S.N.M. Luzon. Length, 68 mm. As Poftiaceniriis moluccensis. 



47519 to 47525 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 

 Type and paratypes of Pomacentrus hebardi. 



47526 and 47527 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 

 Type and paratype of P. hurroughi. 



POMACENTRUS MELANOPTERUS Sleeker 



Pomacentrus mclanoptGrus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, 

 p. 562. Amboina.— GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 24 

 (East Indies).— Bleeker, Atlas Ich. lud. N<§erl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 402 (3), 

 fig. 6.— Snydee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 504 (Okinawa). 



Pomacentrus {Pseudopomacentrus) tnelanopterus Bleeker, Nat. Verh. 

 Holl. Maatsch. Harlem, (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 1877, p. 55 (Java, 

 Bawean, Bali, Flores, Buru, Amboina, Ceram, New Guinea). 



Pomacentrus 'bracliialis (not Schlegel and Muller) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 420 (Java). 



