FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 151 



20082. River, Nakoda Ba}^ Palawan Island. December 31, 1908. Length, 



55 mm. 

 7 examples, Romblon Harbor. March 25, 1908. Length, 50 to 70 mm. 

 20 examples, Romblon Harbor. March 26, 1908. Length, 40 to 68 mm. Types. 



2 examples, Sacol Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 62 to 68 mm. 



1 example, San Miguel Harbor, Ticao Island. April 21, 1908. Length, 50 mm. 

 1 example, Santa Cruz Island, Marinduque. April 24, 1908. Length, 82 mm. 

 1 example, Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length, 58 mm. 

 1 example, Ulugan Bay, channel north of Oyster Inlet. December 28, 1908. 



Length, 50 mm. 

 1 example, Batjan Island, Dutch East Indies. June 5, 1909. Length, 46 mm. 



(Azura, azure blue; punctatus, spotted.) 



ABUDEFDUP LACRYMATUS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Glyphisodon lacrymatus Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 1825, p. 388, 



pi. 62, fig. 7. Guam.— CuviER, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 478 



(Guam). 

 Glyphidodon lacrymatus GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 49 



(copied). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 527 



(Koseir, Red Sea). — Steindachner, Abhandl. Senckenberg. Gesell., 



vol. 25, 1900, p. 440 (Batjan and Ternate). 

 Glyphidodon {Stegastes) lacrymatus Bleeker, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maatsch. 



Harlem, (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 1877, p. Ill (Sumatra, Java, Timor, Sangi, 



Ternate, Ceram). 

 Abudefduf lacrymatus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 



(1906), p. 285 (Apia, Samoa).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 



1913, p. 349 (Borneo Bank, SaUbalou, Rotti, Timor). 

 Glyphisodon nivosus Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 3, 



1853, p. 50, pi. 5, fig. 5. No locality. 

 Glyphidodon nivosus GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 47 



(copied) . 



Depth IH to 1J4; head 3 to Sj/g, width 1% to 1^. Snout 3 to 

 3/^; eye 3 to 3%, 1 to 1 3^ in snout, 1 to 1 yg- in interorbital ; maxillary- 

 reaches eye, 33^ to 2% in head; interorbital 2J^ to 3, broadly convex. 

 Gill rakers 10 + 13, lanceolate, slender, rather short. 



Tubes in lateral line 17 to 19, pores in straight section 8 + 1 to 2; 



3 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 10 below, 20 or 21 

 predorsal; 5 rows of cheek scales, of which uppermost row on infra- 

 orbital. Scales with 7 or 8 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 

 104 to 130, with 2 or 3 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XII, 16, I, twelfth spine 1^ to 1;^ in head, fifth ray 1% to 1^; 

 A. II, 13, I, second spine 1^ to l^^, fifth ray 1}^ to 114', least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2ys to 23^; caudal 2}4 to 2J4 in combined head 

 and body, fin forked and upper lobe usually little longer; pectoral 

 3 to 33/g; ventral 2% to 3H- 



Dusky chocolate generally, with small blue gray spots or dots 

 scattered over head, especially above on back, those on cheek and 

 opercle much larger. Small blue gray spots numerous over dorsals 

 basally. A small blue gray spot sometimes on sides of breast. 



