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GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus.. vol 4, 1862, p. 19 ( China ) .—Day, Fishes 

 of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 382, pi. 80, fig. 10.— MEYEat, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. 

 Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p 34 (North Celebes, Macassar, Mysore, New 

 Guinea).— Day, Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 328, fig. 128.— 

 Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 544 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz).— 

 EvERMANN and Seale, Bull. Bui-. Fishes., vol. 20, 1906 (1907), p. 89 

 (not 3790, Bacon and San Fabian), 



Dischistodus trimaciilatus Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 

 404(5), fig. 5; Nat. Verb. Holland. Maatsch. Harlem, (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 

 2, 1877, p. 79 (Sumatra, Batu, Nias, Singapore, Duizend Islands, Java, 

 Celebes, Buru, Amboina, Ceram). 



Pomacentrus dorsomaculatus Kendajll and Goldsboeottgh, Mem. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 26, 1911, p. 298 (on Cuvieb). 



Depth 2 to 21/3 ; head 234 to 31/3, width 1% to 2. Snout 23/5 to 

 4; eye 2% to 3%, li/4 in snout, equals interorbital, much greater than 

 snout or interorbital in young; maxillary reaches eye in young, 

 little short in adult, 3 to 3% in head; teeth uniserial, compressed, 

 ends rather pointed; interorbital 3% to 3^^, level; infraorbital edge 

 and hind preopercle edge serrate. Gill-rakers 12 + 22, lanceolate, 

 slender, long. 



Tubes in lateral line 16 or 17, pores in straight section 9 to 11 + 1 

 or 2 ; 4 scales above lateral line, 8 or 9 below, 20 or 21 predorsal for- 

 ward oi^posite nostril ; 3 rows of cheek scales, none on preopercle flange 

 or interorbital. Scales with 8 or 9 basal radiating striae ; apical denti- 

 cles 92 to 186, with 2 or 3 transverse series of basal elements; circuli 

 very fine. 



D. XIII, 13, 1 or 14, 1, thirteenth spine 1% to 1% iii 1 head, eighth 

 ray li^ to 1%, first ray sometimes simple ; A. II, 14, i, second spine 

 2 to 21/5, seventh ray I14 to 1% ; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% 

 to 1% ; caudal 2i/^ to 3 in combined head and body, deeply emar- 

 ginate; pectoral 3% to 3% ; ventral 3% to 3^. 



Light yellow. Across interorbital broad white band and another 

 across occiput followed by pale brownish blotch at occiput, which is 

 more extensive and very distinct in young. White line from upper 

 end of maxillary back along infraorbital and another parallel, from 

 lower hind end of maxillary along upper row of cheek scales. 

 Scales on cheeks and opercles spotted with white and body scales 

 each with white vertical line, mostly faded out in preserved ex- 

 amples. Just behind middle of spinous dorsal basally and at bases of 

 last dorsal rays, 2 dusky blotches about size of eye and another at 

 vent, former 2 both extend little on back. Fins all pale or uniform 

 light yellow. Iris yellowish with neutral spot above. 



India, East Indies, China. One of the larger, handsome species, 

 not quite like any other. Our examples all have the tail pale, not 

 brownish as shown in Bleeker's figure. They have the submarginal 

 White anal band in some cases, though mostly faded out. In the 



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