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Depth 2}4 to 2}i] head 3 to 31^, width 1^ to 1^. Snout 4 to 

 4}-^; eye 2^-4 to 3, greater than snout or interorbital ; maxillary ex- 

 tends little beyond front of eye though not to pupil, 2J/8 to 375 in 

 head; interorbital 3% to 3^, broadly convex. Gill rakers 6+10, 

 lanceolate, rather long and slender. 



Tubes in lateral line 16 or 17, pores in straight section 7 or 8 + 2; 

 3 scales aboA'e lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 9 below, 9 pre- 

 dorsal; 2 rows of cheek scales, none on infraorbitals. Scales with 8 

 to 10 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 64 to 92, with 2 series of 

 basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. XIII, 12, I, thirteenth spine 1^ to 1% in head, sixth ray 1}4 

 to 13^; A. II, 13, I, second spine 2 to 23/8) eighth ray IJ^ to 1)4', 

 caudal 1, rounded, or very slightty emarginate as expanded; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2; pectoral 1^^ to 1 j^sJ ventral 3^^ to S^/q in 

 combined head and body. 



Deep gray blue generally, but little paler on belly. Each scale with 

 narrow light blue basal spot. On head blue blotch before eye and 

 blue band along infraorbital. Cheeks, opercles and top of head 

 with rather large blue spots. Iris dusky and gray blue. Dorsals 

 gray blue basally, terminally dusky, also caudal and anal. Pectoral 

 dull brown, without basal spot. Ventral membranes gray, rays 

 brownish. Some small examples show dark neutral dusky borders 

 to soft vertical fins. 



East Indies, Phihppines, Riu Kiu, Oceania. Quoy and Gaimard's 

 figure is blue, fins all yellow, also band from mouth to eye and 

 suborbitals. 



14508. Biri Channel. June 2, 1909. Length, 58 mm. 



1 example, Cebu market. August 2S, 1909. Length, 60 mm. [1850]. 



2 examples, Grande Island Reef. January 8, 1908. Length, 48 to 50 mm. 

 51714 U.S.N. M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. 5 examples. Types of 



Abudefduf tawpou. 

 56262 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Philippine Commission. 2 examples. Length, 45 



to 57 mm. 

 71708 U.S.N.M. Okinawa at Nafa. Albatross Collection. 9 examples, largest 



62 mm. As Abudefduf turchesius by Snyder. 



ABUDEFDUF GLAUCUS (Cuvier) 



Glyphisodon glaucus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 475. Guam. 



Abudefduf glaucus Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher, vol. 26, 1906 

 (1907), p. 93 (Bacon). — .Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., 

 vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 264 (Cagayancillo and Ticao).— Snyder, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 419 (Misaki and Tanegashima, Japan), 

 p. 505 (Okinawa). 



Glyphidodon modestus Schlegel and MtJLLER, Nat. Ges. Nederl. Zool., vol- 

 2, 1839-1844, p. 23, pi. 6, fig. 2. Java Sea, north Java, south Borneo, 

 west Sumatra. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 1, 1862, p. 55 (Java). — 

 Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, pt. 2, 1865, p. 246 (Nicobars). — Day, Fishes 

 of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 388, pi. 81, fig. 6 (Andamans); Fauna British 

 India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 391.— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 548 

 (Luzon, Manila, Navotas). 

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