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18 examples, Gane Road, Gillolo Island, Moluccas, Dutch East Indies. Decem- 

 ber 1, 1919. Length, 34 to 46 mm. [2093.] Prussian blue, vertical fins 

 dusky slate distally; in alcohol scale centers become dusky or blackish with 

 pale line in front, or at base of scale, giving appearance of black bars down and 

 forward and narrower pale bars down and backward; black band with pale 

 edges across snout and through eye, top of head sky-blue, mottled with black. 

 Pale shades throughout nearly sky blue. 



616S2 U.S.N.M. Ticao. R. C. McGregor. Length, 31 to 44 mm. Types of 

 Abudefduf sapphirus. 



47533 to 47537. A.N.S.P. PhiUppines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 

 Type and paratypes of Abudefduf parasema. 



ABUDEFDUF AMABILIS (De Vis) 



Glyphisodon amahilis De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, 



1884, p. 452. South Sea Islands. 

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



(1906), p. 287, pi. 42, fig. 1 (Apia, Samoa). — Jordan and Richardson, 



Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 264 (Calayan).— Snyder, Proc. 



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

 Glyphidodon hrownriggii var. xanthozona (not Bleeker) GtJNTHER, Journ. 



Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 7 (15), 1881, p. 234, pi. 127, fig. D (Oualan, Futuma. 



Samoa, Tahiti, Ponape). 



Depth 23^ to 23^; head 3% to 3i^, width 1% to 2. Snout 2% 

 to 3%; eye 2% to 3)^, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary- 

 reaches opposite front pupil edge, 2^ to 3 in head; teeth uniserial, 

 compressed, incisorlike, anterior or larger slightlj?" bifid; interorbital 

 3% to 3% in head, little convex; infraorbital and suborbital edges 

 entire and free, also preopercle edge. Gill rakers 8 + 12, slender, 

 lanceolate, rather long. 



Tubes in upper section of lateral line 19, followed by 2 or 3 irregular 

 pores; pores in straight section 8 + 1 to 3; 3 scales above lateral line, 

 9 below, 16 or 17 predorsal forward to nostrils; preorbital naked, 

 infraorbitals with single row of scales; cheek below with 3 rows of 

 scales to preopercle ridge, flange naked. Scales with 10 to 12 basal 

 radiating striae, edge scalloped; apical denticles 48 to 95, with 1 to 5 

 series transversely of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. XIII, 12, I or 13, I, fifth spine 1 3/^ to 2 in head, fifth ray 1}4 to 

 l}/s', A. II, 12, I, second spine 1% to 15^, fifth ray ly^ to 1}4', caudal 

 33^ to 33^3 in combined head and body, emarginate behind; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle IJ4 to 2 in head; pectoral 13^ to 13^; 

 ventral 3 to 33^ in combined head and body. 



Body seal-brown generally, largely uniform. White bar vertically 

 includes hind half of opercle. White vertical band from fourth 

 to sixth dorsal spines, extending below nearly or quite to vent, 2 

 scales wide. White vertical band, 2 scales wide, on front of caudal 

 peduncle. Vertical fins and ventrals all seal-brown like body. 

 Pectorals dark brown. Iris dark brown, with yellowish circle 

 around pupil. 



