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Depth iVe; head 3 >^, width 1^. Snout 3^4; eye 2%, greatel 

 than snout or interorbital ; maxillary reaches opposite front eye edge, 

 S}i in head; teeth very slender, simple, conic apically, form even 

 cutting edge, uniserial; interorbital 3, depressed or but slightly 

 convex; preorbital and infraorbital edges entire, free; preopercle 

 edge entire. Gill rakers 8 + 12, lanceolate, moderate, slender. 



Tubes 17 in upper section of lateral line, followed by 2 or 3 irregu- 

 lar pores; pores in straight section 8 to caudal base; 4 scales above 

 lateral line, 10 below, 22 predorsal scales forward to snout tip; 

 cheek with 5 rows of scales, of which uppermost as row from pre- 

 orbital along infraorbital. Scales with 8 or 9 basal radiating striae; 

 apical denticles 108 to 111, small, with 2 or 3 transverse series of 

 basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. XIII, 13, thirteenth spine 13^ in head, fourth ray Sy^'m combined 

 head and body; A. II, 13, second spine 1% in head, fifth ray 13^; 

 caudal 1%, slightly emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2; 

 pectoral 3 in combined head and body; ventral 3. 



In alcohol dull brown generally, more or less uniform. Iris brown- 

 ish. Above and at second and third tubes of lateral line whitish 

 blotch with greatest diameter little more than eye. Anal with ante- 

 rior half blackish, posteriorly grayish. Ventral with front half black- 

 ish, posterior half gray-white. 



This species is known only from the type, as reported by Bleeker 

 from Bawean, an example 80 mm. long. We have an example, 

 evidently the same species, described above, but differing a little 

 from the details of color as given by Bleeker. We feel, however, 

 that both the color sketch before us and our specimen may have 

 changed somewhat. In any case, though our example is now largely 

 uniform on the head and rest of the body, the lower fins have the 

 color-pattern of Bleeker's fish. New to the Philippines. 

 1 example Rasa Island, Mantaquin Bay, Palawan. April 2, 1909. Length, 76 



mm. [1493.] 



ABUDEFDUF BEHNH (Bleeker) 



Glyphisodon behjiii Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootscli. (Labr.), vol. 21, 



1846-47, p. 25. Batavia, Java. 

 Paraglyphidodon behnii Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N4erl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 



(6) 405, fig. 7; Nat. Verb. Holl. Maatsch. Harlem (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 



1877, p. 121 (Batavia). 

 Glyphidodon behnii Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 48 



(Java) . 

 Abudefduf corneyi Jordan and Dickerson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



34, 190S, p. 613, fig. o. Suva, Fiji. 

 Abudefduf coracinus Seale, Philippine Jou'-n. Sci., vol. 4 (6) 1909, p. 520, 



pi. 13. Sitanki Island, Jolo Archipelago. 



Depth 2}4; head 3}4. Snout S% from snout tip; eye VA, iVs 

 in snout; maxillary apparently not quite to eye, 3J^ in head from 

 snout tip; interorbital little elevated. Tubes 18 in upper section of 



