PISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 9 



13401 Rapu Rapu Island. June 22, 1909. Length, 77 mm. 



1 example, San Miguel Harbor, Ticno Island. April 21, 1908. Length, 85 mm. 



1 example, San Roque, Leyte Island. July 29, 1909. Length, 105 mm. [1756.] 

 General color very dark brown, almost black ; snout and front of head paler, 

 bars bluish white; caudal lemon; soft dorsal and anal with very narrow 

 white margin. 



1 example, Simaluc Island. September 22, 1909. Length, 100 mm. 



2 examples, Sitanki Reef. September 24, 1909. Length, 92 to 105 mm. 

 1314G. Tumindao Island. February 26, 19US. Length, OS mm. 



12778. Limbe Strait, Celebes, East Indies. November 10, 1909. Length, 



115 mm. 

 2 examples, Tidore Island, south of Teruate. November 24, 1909. Length, 83 



to 107 mm. 

 5 examples. Tidore Island. November 25, 1909. Length, 98 to 112 mm. 

 1 example, Una Una Road, Binang Unang Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. 



November 17, 1909. Length, 103 mm. 

 45067 U.S.N.M. Seychelles. From British mu.seum. Length, 65 mm. 

 50434 U.S.N.M. Hong Kong. P. L. Jouy. Length, 95 mm. 

 57722 U.S.N.M. Japan. P. L. Jouy. Two examples, 105 to 108 mm. 

 59692 U.S.N.M. Urado. Japan. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length, 110 mm. 

 61679 U.S.N.M. Suva, Fiji. Dr. B. G. Corney. Length, 123 mm. 

 61690 U.S.N.M. Mauritius. Col. N. Pike. Length, 110 mm. Differs in the 



caudal fin deep brown with narrow white border above extending to tip of fin. 

 6295 U.S.N.M. Ousima, Japan. W. Stimpson. Length, 97 mm. 



AMPHIPRION POLYLEPIS (Bleeker) 



Prochilus polylepis Bleeker, Versl. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, 



vol. 11, 1877. p. 135. Amboina and South-east New Guinea. — Bleekek, 



Atlas Ich. Ind. Neerl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 401 (2), fig. 6; Nat. Verb. Roll. 



Maatsch. Harlem, (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 1877, p. 22 (Amboina and New 



Guinea). 

 Amphiprion frenatus Brevoort, Exp. China Jap. Perry, vol. 2, 1856, p. 263, 



pi. 6, fig. 4. Nafa, Okinawa, Riu Kiu. — Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1859, p. 148 (Japan). — Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., vol. 24, 1902, p. 597 (Okinawa and Shimoda). — Snyder, U. S. Nat. 



Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 504 (Okinawa). 

 Amphiprion tricolor (not Gunther) Ishikawa and Matsuura, Prelim. Cat. 



Fish. Imp. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 31 (Japan). 



Depth 134 to 1%; head 3 to 32/5, width II/3 to 1%. Snout 2% 

 to 3^4; eye 3% to 4^, 1% in snout, li/g to 1% in interorbital ; maxil- 

 lary reaches eye in young, not quite to eye in adult, 3 to Sy^ in head ; 

 teeth uniserial, strong, rather conic, anterior little enlarged; inter- 

 orbital 2% to 3, broad, little convex; infraorbital and preopercle 

 edge finely serrated. Gill rakers 5+11, lanceolate, robust, rather 

 short. 



Tubes in lateral line 36 to 39, pores in straight section 10 or 11 + 1 

 to 3; 5 scales above lateral line to origin of soft dorsal, 19 to 21 

 below, 19 to 22 predorsal; 4 rows of cheek scales. Scales with 5 to 

 7 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 50 to 53, with 4 to 8 trans- 

 verse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



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