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1448L Tomahu Island. December 12, 1909. Length, 90 mm. 

 3 examples, Tulayan Island. September 15, 1909. Length, 88 to 111 mm. 

 20683 to 20685, 21507. Ulugan Bay, Palawan Island. December 28, 1908. 

 Length, 72 to 98 mm. 



3 examples, Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. Length, 76 to 104 mm. 

 13623. Birabirahan Island, off Borneo. December 31, 1909. Length, 102 mm. 

 1 e.xample, Basa Reef, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 17, 1907. Length, 104 



mm. 

 13695. Cape Kait, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length, 104 



mm. 

 1 example, Dodepo Island and Pasejogo Island, Celebes. November 16, 1909. 



Length, 95 mm. 

 1 example, Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length, 86 ram. 

 52218 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. 7 examples. Length, 



48 to 109 mm. Reported as Chromis analis by Jordan and Seale. All have- 



the vertical dark bands largely faded out. 

 56146 U.S.N.M. Luzon. PliiUppine Commission. Length, 115 mm. 

 65718 U.S.N.M. Jaluit, Marshall Islands. 5 examples. Length, 95 to 125 



mm. 

 84269 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. F. Baker. 1 example. Length, 110 



mm. Reported as Abudefduf leucogaster by Fowler and Bean. 

 27702 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. Messrs. Harrison and Hiller. 1 example. 



Length, 102 mm. As Glyphisodon leucogaster. 

 31406 to 31410 A.N.S.P. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. 

 49244 to 49246 A.N.S.P. Phihppines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 



Length, 91 to 105 mm. As Abudefduf saxaiilis by Fowler. 

 31406 to 31409 A.N.S.P. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 88 to 



98 mm. As Chromis analis. 

 47531 and 47532 A.N.S.P. Phihppines. Type and paratype of Abudefduf 



philippinus. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 



ABUDEFDUF AUREUS (Cnvier) 



Glyphisodon aureus (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss.,, 



vol. 5, 1830, p. 479. Java. — Valenciennes, Regne Animal, Cuv. 111., 



1839, pi. 33, fig. 1. — Schlegel and Muller, Nat. Ges. Nederl. Zool.,. 



vol. 2, 1839-44, p. 22, pi. 5, fig. 1 (Batavia). 

 Glyphidodon aureus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 45 



(Amboyna).— Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. N6erl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 405 (6),. 



fig. 4.— Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 35 (North 



Celebes and Macassar). 

 Glyphidodon {Ambly glyphidodon) aureus Bleeker, Nat. Verh. HoU. 



Maatsch. Harlem (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 1877, p. 109 (Java, Celebes,, 



Amboyna). 

 Abudefduf aureus Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 348 (Banda). 



Depth \% to 1^; head ?>}i to 3%, width IJ/^ to \%. Snout 

 31/8 to 3^; eye 23^^ to 3, Ij^ to \% in interorbital; maxillary reaches 

 eye, 3 TO to 33^ in head; interorbital 2}4 to 2^^, broadly convex. 

 Gill rakers 8 + 17, lanceolate, moderate. 



Tubes in lateral line 16, pores in straight section 9 + 1 to 4; 3 or 



4 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 9 or 10 below, 25 

 predorsal; 3 rows of cheek scales. Scales with 7 to 10 basal radiating 



