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BULLETIN 180, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



LEPIDOZYGUS TAPEINOSOMA (Bleeker) 



Pomaccutrus tapeinosoma Bleekeb, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. 10, p. 376, 1856. 



115861, McKean Island, from mouth of Lutianus bohar caught off reef, April 

 30, 1939, 1 specimen. 



Genus POMACENTRUS Lacepede 



Pomacentrus Lacep^^de, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 4, p. 505, 1803. 

 (Type, Chaetodon pavo Bloch.) 



Table 18. — Fin-ray counts made on certain species of Pomacentrus from the 

 Phoenix and Samoan Islands 



POMACENTRUS PAVO (Bloch) 



Chaetodon pavo Bloch, Naturgeschichte der auslandischen Fische, pt. 3, p. 6, 

 pi. 198, 1787. 



115835, Hull Island, channel, July 8-12, 1939, 1 specimen. 



115836, Canton Island, lagoon. May 23 to 25, 1939, 4 specimens. 

 52309, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 12 specimens. 



POMACENTRUS VAIULI Jordan and Scale 



Pomacentrus vaiuli Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), 

 p. 280, pi. 40, fig. 2, 1906. 



115854, Tutuila Island, reef at entrance to Pago Pago Bay, June 2, 1939, 

 1 specimen, 



51740 (0 types of Pomacentrus vaiuli Jordan and Seale), Apia, Samoa, Jordan 

 and Kellogg. 



POMACENTRUS MELANOPTERUS Bleeker 



Pomacentrus melanopterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. 3, p. 562, 1852. 

 52305, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 5 specimens. 



POMACENTRUS INORNATUS De Vis 



Pomacentrus niomatus (typographical error for inornatus) De Vis, Proc. Linn. 

 See. New South Wales, vol. 8, p. 451, 1883. 



115834, Swains Island, reef, May 3-9, 1939, 1 specimen. 

 52291, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 2 specimens. 



