30 POMACENTRID^. 



body with a blue spot on each scale. A black spot, edged with 

 white anteriorly, on the back of the tail, immediately behind the 

 dorsal fin ; operculum with a dark spot above. 

 Red Sea ; He de France ; Bola Bola. 



32. Pomacentms cyanospilus. 



Pomacentrus cyanospilos, Bleek. Ceram. ii. p. 709. 

 prosopotaenioides, Bleek. Amh. ^ Ceram, p. 286. 



D. J|. A. ^^. L. lat. 26. L. transv. 3/9. 



The height of the body is contained twice and two-thirds in the 

 total length. There is no notch between the praeorbital and the 

 other suborbitals, their lower or posterior margin being equally and 

 finely serrated. The dorsal spines become gradually longer poste- 

 riorly. Caudal rather deeply emarginate, with the lobes rounded. 

 Brownish, sides of the head and the scales above the anal fin with 

 round bluish spots ; anal and dorsal fins very dark posteriorly ; axil- 

 lary or dorsal spots none. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



a. Five inches long. From Dr. P. v. Blocker's Collection (P.prosopo- 



toBnioides). 

 h. Twenty-three lines long. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection as 



P. cyanospilos. 

 c. Twenty-eight lines long. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



Dr. V. Bleeker has considered this species as identical with P. 

 punctatus, Q. & G. (see Enumer. p. 87), but I prefer to keep them 

 separate, as the latter species has a black caudal ocellus according to 

 the accounts of Gaimafd, Cuvier, and Ruppell. 



33. Pomacentrus moluccensis. 



Bleek. Amhotna, iii. p. 118. 



D. ^. A. -V.. L. lat. 26. L. transv. 3/9. 



13-14 13-14 ' 



The height of the body is contained twice and two-thirds in the 

 total length ; praeorbital much longer than broad, with a deep notch 

 anteriorly and with two spinous teeth posteriorly ; caudal fin emar- 

 ginate, with the lobes rounded. Yellow or brownish-yellow, most 

 of the scales with a bluish transverse streak ; a small blue spot at 

 the origin of the lateral line and a black one superiorly on the base 

 of the pectoral fin ; a bluish streak from the belly across the anal 

 spines to the posterior angle of the anal. 



East Indian Archipelago. 



a. Thirty-two lines long. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Collection. 



34. Pomacentrus interorbitalis. 

 D. -. A. -. L. lat. 28. L. trans'?. 2^ 9. 



13 13 "■ 



The height of the body is contained twice and four-fifths in the 



