56 POMACENTEID^. 



47. Glyphidodon leucopoma. 



Cuv. 8f Vol. V. p. 480 ; Less. 8f Gam. Voy. Duperr. Zool. Poiss. p. 189. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length (the caudal 

 included) ; caudal fin rounded. Greyish-violet : operculum white, 

 with a smaU black spot at the angle ; a black spot on the middle of 

 the caudal fin. {Cuv.) 



Coast of Oualan. 



48. Glyphidodon ainboijiensis. 



Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. ii. Amboina, viii. p. 72. 

 D. ^. A. ^. L. lat. 28. 



The height of the body is less than one-half of the total length 

 (the caudal fin not included) ; snout shorter than the eye ; the width 

 of the infraorbital ring below the eye is less than one-third of that 

 of the orbit ; each jaw with about forty teeth. Dorsal and anal fins 

 with the middle rays longest ; caudal deeply forked, with the lobes 

 much produced. Brownish-violet, the scales on the tail with a blue 

 dot ; caudal and the posterior parts of the dorsal and anal yellow, 

 the former with a brown band along each lobe ; a brown spot at the 

 base of the pectoral ; ventrals brownish-violet. {Bl.) 



Coast of Amboyna. 



49. Gljrphidodon luridus. 



Chsetodon luridus, Brmissonet. 



Glyphisodon luridus, Cuv. Sf Val. v. p. 475, ix. p. 509. 

 ? Stegastes imbricatua, Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fishes, pp. 63, 165. pi. 9. 

 fig. 2. 



D.i|. A.-^. L. lat. 30. L. transv. 4/11. Vert. 12/14. 



The height of the body is contained twice and a third in the total 

 length (the caudal fin not included). Teeth very narrow and slender ; 

 the sixth and seventh dorsal rays are produced into a point, and 

 sometimes into a filament ; the spinous portion Of the dorsal fin nearly 

 entirely enveloped in scales. Caudal deeply forked. Bi'ownish- 

 black, each scale of the lower parts with a bluish dot ; axil of the 

 pectoral, the ventral and anal spines bluish. 



Coast of Madeira. 



a. Fine specimen. Madeira. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 

 h. Fine specimen. Madeira. Presented by J. Y. Johnson Esq. 



c. Adult : not good state. Madeira. Presented by H. H. Methuen. 



d. Adult. Madeira. Presented by R. B. Webb, Esq. 



e. Adult female: skeleton. Madeira. From the Haslar Collection. 



It has been asserted by Lowe, and acknowledged to be the case 

 by Jenyns, that Stegastes imhricatus is identical with this species, 

 although Stegastes has been described as having a denticulated prse- 

 opcroulum and teeth on the vomer. 



