FISHES FROM NEGROS— JORDAN AND SEALE. 



783 



Family POMACENTRID.E. 



POMACENTRUS Lacepede. 

 55. POMACENTRUS LIVIDUS (Forster). 



Three specimens. 



56. POMACENTRUS DELURUS Jordan and Scale, new species. 



Head, 8; depth, li.lU; eye, 2.1(> in head; D. XIII. i:-5; A. II, 13; 

 scales, 2-JS-!*; snout, 8.75; inter()rl)ital, 3.o<); jireopercle strongly 

 denticulate. 



Body compressed, elevated; protile rather evenly rounded; depth of 

 caudal |)eduncle, ^.S;") in head; mouth small; tei^th in a single series in 

 each jaw; interorV)ital very narrow, about one-half as wide as pupil. 



Fig. (i. — POMACENTRUS DELtTRUS. 



the preorbital twice as wide as interorbital; ang-le of mouth is under 

 the anterior margin of orbit; top of head covered with very small 

 scales; dorsal spines graduated; the last spine not differing to any 

 degree in length from the first ray; base of anal, 1.30 in head; pec- 

 torals about equal to length of head, the outer rays slightly filiform, 

 hilobed, 1.12 in head. 



Color in spirits dark brown; tins, except caudal and pectoral, black- 

 ish; the caudal is a bright yellow, the line of demarcation ver}^ abrupt 

 and sharp at base of tin; a large blue-edged black ocellus on outer half 

 of lifth to tenth ra^s of dorsal; a small black dot above opercle at 

 origin of lateral line; no black dot at axis of pectoral or on upper part 

 of caudal peduncle. 



Two specimens from Negros, Philippine Islands. 



Ti/pe.^Cat. No. .51, U.S.N.M. Length, 1..50 inches. 



