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and the same absence of scales on the suborbital, mandible and snout. 
Bleeker's species (from Bali, Flores, Tinior, Buro, and Amboina) has 
three rows of scales on the cheek, and 28 instead of 25 scales in a lat- 
eral series. The coloration (dusky violet with rows of pearly spots) 
is somewhat ditferent, but in both the dark curved bar at base of pec- 
toral is conspicuous. 
{ccelesti'f, sky blue.) 
6. POMACENTRUS TRIPUNCTATUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
Pomacenirns tripunctatus Cuvier and Valenciknnes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 
p. 421; Vanicolo. 
Pomacentrus vanicolensis GvviER and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, p. 421; 
Vanicolo. 
Pomacentrus emarginalus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, p. 
422; AVaigiou. 
Pomacentrus chrysurua Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, p. 423; 
South Seas. 
Pomacentrus triUneatus (Ehrenberg) Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 
V, p. 428; Eed Sea.— GtJNTHEK, Cat. Fish., IV, 1862, p. 25; ]\Iassua, Mohicca.— 
Bleeker, Atl. lehth., p. 406, pis. i to vi; Holl. Maats. Vet., 1877, p. 61; 
Sumatra, Java, Philippines, etc. — Day, Fishes of India, I, 1886, p. 382. — 
Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1901, p. 753; Shimoda, type of 
P. dorsalis. 
Pomacentrus biocellatus RtJppELL, Neue Wirbelthiere Fische, 1837, p. 127, pi. xxxi, 
fig. 3; Eed Sea. 
Pomacentrus marginatus Schlegel and Muller, Amphiprion, p. 20. 
Pristotis fuscus Bleeker, Bali, p. 9, 1856; Bali. 
Pomacentrus Intwiko Bleeker, Timor, III, p. 169; Timor. 
Pomacentrus hanhmensis Bleeker, Sumatra, p. 513; Banka. — GtiNTUER, Cat. Fish., 
IV, 1862, p. 26; China Sea. 
Pomacentrus t:vniometopon Bleeker, Amboyna, p. 283; Molucca. — GOnther, Cat. 
Fish., IV, 1862, p. 25. 
Pomacentrus simsiang Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., 1856, p. 90; Batavia. — 
GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., IV, p. 22. 
Pomacentrus dorsalis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 147; Shimoda; coll. 
J. Morrow of Comm. Perry's Exped. — Gunther, Cat. Fish., IV, 1862, p. 29; 
China. 
Pomacentrus punctatolineatus Cartier, Verh. Phys. Med. Ges. Wiirzburg, p. 98. 
Of the type of Pomacentrus dorsalis^ Gill gives the following 
account: 
D. XIII, 15; A. II, 15. The body is oblong oval, with its abdominal outline 
more arched than its dorsal. The head is small, and its outline from the nape to the 
snout is straight. The eye is large and near the profile. The suborbital has a simple 
strong tooth directed horizontally backward, and separated by a semielliptical sinus 
from the body of the Ijone. The suborbital beneath the eye has also one or two 
small vertical processes. There are about 25 scales in a longitudinal row on the 
side. The color is brown, with 1 or 2 obscure bluish dots on each posterior scale of 
the sides. The operculum and preoperculum have a few more distinct ones, and 
there is also a distinct black dot at the scapular angle of the operculum. A large 
black dot, bordered anteriorly by bluish-white, is on the posterior rays of the dorsal. 
There is a black dot at the upper angle of the base of the pectoral. The ventrals 
are purple; the caudal yellow toward the base. (Gill.) Depth in adult about half 
lentrth. 
