NO. 1266. LABROID FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 605 
According- to Bleeker, this .species loses with ag'e its black dorsal 
spot. Others have 3 black spots, and others 3 to 5 blue lines along- 
the forehead; scales sometimes with blue dots; caudal and tail yellow- 
ish in adult. 
This species is known to us onh' from the t^-pe of Potnacentrus 
dorsalis from Shimoda. This specimen, examined b}^ us, corresponds 
very closely to Bleeker's figures of partly grown specimens of this 
widely diffused species, and we are obliged to accept the .•synonymy as 
given by him. The name tripunctattis is, however, prior to trilineatus. 
(tres, three; jxoictatus^ spotted, the ,young having sometimes three 
spots, one on the opercle, one on the soft dorsal, and one on the back 
of the tail.) 
4. CHRYSIPTERA Swainson. 
Chrt/siptera Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., II, 1839 {azureiis) (not Chrysoptera 
Latreille, 1825, a genus of LepMoptera) . 
Paraglyphiclodon Bleeker, Holl. Maatsch. Wetens., 1877, p. 116 {honang). 
Glyphidodontops Br,EEKER, Cat. Fish., p. 128 {cyaneus = azureus) . 
This genus differs from GJyphisodon in the presence of 2 rows of 
teeth in each jaw, these teeth being- rounded at tip and notemarginate. 
It is divided b}' Bleeker into two genera, Paraglyphidodon., with the 
snout scaly and body rather deep, and Glypiddodontops^ with the 
snout naked and the form oblong. The name Clirysiptera ma}^ be 
retained, as it differs a little from Chrysoptera. 
{XpvGog^ golden; nrepov, tin.) 
a. Adult uniform violet black; dorsal rays XIII, 14; anal, II, 13 melas, 7. 
aa. Adult brown; young with one or two black ocelli on the dorsal; dorsal rays XIII, 
65; anal, II, 13 honang, 8. 
7. CHRYSIPTERA MELAS ( Kuhl and Van Hasselt.) 
Glyphisodon melas (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. 
Poiss., V, 1830, p. 472; Java. — Schlegel and MIjller, Amphiprion, p. 23, pi. 
V, fig. 2.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., IV, 1862, p. 45.— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. 
Pom., pi. cccciv, fig. 4. — Klunzinger, Fisch. Rothen Meeres, p. 526. — 
Bleeker, Holl. Maat. Vet., 1877, p. 124; Xias, Singapore, Java, Celebes, 
Solor, Ceram, Amboyna. 
Glyphisodon aier (Ehrenberg) Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., V, p. 473; 
Massuah, Red Sea. 
Glyphisodon violaceus Brevoort, Exped. Japan, 1856, p. 264; Riukiu Islands 
(Okinawa) (uniform dusky violet.) 
"'D. XIII, 14; A. II, 13; scales in lateral series 28; in transverse 
series 3 + 10. 
"The height of the bod}^ is more than one-half of the total length, 
the caudal lin not included; the infraorbital ring below the orbit is not 
much narrower than the preorbital. Teeth very narrow, scarcely com- 
pressed. Dorsal spines rather short; caudal tin subtruncated. Uni- 
form black, shining greenish." (Giinther.) 
