14 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID^ 



number of the dorsal spines, they probably all belong to the 

 same species. 



This species, which is new to the Philippines, occurs from 

 Madagascar and the Andamans to the Malay Archipelago, 

 northward to the Riu Kiu Archipelago and southward to Aus- 

 tralia. 



AMPHIPRION PEHCULA (Lacepede) 



PLATE 2, FIG. 2 



Lut Janus percula LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 4 (1803) 239, 248. 

 Amphiprion percula CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 5 



(1830) 298; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 6; Fische der Siidsee 



2 (1876) 225, pi. 124, fig. A; DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 379, pi. 



80, fig. 4; WEBER, Fische der Siboga Exped. (1913) 335. 

 Prochilus percula BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 



33; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 400, fig. 2. 

 Anthias polymna var. BLOCK, Ichth. 9 (1797). 91, pi. 316, fig. 3. 



Dorsal XI, 15 or 16; anal II, 12 to 14; scales in lateral series 

 50 to 60 ; with tubules 33 to 42 ; between lateral line and origin 

 of dorsal 9 ; between lateral line and vent 23 to 28. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed, deepest below third and 

 fourth dorsal spines, being 2 to 2.4 in length; head 3 to 3.2; 

 depth of caudal peduncle 5.3 to 6.4. The narrow, almost flat 

 interorbital 3.5 to 4 in length of head; the small circular eye 

 3.3 to 4.3, situated high up on side of head ; the rounded snout 

 2.7 to 3.1, its tip lower than the inferior margin of orbit; the 

 maxillary 2.4 to 2.7, or slightly longer than snout. Mouth 

 oblique, jaws even; teeth in a single row, their edges rather 

 blunt. Greatest width of preorbital more than half the diameter 

 of eye, its posterior edge serrated; suborbital and preopercle 

 with radiating ridges which terminate in spines. 



Top of head, snout, orbital ring, and outer margins of oper- 

 cular bones naked. Dorsal spines moderately high, the third 

 and fourth highest, while the posterior ones are very low. 

 Dorsal fin deeply notched, its rayed portion and that of anal 

 equal in height; caudal rounded; both pectoral and ventral fins 

 rounded and extending to vent. 



Color in alcohol -ranges from light yellowish brown to dark 

 brown, with three pearl white, black-margined crossbands; the 

 first concave anteriorly across hind portion of head; the second 

 angularly pointed in front from posterior dorsal spines to origin 

 of anal fin; the third around caudal peduncle; spinous dorsal 

 and ventrals edged with black; soft dorsal and other fins with 

 black and white margins. 



