AMPHIPRION 15 



The description given is from a large number of specimens, 

 22 to 59 millimeters long, taken at the following localities : 



Calapan, Mindoro 88 



Bantayan Island 7 



Zamboanga and Basilan Island 13 



Samal Island 10 



Sitankai Island and Jolo, Sulu Archipelago 9 



Of this list of examples thirteen are ripe females, 45 to 59 

 millimeters in length, collected in April, 1923 ; May, 1909 ; July, 

 1908; and December, 1925. 



There are in the Ateneo de Manila museum one example from 

 Capas, Balayan Bay, Batangas, and several from Surigao. The 

 first Philippine record of this species is of one specimen, col- 

 lected by Weber at Sanguisiapo, Sulu Archipelago. 



This fish is well known for its small size and beautiful bright 

 coloration, the three milk white transverse bands being very 

 well marked. The ground color of the living specimens in the 

 Bureau of Science aquarium varies from orange red to light 

 carmine red, crossed by three bright, transverse, pearl white 

 bands which are edged in front and behind with black; all the 

 fins colored similarly to body; spinous dorsal and ventrals 

 margined with jet black; the rayed dorsal and other fins with 

 a white edge and a submarginal band of jet black. 



A common reef-dwelling species, occurring from the seas of 

 India and China, through the Indo-Australasian Archipelago, 

 to Australia and Melanesia. 



AMPHIPRION BIFASCIATUS (Bloch) 



PLATE 3, FIG. 1 



Anthiaa bifasciatus BLOCK, Ichth. 9 (1797) pi. 316, fig. 2. 

 Amphiprion bifasciatus BLOCK and SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth. (1801) 



204; CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 5 (1830) 294; 



GiiNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 3; DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 379, 



suppl., 800. 

 Holocentrus bifasciatus BLOCK and SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth. (1801) 



567. 

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



31; Atlas Ichth. (1878) pi. 400, figs. 4, 5, and 6. 

 Lutjanus jourdin LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 4 (1803) 191, 235. 

 Amphiprion laticlavius CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 



5 (1830) 296, pi. 132, fig. 1. 

 Amphiprion intermedius SCHLEGEL and MULLER, Overz. Amphi. Verh. 



Nat. Ges. Ned. Overz. Bezitt. (1839) 18. 



Dorsal X, 14 or 15 ; anal II, 12 or 13 ; scales in lateral series 

 47 to 50 ; with tubules 37 to 41 ; between lateral line and origin 

 of dorsal 8 ; between lateral line and vent 18 to 20. 



