Ig PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID^! 



Body oblong, deepest at about the origin of dorsal fin, being 

 2.2 to 2.3 in length ; head 3.1 to 3.3 ; depth of caudal peduncle 

 5.6 to 6.5. The broad, strongly and evenly convex interorbital 

 2.8 to 3.1 in length of head; the circular eye 2.6 to 3.4; the short, 

 rounded snout 2.9 to 3.3, or shorter than maxillary which is 

 contained 2.5 to 2.6 in head. Mouth very oblique, lower jaw 

 slightly projecting, tip of snout a little lower than inferior 

 margin of eye. Teeth conical and uniserial, those in front 

 slightly curved. Preorbital terminating posteriorly in a short 

 spine; suborbital with a rather indistinct denticulation ; all the 

 opercular bones serrated. 



Snout, orbital ring, interorbital space, and edges of preopercle 

 naked; rest of head covered with small scales. A deep notch 

 between the spinous and the rayed dorsal; dorsal spines low 

 and stout, the third the highest. Soft dorsal rounded; rayed 

 anal slightly angular; caudal slightly convex; pectoral and ven- 

 tral equal in length, the former ending before vent. 



Chestnut brown in alcohol, with two or three milk white cross- 

 bands ; the first descending from nape to subopercular bone, cov- 

 ering most of opercle and touching anteriorly hind margin of 

 orbit; the second band descending from base of the last three 

 dorsal spines and anterior dorsal rays to below the lateral line, 

 and continued posteriorly through the upper portion of dorsal 

 rays ; the third band, if present, occupying upper half of caudal 

 peduncle. A good series of specimens would show a decidedly 

 marked shortening of the second band and a gradual disappear- 

 ance of the third. Ground color of fresh specimens blackish 

 brown, with yellowish wash in front, below, and on pectoral fin. 



Of this species I have examined eight examples, 43 to 78 milli- 

 meters in length, from Bauang Sur, La Union; Atimonan, Ta- 

 yabas; Calapan, Mindoro; and Estancia, Panay. A female 

 specimen collected at Calapan in March, 1924, is 60 millimeters 

 long and is nearly ready to spawn. There are two specimens 

 from Cebu, Cebu, and one from Corregidor Island in the Ateneo 

 de Manila museum. 



This species is found from the Andamans, throughout the 

 East Indies, to New Guinea. 



AMPHIPRION PERIDERAION Bleeker 



PLATE 4, FIG. 1 



Amphiprion perideraion BLEEKER. Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 8 (1855) 437; 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 9. 

 Prochilus perideraion BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 



37; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 400, fig. 1. 

 Amphiprion perideraeus GUNTHER, Fische der Stidsee 2 (1876) 226. 



