2g PHILIPPINE POMACENTRHLE 



indistinct, between the rayed dorsal and anal ; dorsal fin entirely 

 chocolate brown, as is the ventral; anal fin chocolate brown near 

 base and lighter on outer portion; caudal colored similarly to 

 body. 



Cartier first recorded this species in the Philippines from 

 Bohol as Dascyllus reticulatus, and Weber from Sanguisiapo, 

 Sulu Archipelago, as Tetradrachmum reticulatum. 



This fish, well distinguished from Dascyllus trimaculatus by 

 the absence of the milk white spots, is rather common from 

 the Red Sea and east coast of Africa through the Mauritius and 

 the Andamans to south China and the Indo-Australasian 

 Archipelago. 



DASCYLLUS CAUDOFASCIATUS sp. nov. 



PLATE 6, FIG. 1 



Dorsal XII, 11 to 13; anal II, 10 or 11; scales in a lateral 

 series 27; with tubules 17 or 18; between lateral line and origin 

 of dorsal 3; between lateral line and vent 10. 



Body ovate and compressed, with the profiles about equally 

 elevated, its depth 2.1 to 2.2 in length; head 3.2 to 3.3; depth 

 of caudal peduncle 6.2 to 6.4. Interorbital space evenly convex, 

 its width equal to maxillary or an eye diameter, which is 2.7 

 to 2.8 in head; the short, bluntly rounded snout 3.4 to 4.3 in 

 length of head and about twice the width of preorbital at pos- 

 terior end of maxillary. Eye circular; mouth small, with even 

 jaws and oblique gape; teeth conical, in a villiform band; pos- 

 terior end of maxillary behind anterior edge of orbit. Orbital 

 ring entire; only the vertical limb of peopercle serrated. 



Scales on top of head extending almost to tip of snout ; orbital 

 ring and the rest of head completely covered with scales; ver- 

 tical fins with a low basal sheath of scales ; cheek with four rows 

 of scales. Lateral line ending posteriorly below anterior half 

 of the rayed dorsal. Dorsal spines decreasing in height pos- 

 teriorly from fourth or fifth, which is a little lower than the 

 second anal spine; rayed portions of dorsal and anal rounded; 

 caudal fin forked, with the lobes equally produced and with two 

 free spines on each margin of base; pectoral fin 3.7 to 4 in 

 length of body and ending above anus; outer ray of ventral 

 longest and reaching to base of anal spines. 



In alcohol the ground color varying from brownish to black- 

 ish brown, slightly darker on top of head and back; ventrals 

 and spinous dorsal blackish, the color of the latter extending 

 to the tips of the anterior rays leaving the rest of the fin brown- 

 ish; anterior two-thirds of anal blackish and the remaining 



