3() PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID^E 



Color in alcohol violet-brown, with a faint blackish spot on 

 each scale; caudal peduncle and fin bright yellow, the line of 

 demarcation between this color and that of body rather abrupt ; 

 dorsal, anal, and ventral fins dark violet-brown, and the posterior 

 rays of the first two tipped with white ; axil of pectoral dark ; an 

 irregular blackish blotch occupies the center of the middle caudal 

 rays. 



I have examined in the Bureau of Science collection fourteen 

 specimens, 97 to 106 millimeters in length, obtained at the fol- 

 lowing localities: Monja Island, Corregidor; Hamilo, Batangas; 

 Baco and Calapan, Mindoro; Sibuyan Island; New Washington, 

 Capiz; and Bungau Island, Sulu Archipelago. The largest of 

 these is a male, and the others are females in near-breeding 

 condition, collected in March, 1926 ; April, 1922 ; July, 1925 ; and 

 October, 1921. 



This species, which is new to the Philippines, was originally 

 described from Banda Neira by Bleeker. He recorded it also 

 from Singapore, and Weber collected three specimens at Beo, 

 Karakelang Island. 



CHROMIS XANTHOCHIR Bleeker 



Heliases xantlwchir BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 2 (1851) 248; 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 62. 

 Chromis xanthochir BLEEKER, Nat. Verb Roll. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 



158; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 402, fig. 5. 



Dorsal XII, 11; anal II, 10 or 11; scales in lateral series 

 26; with tubules 15 to 18; between lateral line and origin of 

 dorsal 3; between lateral line and vent 9. 



Dorsal and ventral profiles of the ovate body equally and 

 evenly arched; greatest depth 2.2 to 2.5 in length; head 3.2 

 to 3.5; depth of caudal peduncle 6.6 to 7. Diameter of the 

 large, round eye about equal to the width of the strongly 

 convex interorbital, 2.8 to 3.2 in length of head; the short, 

 slightly pointed snout 3.4 to 4, its tip on a line with center of 

 pupil ; maxillary 2.7 to 3, extending posteriorly well behind an- 

 terior margin of orbit. Width of preorbital at angle of mouth 

 less than half diameter of eye. Teeth in front strong and con- 

 ical; one or more series of small ones behind. Suborbital ad- 

 nate to cheek ; opercle with a flat spine behind. 



Head and body completely scaled. Dorsal spines rather slen- 

 der, the middle ones highest. Soft dorsal and anal highest along 

 the middle, the former more pointed; caudal deeply cleft, with 



