32 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRIDjE 



Ground color of fresh specimens uniformly dull violet brown, 

 becoming slightly lighter on the lower parts. Spinous dorsal 

 dark violet-brown, as were the anterior rays of the vertical fins, 

 the rest yellowish; caudal with a well-defined upper and lower 

 border of dark violet-brown, the rest of the fin yellowish; pec- 

 toral yellowish; ventrals lightly washed with violet-brown. A 

 dark spot superiorly at base of pectoral. In alcohol the violet- 

 brown color has become blackish brown and the yellowish color 

 has disappeared. 



Here described from thirteen specimens, 31 to 107 millimeters 

 long, collected at Tagapula and Sayan Islands, Samar; Gigan- 

 tangan Island, Leyte ; New Washington, Capiz ; and Tambagaan 

 and Bungau Islands, Sulu Archipelago. 



This species has been previously recorded by Fowler from 

 specimens marked "Philippine Islands." Although it is closely, 

 allied to Chromis xanthochir Bleeker, it differs in having a nar- 

 rower and more strongly defined dark band on each caudal lobe. 



CHROMIS TERNATENSIS Bleeker 



Heliases ternatensis BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 10 (1856) 377; 



GiiNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 63. 

 Chromis ternatensis BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 



161; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 403, fig. 4; WEBER, Fische der Siboga 



Exped. (1913) 359. 

 Chromis philippinue FOWLER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 70 (1918) 



63, fig. 25. 



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

 26; with tubules 16; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 

 3; between lateral line and vent 10. 



Body deep and much compressed, deepest at base of ventrals, 

 upper profile more elevated than the lower; depth of body 1.9 

 to 2 in length; head 3.2 to 3,4; depth of caudal peduncle 6.7 

 to 6.9. Diameter of the large, round eye 2.8 to 2.9 in length 

 of head and equal to the width of the strongly arched interor- 

 bital or the length of the maxillary; snout short, 3.5 to 3.6 in 

 head. Mouth strongly oblique, jaws even; two series of conical 

 teeth in each jaw. Suborbital adnate to cheek and extremely 

 narrow. 



Head and body completely scaled; spinous dorsal also cov- 

 ered with scales. Of the dorsal spines, the middle ones the 

 highest. Rayed dorsal slightly rounded and soft anal angular; 

 caudal deeply notched, with the lobes more or less produced into 

 filaments and with three well-developed spines at base of each 

 lobe; ventral shorter than pectoral, its tip at origin of anal fin. 



