POMACENTRUS 37 



a little rounded; ventrals extending to origin of anal; caudal 

 slightly forked, with the lower lobe a little shorter than upper. 



Blackish brown in alcohol, lighter on chest and opercular 

 bones. Usually a bluish white spot is present on the center of 

 each scale in the row above the lateral line, and some scattered 

 bluish white spots on each side of head and on anterior portion 

 of body below lateral line. All the fins have a deeper color 

 than the body has. 



Here described from eleven examples, 33 to 58 millimeters 

 long, from Calapan, Mindoro; Canigaran, Palawan; and Sibutu 

 Island, Sulu Archipelago. The only other record of this species 

 from this country is that by Fowler, of two specimens labeled 

 "Philippine Islands." It was originally described from the An- 

 damans and Nicobars by Day, and later recorded from Beo, in 

 Karakelang Island, by Weber. In his account of the fishes of 

 the Siboga Expedition, Weber places the species under a sepa- 

 rate genus, distinguished from any others by the enormously 

 developed lips which are puffed out and covered with radiating 

 papillae. 



Genus POMACENTRUS Lacepede 



Pomacentrus LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 4 (1803) 508; pavo. 

 Pristotis RUPPELL, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische (1838) 128; cyano- 



stigma. 

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



40; littoralis. 

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



65; polynema. 

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



68; breviceps. 

 Eupomacentrus BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 73; 



lividus. 

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



73; albifasciatus. 



Body compressed, oblong or ovate, with not more than 27 

 scales of moderate size in lateral series. Lateral line ending 

 before posterior end of soft dorsal. Teeth in one or two series, 

 compressed, entire or slightly emarginate. Dorsal fin contin- 

 uous', even, with 12 to 14 spines. Only the vertical limb of the 

 preopercle and generally the orbital bones serrated. 



Species numerous ; found about the coral reefs in the tropical 

 seas of both hemispheres, but abundant in the Indian seas and in 

 Polynesia.. 



