44 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID.E 



doubtedly spawns the year round, since a number of the above 

 examples, collected in different months, were found to be in 

 near-breeding condition. 



Living specimens in the Bureau of Science aquarium, taken at 

 Calapan, are deep blue, this color passing into bright lemon yel- 

 low on the underparts and on anal, caudal peduncle, and fin; 

 first spine and outer edge of anal bluish black; outer edge of 

 caudal fin grayish; posterior dorsal rays yellow; ventral fin 

 yellow, its spine bluish violet; a black spot at origin of lateral 

 line and another superiorly at base of pectoral. 



Pomacentrus pavo var.? Cartier is probably this species. 



This very handsome little fish is abundant in the Indo-Aus- 

 tralasian Archipelago, and ranges from the Red Sea and the 

 east coast of Africa to Polynesia. 



POMACENTRUS VIOLASCENS Bleeker 



Pristotis violascens BLEEKER, Contr. Ichth. Sumb. Journ. Ind. Arch. 



2 (1848) 637. 

 Pomacentrus violascens BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 12 (1856) 



222; GiiNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 20; BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Holl. 



Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 46; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 408, fig. 6. 

 Dascyllus xanthurus BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned, Ind. 4 (1853) 117. 

 Tetradrachmum xanthurus BLEEKER, Ned. Tijd. Dierk. 1 (1863) 250. 



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

 26; with tubules 17 or 18; between lateral line and origin of 

 dorsal 3; between lateral line and vent 9. 



Body oblong and slightly elongate, its profiles equally elevated ; 

 depth of body 2.3 to 2.4 in length ; head 3.1 to 3.3 ; depth of caudal 

 peduncle 6.1 to 6.2. Interorbital space evenly arched, 3 to 3.2 

 in head ; the large, round eye 3 to 3.6 ; snout shorter than maxil- 

 lary, which is 2.8 to 3 in head. Mouth oblique, jaws even, 

 tip of snout slightly higher than lower margin of orbit; teeth 

 biserial, those in outer row truncate. Preorbital slightly 

 notched in front; suborbital smooth; opercle with a large flat 

 spine and two closely opposed small ones. 



Head and body everywhere covered with scales. Dorsal spines 

 increasing in height posteriorly. Middle rays of vertical fins 

 and lobes of caudal more or less produced into filaments ; pectoral 

 fin extending to anus, and ventral at origin of anal fin. 



Violet-brown in alcohol, with a bluish vertical streak on each 

 scale; dorsal fin darker than ground color to fourth ray, the 

 remaining portion yellow; anal entirely dusky or with the last 

 rays yellowish ; caudal peduncle yellow posteriorly, the fin simi- 



