POM ACEN THUS 45 



larly colored, with the upper and the lower edges partly or 

 entirely dusky. A bluish spot in axil of pectoral and another 

 one at origin of lateral line. 



I have examined five specimens in the Bureau of Science col- 

 lection, measuring 38 to 53.5 millimeters long, from Siaton, 

 Oriental Negros, and Cagayan de Misamis, Mindanao. I have 

 also examined an example from Siquijor, which is now in the 

 museum of Stanford University. There is an example, 58 milli- 

 meters long, from Hongkong in the Bureau of Science collection. 



This species is very close to Pomacentrus taeniurus, but is 

 easily distinguished by the yellow area on the tail, by the ill- 

 defined dusky band on each caudal lobe, and by the scaly edges 

 of the preopercle. It is apparently not very abundant in the 

 Philippines, and is common only in the Indo-Australasian Archi- 

 pelago from Sumatra to Ceram. 



POMACENTRUS BANKIERI (Richardson) 



Glyphisodon bankieri RICHARDSON, Ichth. China (1846) 253; GUN- 



THER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 54. 

 Parapomacentrus bankieri BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet. 



2 (1877) 67; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 408, fig. 8. 

 Abudefduf bankieri EVERMANN and SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 



26 (1907) 92. 



Dorsal XIII, 10 or 11; anal II, 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. 



Body oblong, rather elongate, depth 2.4 to 2.7 in length ; head 

 3.1 to 3.5; depth of caudal peduncle 6.1 to 6.7. Interorbital 

 space strongly convex, 3 to 3.2 in length of head; the large, 

 round eye 2.8 to 3.4 ; the short, rounded snout 3.5 to 4.3 ; maxil- 

 lary 2.6 to 3. Mouth almost vertical, lower jaw slightly in 

 advance of upper; a single series of distinctly notched teeth 

 on each jaw. Preorbital very narrow; vertical edge of pre- 

 opercle indistinctly serrated. 



Head and body completely scaled. Dorsal spines slender, in- 

 creasing in height toward behind. Soft dorsal and anal angular; 

 caudal deeply forked, the longest rays of each lobe filamentous ; 

 outer ray of ventral fin produced into a filament, which extends 

 to origin of anal fin. 



Brownish violet in alcohol; head, back, and caudal peduncle 

 with round bluish spots ; each scale on the lower parts of body 

 with a bluish vertical streak ; dorsal fin dusky to the second ray, 

 the remaining portion yellowish ; caudal yellowish, with the up- 

 per and lower rays partly dusky ; the other fins yellowish, a large 



