POMACENTRUS 47 



rior portion of dorsal and anal yellowish ; caudal with a distinct 

 dark violet stripe on each lobe, the middle rays yellowish. 



Here described from eighteen specimens, 29.5 to 67 milli- 

 meters long, from Buguey, Cagayan Province; Guinobatan, 

 Masbate ; Culion Island ; Tacloban, Leyte ; Bantayan Island ; Ma- 

 lampaya Sound and Puerto Princesa, Palawan; and Tambagaan 

 and Bungau Islands, Sulu Archipelago. The species has been 

 previously recorded by Cartier from two specimens taken in 

 Ubay, Bohol ; by Bleeker and by Evermann and Seale from speci- 

 mens labeled "Philippine Islands." The lone specimen from 

 Bantayan is now in the museum of Stanford University. 



In the absence of scales on the vertical edge of preopercle 

 and of the yellow color on the posterior portion of the tail, 

 this species differs from Pomacentrus violascens Bleeker, which 

 it resembles closely. 



It is well distributed in the Indo-Australasian Archipelago. 

 Elsewhere it is known from Fate and -Tahiti. 



POMACENTRUS BIFASCIATUS Bleeker 



Pomacentrus bifasciatu* BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 6 (1854) 

 330; GiiNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 18; Fische der Sudsee 2 (1876) 

 226; DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 383. 



Dichistodus bifasciatus BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 

 (1877) 88; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 401, fig. 3. 



Dorsal XIII, 13; anal II, 13; scales in lateral series 25; with 

 tubules 16 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 4 ; between 

 lateral line and vent 10. 



Body oblong, 2 in length; head 3; depth of caudal peduncle 

 5.8. Interorbital space very slightly convex, its width 3 in 

 length of head, or equal to length of maxillary; diameter of 

 eye as long as snout, which is 3 in head. Jaws equal, the cleft 

 of the small mouth oblique, maxillary extending posteriorly to 

 below anterior edge of orbit; teeth biserial, compressed, with 

 slightly rounded tips. Preorbital above angle of mouth less 

 than half diameter of eye; edges of preorbital and suborbital 

 smooth; preopercle denticulated behind. 



No scales on snout, orbital ring, and vertical limb of pre- 

 opercle. Middle dorsal spines higher than posterior ones. Soft 

 portion of dorsal and anal slightly pointed; caudal a little 

 emarginate, with the lobes rounded ; tip of pectoral above anus, 

 ventral reaching origin of anal fin. 



Ground color yellowish brown, with two large black cross- 

 bands, one of which descends from front of spinous dorsal to 



