48 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID>E 



opercles, and the other covers posterior dorsal spines and fades 

 out below lateral line. Each side of head with traces of some 

 bluish lines; all the fins yellowish. 



Here described from a small specimen, 32 millimeters long, 

 taken at Culion Island. 



This is the first Philippine record of this species, which is 

 known to occur elsewhere from the Andamans throughout the 

 Indo-Australasian Archipelago to the Marshall Islands. 



POMACENTRUS PHILIPPINUS Evermann and Scale 



PLATE 3, FIG. 2 



Pomacentrus phUippinus EVERMANN and SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. 

 Fisheries 26 (1907) 91, fig. 18. 



Dorsal XIII, 13 or 14; anal II, 12 to 14; scales in lateral 

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

 of dorsal 3 or 4 ; between lateral line and vent 10. 



Body ovate, dorsal and ventral outlines similar and evenly 

 arched, depth 2 to 2.1 in length ; head 3.5 to 3.6 ; depth of caudal 

 peduncle 6.3 to 6.8. The width of the strongly arched interor- 

 bital 2.7 to 2.8 in length of head, slightly exceeding eye diameter, 

 which is 2.9 to 3 in head ; snout contained 3.3 to 4.3 in head ; 

 maxillary 3.2 to 3.3, ending posteriorly below anterior margin 

 of orbit or a little beyond it. Mouth oblique, jaws even, tip of 

 snout on a level with lower margin of eye; each jaw with a 

 series of very small teeth. Suborbital coarsely serrated, the 

 anterior denticulation appearing to be enlarged ; opercle with two 

 flat spines behind, the upper one of which is scarcely noticeable. 



Scales on top of head extending to tip of snout; orbitals and 

 rest of head scaly, both dorsal and anal fins having a high 

 sheath of scales at base. Dorsal spines increasing in height 

 posteriorly. Soft vertical fins slightly rounded; caudal emar- 

 ginate ; both pectoral and ventral fins extending to vent. 



Fresh specimens blackish violet, with a yellowish vertical 

 streak on each scale; caudal fin yellow toward base and poste- 

 rior rays of vertical fins similarly colored; a large black spot 

 at outer and inner base of pectoral, and a large yellow area 

 at axil. 



An old alcoholic specimen purplish brown, with a light ver- 

 tical streak on each scale; vertical fins blackish excepting the 

 posterior rays, which are abruptly yellowish; ventrals also 

 blackish, the rest of the fins dusky ; pectoral with a large black 

 spot entirely covering inner base, and a yellow area at axil. 



