50 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRULE 



Almost uniform brownish yellow in alcohol, with whitish 

 spots on opercles and cheeks, two short bluish lines in front of 

 eyes, and an indistinct bluish stripe extending into anal rays 

 from each side of belly ; a black dot present above opercle, and 

 a smaller one superiorly at axil of pectoral. All the fins yel- 

 lowish; ventral, anal, and spinous dorsal tipped with dusky. 



Here described from eight examples, 16 to 69 millimeters 

 long, from Sialat Point, Catanduanes Island; Cebu, Cebu; and 

 Tambagaan, Sibutu, and Sitankai Islands, Sulu Archipelago. 

 The largest one, collected by Seale and Canonizado at Sitankai, 

 is the type specimen, No. 4737, now in the Bureau of Science 

 collection. 



Contrary to Scale's account, this species has two rows of 

 teeth. 



POMACENTRUS MOLUCCENSIS Bleeker 



Pomacentrus moluccensis BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 4 (1853) 



118; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 30; BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Holl. 



Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 56; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 402, fig. 3; 



EVERMANN and SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 26 (1907) 89; 



WEBER, Fische der Siboga Exped. (1913) 337. 

 Pomacentrus hebardi FOWLER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 70 (1918) 



46, fig. 18. 



Dorsal XIII, 14; anal II, 13; scales in lateral series 25; with 

 tubules 18 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 3 ; between 

 lateral line and vent 10. 



Body ovate, its depth 2.1 in length; head 2.9; depth of 

 caudal peduncle 6.7. The convex interorbital space 4 in head, 

 as wide as diameter of eye or length of snout. Mouth oblique ; 

 jaws equal ; the maxillary, which is shorter than eye, ends pos- 

 teriorly below anterior edge of orbit; teeth in each jaw in two 

 series, with the edges slightly rounded. Anteriormost tooth of 

 suborbital enlarged and followed by a notch; opercle with two 

 flat spines behind. 



Only the orbital ring and posterior limb of preopercle naked ; 

 scales on top of head extending almost to tip of snout. Hind 

 dorsal spines highest. Rayed dorsal more pointed than anal; 

 lobes of the emarginate caudal fin rounded ; pectoral and ventral 

 extending beyond anal opening. 



Yellowish brown in alcohol, with a light narrow vertical 

 streak on most of the scales ; a small brown spot above opercle 

 and another one superiorly at base of pectoral ; the light longi- 

 tudinal line on anal fin has undoubtedly faded out. 



Here described from a single specimen, 35 millimeters long, 

 from Bantayan Island. This species has been recorded formerly 



