POMACENTRUS 55 



The above description is that of an example, 83 millimeters 

 long, from Tanjay, Oriental Negros, and of a type, 59 milli- 

 meters long, collected at Limbones Cove at the entrance to 

 Manila Bay. 



POMACENTRUS DORSALIS Gill 



Pomacentrus dorsalis GILL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (1859) 147; 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 29; SNYDER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



42 (1912) 504. 

 Pomacentrus emarginatus CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. 



Poiss. 5 (1830) 316; LESSON, Voy. Coquille, Zool. (1830) 189; Atlas 



Poissons (1826) pi. 28, fig. 1. 

 Pomacentrus chrysurus CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 



5 (1830) 317; MEYER, Ann., Soc. Espana Hist. Nat. 14 (1885) 34. 

 Pomacentrus trilineatus BLEEKER, Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 406, fig. 2. 

 Pomacentrus delurus JORDAN and SEALE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 28 



(1905) 783. 



Dorsal XIII, 14 or 15; anal II, 14 or 15; scales in lateral 

 series 25 ; with tubules 17 or 18 ; between lateral line and origin 

 of dorsal 3 or 4 ; between lateral line and vent 9 or 10. 



Body ovate, dorsal profile of head slightly more arched than 

 ventral; depth of body 2 in length; head 2.8 to 3.1; depth of 

 caudal peduncle 6.3 to 6.7. Interorbital space evenly convex, 

 3.3 to 4 in length of head; snout short, 3.4 to 3.7, and shorter 

 than either maxillary or diameter of eye, its tip on a level with 

 lower margin of orbit; eye 2.6 to 3.5 in head; maxillary 2.9 

 to 3.5. Mouth small, jaws even, the posterior end of maxillary 

 under or a little before front edge of eye ; teeth biserial in each 

 jaw. Orbital ring with the anterior denticulation enlarged and 

 followed by a notch, its width at hind end of maxillary less than 

 diameter of pupil ; preopercle distinctly serrated. 



A very narrow naked area near tip of snout ; orbital ring and 

 vertical limb of preopercle also naked. Dorsal spines increasing 

 in height toward the last. Soft vertical fins slightly rounded; 

 caudal emarginate; tip of pectoral a little before vent, ventrals 

 extending beyond it. 



Ground color varying from dusky green to yellowish brown 

 in alcohol, with obscure light spots. In the young there is a 

 large, blue-edged, black ocellus along the middle of the fourth 

 to the eleventh dorsal ray A distinct black spot at origin of 

 lateral line but none on top of caudal peduncle. The small dark 

 spot at base of pectoral has faded in many of the specimens. 

 There is a short bluish streak in front of eye, and a longer one 

 immediately below orbit. Anal and ventrals blackish; dorsal 



