gg PHILIPPINE POMACENTRIIWE 



fin colored similarly as body; caudal yellow toward base, this 

 yellow area abruptly and sharply marked from the ground color. 



Twenty-five examples, 42.5 to 53.5 millimeters long, have been 

 examined, from Paraoir, Balaoan, La Union ; Puerto Galera and 

 Calapan, Mindoro ; Culion Island, Canigaran, and Balabac Island, 

 Palawan; Surigao, Mindanao; and Sibutu and Sitankai Islands, 

 Sulu Archipelago. Two specimens from Negros have been 

 described by Jordan and Scale as Pomacentrus delurus. 



This species is known elsewhere from Amboina, and the seas 

 of China and Japan. 



POMACENTRUS TRIPUNCTATUS Cuvler and Valenciennes 



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

 5 (1830) 315; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 33; JORDAN and 

 SNYDER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 24 (1902) 604; EVERMANN and 

 SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 26 (1907) 89; VAILLANT, Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 5 (1893) 57. 



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

 5 (1830) 316. 



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

 5 (1830) 318; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 32; EVERMANN and 

 SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 26 (1907) 89; JORDAN and RICH- 

 ARDSON, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 27 (1908) 263. 



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

 5 (1830) 321; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 25; BLEEKER, Nat. 

 Verb. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 61 (in part) ; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) 

 pi. 406, fig. 6; DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 382; JORDAN and SNYDER, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 23 (1901) 753; WEBER, Fische der Siboga 

 Exped. (1913) 337; AHL, Blatter der Aquarien- und Terrararien- 

 kunde 36 (1925) with one text figure. 



Pomacentrus biocellatus RUPPELL, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische (1835) 

 127, pi. 31, fig. 3. 



Pomacentrus katunko BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 3 (1862) 169. 



Pomacentrus punctatolineatus CARTIER, Verh. Phys. Med. Ges. Wiirz- 

 burg (1873) 98. 



Pomacentrus dimidiatus BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet 2 

 (1877) 63; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 406, fig. 8. 



Dorsal XIII, 13 to 15 ; anal 13 to 16 ; scales in lateral series 

 25; with tubules 15 to 19; between lateral line and origin of 

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



Body generally ovate, the form, however, varying with age; 

 depth contained 1.9 to 2.1 in length; head 2.9 to 3.4; depth 

 of caudal peduncle 6 to 6.9. Interorbital strongly convex, 

 slightly narrower than length of snout and contained from 3 

 to 4.2 in head; snout rather rounded in very large individuals 

 and slightly pointed in smaller ones, its length varying from 2.6 

 to 3.7 in length of head or slightly greater than diameter of 



