POMACENTRUS 61 



long, are ripe females; the larger specimen was collected in 

 May, 1921, and the smaller one in September, 1925. 



Fowler's Pomacentrus burroughi is evidently this species, 

 which is separated from Pomacentrus tripunctatus Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes by the absence of the black spot on the caudal 

 peduncle. 



This species is found throughout the East Indies, and ranges 

 northward to the China Sea. 



POMACENTRUS CHRYSOPOECILUS Schlecel and Muller 



PLATE 11, FIG. 1 



Pomacentrus chrysopoecilus SCHLEGEL and MULLER, Overz. Amphi. 

 Verb. Nat. Ges. Ned. Overz. Bezitt. (1839) 21, pi. 5, fig. 3; SLEEKER, 

 Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 3 (1852) 284; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 

 20; MEYER, Ann., Soc. Espana Hist Nat. 14 (1885) 34*. 



Dichistodus chrysopoecilus BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Roll. Maats. Wet. 2 

 (1877) 84; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 406, fig. 9. 



Pomacentrus pristigir JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish- 

 eries 27 (1908) 263. 



Dorsal XIII, 13 to 15; anal II, 13 or 14; scales in lateral 

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

 of dorsal 4; between lateral line and vent 10. 



Body oblong, rather thick and elongate; dorsal profile deeper 

 than ventral, more arched anteriorly; greatest depth of body 

 2.1 to 2.3 in length; head short, 3.2 to 3.4; depth of caudal 

 penducle 5.6 to 6.2. Snout long, slightly pointed, 2.5 to 2.9 in 

 length of head, being longer than the width of the strongly 

 arched interorbital, which is equal to or greater than length of 

 maxillary; eye round, rather small, its diameter contained 3.6 

 to 4.5 in head, or shorter than maxillary. Mouth slightly 

 oblique, its angle well in front of eye; tip of snout well below 

 inferior margin of orbit; teeth compressed, slightly pointed, in 

 a single series. Width of preorbital at posterior end of maxil- 

 lary more than half diameter of eye; suborbital and preopercle 

 strongly and evenly serrated; opercle with a single flat spine 

 behind. 



Scales on top of head advancing to front edge of orbit, leaving 

 a naked space from there fo tip of snout; the rest of head and 

 body well covered with large ctenoid scales. Dorsal spines 

 growing consecutively higher to the last, which is as high as 

 second anal spine. Soft dorsal and anal rounded and about 

 equal in height; caudal very slightly emarginate, the lower lobe 

 shorter and more rounded than the upper; pectoral not quite 

 reaching vent ; ventral longer than pectoral, its tip at vent. 



