(J2 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID^E 



Color in alcohol dark brown, with a large white spot on the 

 back between lateral line and base of seventh and eighth dorsal 

 spines. A large black spot above operculum; a bluish trans- 

 verse streak on each scale; a white line on suborbital. Ventral 

 and anal blackish. 



The above account is based upon fifty-one examples, 33 to 125 

 millimeters in length, coming from the following localities: 

 Puerto Gal era, Mindoro; Canigaran, Palawan; Tagbilaran, 

 Bohol; Clarendon Bay, Balabac Island; Samal Island and 

 Zamboanga, Mindanao; and Sibutu and Sitankai Islands, Sulu 

 Archipelago. 



Previously known in the Philippines from an example col- 

 lected by A. B. Meyer in Cebu, and from another one recorded 

 from Cuyo by Jordan and Richardson as Pomacentrus pristigir. 

 According to the authors, the Cuyo specimen had the following 

 life colors : Body dull dark-green ; fins dark brown ; a line under 

 each eye and a spot in front of eye; some spots on top of head 

 of a rich violet color; opercles faintly washed with violet. 



This well-marked species is known only from the East Indies. 



POMACENTRUS NOTOPHTHALMUS Bleeker 



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

 137; Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerl. 1 (1856) 51; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 

 4 (1862) 20; JORDAN and SEALB, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 25 

 (1906) 280. 



Dichistodus notophthalmus BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet. 

 2 (1877) 82; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 401, fig. 4, and pi. 402, 

 fig. 4. 

 Pomacentrus suluensis SEALE, Philip. Journ. Sci. , A 4 (1909) 519. 



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 ovate, dorsal outline slightly deeper than ventral ; depth 

 of body 2 in length; head 2.9 to 3; depth of caudal peduncle 

 5.7 to 6. Interorbital convex, 3.3 to 3.7 in length of head, about 

 as wide as length of snout, which is contained 3.3 to 3.4 in head ; 

 eye round and fairly large, its diameter about as long as maxil- 

 lary, which is contained 3 to 3.1 in -head and ends posteriorly 

 below anterior edge of orbit. Mouth oblique, jaws equal, tip 

 of snout slightly pointed and on a level with inferior margin of 

 eye; two rows of compressed and slightly pointed teeth in each 

 jaw. Width of preorbital at angle of mouth almost equal to 

 half the orbit's diameter ; lower edge of orbital and vertical limb 



