POMACENTRUS 67 



Described from a single specimen, 66 millimeters long, from 

 Cabalian, Leyte, which is the first recorded from the Philippines. 

 In the arrangement of scales on the head, in the general form 

 of the body, and in color markings, this species is closely related 

 to Pomacentrus coelestis Jordan and Starks, of Japan. 



Known in the East Indies from Bali, Flores, Timor, Euro, and 

 Amboina. 



POMACENTRUS FASCIATUS Cuvier and Valenciennes 



PLATE 13, FIG. 2 



Pomacentrus fasciatus CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 5 

 (1830) 320, pi. 134; SCHLEGEL and MULLER, Overz. Amphi. Verb. 

 Nat. Ges. Ned. Overz. Bezitt. (1839) 20, pi. 4, fig. 1; GUNTHER, 

 Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 19; JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. U. S. Bur. 

 Fisheries 27 (1908) 263. 



Dichistodus fasciatus GILL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (1863) 214; 

 BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Roll. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 86; Atlas Ichth. 

 9 (1878) pi. 401, fig. 8. 



Dorsal XIII, 13 or 14; anal II, 13; scales in lateral series 26; 

 with tubules 17 to 19 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 

 4; between lateral line and vent 10. 



Upper and lower profiles of body similar, being regular 

 curves Irom tip of snout to tail; depth 2.1 to 2.2 in length; head 

 3.1 to 3.4; depth of caudal peduncle 5.6 to 6.4. Interorbital 

 space strongly arched, 3.1 to 3.4 in length of head ; eye circular, 

 rather small, its diameter 3.3 to 4.3, or shorter than the blunt, 

 rounded snout, which is 2.8 to 3.4 in head. Mouth small, 

 slightly oblique; maxillary 2.9 to 3.4 in head, its posterior end 

 a little before eyes; tip of snout lower than inferior margin of 

 orbit; teeth rounded, noncontiguous, in two series in each jaw. 

 Suborbital coarsely denticulated, the width of preorbital at end 

 of maxillary greater than two-thirds eye diameter; opercle 

 armed behind with two flat spines. 



Top of head scaly to front rim of orbit, leaving snout entirely 

 naked; orbitals and edges of preopercle also naked. Dorsal 

 spines increasing in height toward behind. Soft dorsal and anal 

 rounded, of nearly the same height; caudal very slightly emar- 

 ginate; pectoral ending before anus and ventrals extending to 

 origin of anal fin. 



Dark brown in alcohol, becoming lighter toward the lower 

 parts, with four yellow crossbands; one on the nuchal region, 

 the second from front part of dorsal fin to behind axil of 

 pectoral, the third across posterior dorsal spines, the fourth at 

 axil of soft dorsal. A black spot above operculum ; two parallel 



