gg PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID.E 



series of black specks along sides of body, originating from 

 opercle between lateral line and base of pectoral ; in some spec- 

 imens a third series also present just below lateral line; the 

 three series of spots absent in very young individuals. Pecto- 

 ral dusky at base and yellowish outward ; all the other fins dusky ; 

 most of the scales of body with a yellowish streak or spot. In 

 some specimens there is a light longitudinal line on anal fin. 



Described from twenty-three specimens, 21 to 111 millimeters 

 in length, collected at the following localities': Paoay and Curri- 

 mao, Ilocos Norte; Iba, Zambales; Polillo Island; Bantayan Is- 

 land; Canigaran, Palawan; Balabac, Balabac Island; Canigao 

 Island, Leyte; Zamboanga, Mindanao; and Tubigan, Jolo, Ta- 

 witawi, Bungau, Sibutu, and Saluag Islands, Sulu Archipelago. 

 The example from Saluag Island, 111 millimeters in length, is 

 a ripe female, collected in September, 1925. 



I have examined several specimens at Stanford University 

 Museum, from Bantayan, Canigao, and Bungau Islands. Giin- 

 ther listed an adult specimen from the "Philippine Islands;" 

 Jordan and Richardson reported two specimens from Ticao Is- 

 land; and Max Weber collected eleven from Sanguisiapo, Sulu 

 Archipelago. 



This fish, well marked by four yellow vertical bands on the 

 head and body and by two or three longitudinal series of black 

 spots on the sides, is evidently widespread in the Philippines. 

 It occurs elsewhere in the East Indies from the coast of Singa- 

 pore to the Moluccas. 



POMACENTRUS BREVICEPS (Bleeker) 



PLATE 13, FIG. 1 



Amblypomacentrus breviceps BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Wet. 



2 (1877) 69; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 404, fig. 7. 

 Glyphidodon breviceps GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 42. 



Dorsal XIII, 10 or 11; anal II, 11 or 12; scales in lateral 

 series 25 ; with tubules 15 to 17 ; between lateral line and origin 

 of dorsal 3; between lateral line and vent 9. 



Body oblong and elongate, deepest at base of first three dorsal 

 spines, being 2.2 to 2.6 in length; head 3 to 3.6; depth of caudal 

 peduncle 6.1 to 7. Interorbital narrow, slightly convex, 3.2 to 

 4.1 in length of head ; eye fairly large, circular, 2.6 to 3 ; snout 

 short and rounded, 3.5 to 4.9. Cleft of mo.yith almost vertical, 

 lower jaw slightly projecting, maxillary terminating posteriorly 

 behind anterior edge of eye and contained 2.8 to 3.4 in head; only 

 one row of truncate and closely set teeth in each jaw. Preorbital 



