74 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRHXE 



3 to 3.7 in length of head; snout 3.5 to 3.7 in head, being 

 shorter than the diameter of the large round eye which is con- 

 tained 3.1. Mouth large, almost vertical; jaws subequal; max- 

 illary longer than width of interorbital or diameter of eye, its 

 posterior end below front margin of orbit; teeth compressed, 

 in a single series. Orbital ring entire, adnate to cheek; ver- 

 tical limb of preopercle, angle of opercle, and the contiguous 

 portion of subopercle serrated; opercle armed with two flat 

 spines behind. 



Scales on top of head extending to above anterior edge of 

 pupil, leaving a naked space from there to tip of snout; pre- 

 orbital and vertical edge of preopercle naked. Sixth and seventh 

 dorsal spines highest. Soft vertical fins pointed posteriorly; 

 caudal lobes produced, the upper one longer; pectoral as long 

 as ventral and ending before vent. 



Yellowish olive in alcohol, becoming lighter on the lower 

 surface; seven series of white spots across gill opening; an 

 unbroken line in front of eye, four more or less broken ones 

 below it. Base of pectoral with a blotch superiorly, pectoral 

 and ventral yellowish, the other fins dusky; dorsal and anal 

 with light lines and spots ; a row of light lines along the center 

 of the scales on the sides. 



Described from four specimens, 31 to 91 millimeters long, 

 from Bulan, Sorsogon, and from Olongapo, Zambales. The two 

 examples from Bulan are part of a number collected by C. J. 

 Pierson, as recorded by Evermann and Seale, and those taken 

 from the other locality in May, 1907, are females in near-spawn- 

 ing condition. A third specimen from Olongapo is now in the 

 museum of Stanford University. 



This species has been reported also from the Philippines by 

 Max Weber, who obtained an example with a dredge in 13 

 meters of water at Tonquil Island, Sulu Archipelago. By the 

 same method he collected on the Borneo Bank another specimen. 

 No other record of the species has been reported elsewhere in 

 the East Indies. 



This species, distinct in having the angle of the opercle and 

 the contiguous portion of the subopercle serrated, was originally 

 described by Day from Madras, India. 



Genus HEMIGLYPHIDODON Bleeker 



Hemiglyphidodon BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 



91; plagiometopon. 

 Ctenoglyphidodon FOWLER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 70 (1918) 



59; melanopselion. 



