76 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID^E 



The foregoing account was taken from eight examples, 87 to 

 122 millimeters long, coming from Bantayan Island; Samal 

 Island and Zamboanga, Mindanao; and Bato Bato, Tawitawi, 

 and Sitankai Islands, Sulu Archipelago. The two examples col- 

 lected at Zamboanga in March, 1923, are females nearly ready 

 to spawn. 



Eight fresh examples, 29 to 55 millimeters long, obtained at 

 a public market in Cebu, Cebu Province, are colored as follows : 

 The ground color of large specimens yellow, with a shade of 

 blackish violet on head and all the fins; the small examples 

 blackish violet in front and above, bright orange yellow below 

 and behind including the posterior dorsal rays, the caudal, and 

 the ventrals and having a blackish violet spot at base of pectoral, 

 and another at base of the last dorsal rays. Two pearl white 

 lines radiating from eye toward upper jaw, the first one uniting 

 with an opposite line at tip of snout and the other crossing pre- 

 orbital ; a third line of the same color present on orbital ring ; 

 one or more longitudinal series of pearl white spots on pre- 

 opercle, and some scattered ones on the rest of the head and 

 at base of vertical fins; each scale on lower half of sides with 

 a pearl white vertical streak. 



This species was first noted from the "Philippine Islands" by 

 Fowler, and from Cebu by Fowler and Bean as Abudefduf 

 melanopselion. Elsewhere it is found on the coasts of Singa- 

 pore, Japan, and New Guinea. 



Genus ABUDEFDUF Forskal 



Abudefduf FORSK!L, Descr. Anim. (1775) 59; sordidus. 

 Glyphisodon LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 4 (1803) 542; moncharra; 



also spelled Glyphidodon. 



Stegastes JENYNS, Voy. Beagle (1842) 63; imbricatus. 

 Euchistodus GILL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (1862) 145; declivi- 



frons. 

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



92; aureus. 



Body short and deep, compressed, with about 28 scales or less 

 in a longitudinal series. Lateral line interrupted before pos- 

 terior end of soft dorsal. Teeth in a single series, entire or 

 notched at tips. Gill rakers not very numerous, about 28 or 

 less being present on the first arch. A single dorsal fin with 

 12 or 13 spines. None of the opercles serrated, orbital ring 

 entire. 



