32 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRHXE 



Snout in front of nostrils, preorbital, and both inferior and 

 posterior edges of preopercle naked. Middle dorsal spines of 

 nearly uniform height, being as high as the last. Middle rays 

 of soft dorsal and anal fins produced into a point ; caudal deeply 

 forked, with the lobes pointed and falcate; both pectoral and 

 ventral extend to vent. 



Color in alcohol brownish olive, with silvery reflection; body 

 with five black transverse bands, which are as wide as the 

 interspaces between them; the first descending from the front 

 of spinous dorsal to axil of pectoral ; the second extending down- 

 ward from the fifth, sixth, and seventh spines to about the 

 middle of ventral fin; the third descending from the tenth, 

 eleventh, and twelfth spines to base of anal spines; the fourth 

 occupying the space between most of the base of rayed dorsal 

 and the posterior third of soft anal ; the fifth covering the middle 

 portion of tail. Head dusky, darker on snout, chin, and inter- 

 orbital space; vertical fins blackish excepting the edges of the 

 rayed portions, which are pale; caudal dusky at base and on 

 upper and lower margins, pale at tips of rays; ventral and 

 pectoral with a little dusky color, the latter fin with a large 

 black spot on upper half of its base. 



The above description is based upon sixty-five individuals, 17 

 to 125 millimeters in length, collected at the following places : 

 Santo Domingo de fiasco, Batan Island I 



Paoay, Ilocos Norte 1 



Nalvo, Luna, La Union 21 



Paraoir, Balaoan, La Union 3 



Iba, Zambales 1 



Monja Island, Corregidor (125 millimeters long, a ripe fe- 

 male, collected April, 1922) 1 

 Calapan, Mindoro 5 

 Legaspi, Albay 2 

 Despujols, Tablas 3 

 Sayan Island, Samar (106 and 121 millimeters long, both 



ripe females, collected February, 1925) 2 



Tagapula island, Samar 1 



Halsey Harbor, Culion 1 



Cabalian, Leyte (119 millimeters long, a ripe female, col- 

 lected December, 1922) 1 

 Dumaguete and Siaton, Oriental Negros 12 

 Siquijor 1 

 Balabac Q 

 Tawitawi and Bungau Islands, Sulu Archipelago 3 

 There are in the Bureau of Scienrp several examples, col- 

 lected at Wakanoura, Japan, and Codd Island, Amoy, which 

 agree in characters with the Philippine specimens. 



