ABUDEFDUF 83 



This species has been previously recorded in the Philippines 

 by Jordan and Scale from Manila, and by Jordan and Richard- 

 son from the same locality and Calayan Island. 



Ground color of living specimens in the Bureau of Science 

 aquarium is lemon yellow, which is much brighter above; the 

 fourth transverse band is between the bases of the middle soft 

 dorsal and anal fins; top of head above eyes slightly blackish; 

 a black spot at base of pectoral; upper and lower margins of 

 caudal fin narrowly washed with blackish ; membranes of spinous 

 dorsal edged with blackish. 



This species is easily distinguished from Abudefduf coelestinus 

 (Cuvier and Valenciennes) by its deeper bddy; by the absence 

 of black stripes on the caudal ; by the naked area on the snout, 

 orbitals, and limbs of preopercle ; and by the more anterior posi- 

 tion of the fifth band on the tail. The examples at hand differ 

 from American individuals in the number and relative width of 

 the crossbands. It is probable that the original description of 

 this species by Linnaeus was based upon an East Indian spec- 

 imen, but the name has been applied to both the Asiatic and the 

 American representatives. 



It is apparently widely distributed in the Philippines, and is 

 known to inhabit the entire Indo-Pacific region from the Red 

 Sea and the east coast of Africa to the Austral and Hawaiian 

 Islands northward to China, Formosa, and Japan. 



ABUDEFDUF COELESTINUS (Curier and Valenciennes) 



PLATE 8, FIG. 1 



Glyphisodon coelestinus CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 



5 (1830) 347, pi. 135; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 38, var.; 



PETERS, Mon. Konig. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1868) 271; GUNTHER, 



Fische der Siidsee 2 (1876) 229, pi. 126, fig. B; BLEEKER, Nat. 



Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 101. 

 Abudefduf coelestinus JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 



25 (1906) 285; SNYDER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 42 (1912) 505; 



FOWLER and BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 62 (1922) 48. 



Dorsal XIII, 11 or 12; anal II, 12 or 13; scales in lateral 

 series 28 ; with tubules 20 or 21 ; between lateral line and origin 

 of dorsal 5; between lateral line and vent 12. 



Profiles evenly curved and equally elevated ; body rather deep, 

 1.8 to 2 in length; head 2.1 to 3.4; caudal peduncle short, depth 



5.6 to 6.2. Interorbital space strongly convex and rather broad, 



2.7 to 3.3 in length of head, or slightly broader than length of 

 maxillary, which is contained 2.9 to 3.4 in head; eye rounded, 

 3.1 to 3.9 in head; the short and rounded snout contained 3.1 



