g4 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRiaE 



to 3.6. Mouth rather small, strongly oblique, jaws equal; tip 

 of snout on a level with lower margin of orbit; maxillary ex- 

 tending posteriorly at anterior edge of eye or slightly before it; 

 teeth in a single row, compressed and rather blunt. Gill rakers 

 8 or 9 + 17 on first arch. Orbital ring very narrow, its width at 

 angle of mouth less than half diameter of orbit; opercle with 

 a flat spine at its hind margin. 



Head and body completely scaly. Fifth, sixth, seventh, 

 and thirteenth dorsal- spines highest. Rayed dorsal and anal 

 similar, produced along median into a point; caudal deeply 

 notched, lobes falcate and rather pointed ; pectoral ending above 

 vent; ventral fin extending to origin of anal fin. 



Brownish violet in alcohol; body crossed by five blackish 

 transverse bands, which are nearly as broad as the interspaces 

 between them; the first one from nape to base and partly to 

 axil of pectoral; second from base of fourth to seventh dorsal 

 spines to middle of ventral fin; third from base of last four 

 dorsal spines to origin of anal fin; fourth between middle of 

 soft dorsal and posterior portion of anal; fifth on hind part 

 of caudal peduncle. Head dusky, especially on interorbital 

 space, chin, and lips; spinous dorsal dusky; the soft vertical 

 fins similarly colored at base, the outer portion of rays 

 pale; caudal with a blackish streak on each lobe; pectoral and 

 ventral more or less dusky, the former fin with a large spot at 

 axil and another one at base. 



Here described from the following examples, varying from 

 14 to 120 millimeters in length: 



Nalvo, Luna, La Union 6 

 San Miguel Bay, Camarines Sur (a ripe male and 2 

 ripe females, 104 to 107 millimeters long, collected 



December, 1918) 4 



Calapan, Mindoro 1 



Masbate 4 



Halsey Harbor, Culion 2 



Bogo, Cebu 2 



Cabalian, Leyte 2 



Canigaran, Puerto Princesa, Palawan 4 

 Placer, Surigao (one, a ripe female, 105 millimeters in 



length, collected September, 1907) 2 



Cagayan de Misamis and Zamboanga, Mindanao 6 

 Tawitawi, Bungau, and Sibutu, Sulu Archipelago (29 

 to 177 millimeters long, one a ripe female, and the 



others' ripe males, all collected in August, 1924) 10 



There is also in the Bureau of Science collection a specimen 

 from Guam, measuring 29 millimeters long. 



