ABUDEFDUP 85 



The first Philippine record of this species is that of Peters 

 from the southern coast of Luzon. It has been reported also by 

 Fowler and Bean, from Cebu, Cebu. 



Living specimens in the Bureau of Science aquarium are 

 colored as follows: Ground color bluish, fading into yellowish 

 white below; fourth black crossband descending from middle 

 dorsal rays through middle portion of soft anal ; remaining por- 

 tion of rayed dorsal yellowish ; spinous dorsal edged with black ; 

 transverse band on caudal peduncle united with the black longi- 

 tudinal stripe on upper lobe of caudal fin; anal spines and 

 anterior rays blackish as is also top of head; base of pectoral 

 black. 



According to Cuvier and Valenciennes the true Abudefduf 

 coelestinus has a broad blackish band near the margin of each 

 lobe of the caudal fin. Gunther and Bleeker regard this as 

 identical with one that has the caudal plain. An examination 

 of the specimens at hand shows that some are females and some 

 males, proving that this particular color pattern is not a sex 

 character. A comparison has been made with Abudefduf sazo- 

 tilis under which I place those with the caudal unstreaked, and 

 Abudefduf coelestinus seems to differ in having a less deep body, 

 in the presence of scales on all parts of the head, and in the 

 more posterior position of the last vertical band. 



Apparently common in the neighborhood of coral reefs in 

 the Philippines. Elsewhere it occurs from the Red Sea east- 

 ward to Polynesia, 



ABUDEFDUF CURASAO (Bloch) 



PLATE 17, FIG. 1 



Chaetodon Curasao BLOCH, Ichth. 5 (1787) 106, pi. 212, fig. I. 

 Abudefduf curayao EVERMANN and SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. fisheries 



26 (1907) 93; FOWLER and BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 62 (1922) 



48. 

 Glyphisodon curassao CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 5 



(1830) 352. 

 Glyphisodon trifasciatus BLEEKER, Verb. Bat. Gen. 21 (1847) 19; 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 42; Fische der Siidsee 2 (1876) 



231; BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 105; Atlas 



Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 410, fig. 3. 

 Glyphisodon smaragdinus BREVOORT, Exped. Japan (1856) 264, pL 



6, fig. 3. 



Dorsal XIII, 11 to 13; anal II, 12 to 14; scales in lateral series 

 25; with tubules 16 or 17; between lateral line and origin of 

 dorsal 3; between lateral line and vent 10. 



