ABUDEFDUF 87 



It is known from the East Indies, and ranges eastward 

 through New Guinea to Shortland Island and northward to 

 the Riu Kiu Archipelago. 



ADUDEFDUF AUREUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



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



(1830) 353; SCHLBGEL and MULLER, Overs. Amphi. Verb. Nat. Ges. 



Ned. Overz. Bezitt. (1839) 22, pi. 5, fig. 1; CUVIER, Regne Anim. 



111. ^Poiss. (1840) pi. 33, fig. 1; BLEEKER, Labr. Cten. (1847) 21; 



GiiNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 45; BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Roll. 



Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 109; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 405, fig. 4. 

 Abudefduf aureus WEBER, Fische der Siboga Exped. (1913) 348. 



Dorsal XIII, 12; anal II, 14; scales in lateral series 24 to 26; 

 with tubules 15 to 18 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 

 4; between lateral line and vent 10 or 11. 



Body subcircular, strongly compressed, its depth contained 

 1.5 to 1.6 in length; head 2.9 to 3.2; depth of caudal peduncle 

 5.7 to 6.1. Interorbital strongly convex, rather broad, 2.6 to 2.9 

 in length of head ; eye large and circular, 2.5 to 3.2 ; snout short 

 and blunt, 3 to 3.3 ; maxillary 3 to 3.4. Teeth in a single series, 

 those in front small and scarcely emarginate. Gill rakers on 

 first arch 27. Preorbital with a distinct notch above maxillary, 

 its width at angle of mouth less than half an eye diameter. 



Scales extending forward to tip of snout, also covering orbital 

 ring and preopercular limbs. Middle dorsal spines lower than 

 the thirteenth. Soft portion of dorsal and anal fins produced 

 into a point; caudal forked, having pointed lobes; pectoral fin 

 reaching base of anal spines and ventral extending to base of 

 anterior anal rays. 



Uniformly yellowish brown in alcohol, without any blackish 

 marking anywhere except on outer edge of membranes of spinous 

 dorsal. 



Here described from eleven specimens, 62 to 108 millimeters 

 long, collected at Calapan, Mindoro; Gaspar Island, Marinduque; 

 Tablas Island; Tagapula Island, Samar; New Washington, 

 Capiz ; and Cabalian, Leyte. An example, 104 millimeters long, 

 obtained at Gaspar Island in March, 1925, and a slightly smaller 

 one, taken at Cabalian in May, 1921, are females about ready 

 to spawn. 



This species is new to the Philippines and is known elsewhere 

 in the Indo-Australasian Archipelago from Java, Celebes, Am- 

 boina, and Banda. 



