ABUDEFDUF 91 



Color in alcohol largely faded dull brownish generally, predorsal, head 

 above and front of back with traces of darker mottlings. Fins all pale 

 uniform brownish. Iris slaty. 



Length 41 mm. (caudal tip damaged). 



Type, No. 47,531, A. N. S. P. 



Philippine Islands. Presented by the Commercial Museums of Phila- 

 delphia. 



No. 47,532, paratype, same data. It shows: Head 21; depth It; D 

 XIII, 11; A. II, 12; tubes in upper arch of 1.1. 17 and pores in straight 

 portion 7; snout 31 in head; eye 2; maxillary 3; interorbital 21, length 

 36 mm. 



Apparently falls within the subgenus Amblyglyphidodon Bleeker, and 

 without much in common with the four East Indian species Bleeker de- 

 scribes. 



The above is Fowler's original description. 



ABUDEFDUF DICKII (Lienard) 



Glyphisodon dickii LIENARD, Dix. Rapp. Soc. Hist. Nat. Maurice 



(1839) 35; BLHEKER, Ned. Tijd. Dierk. 1 (1863) 274; GUNTHER, 



Fische der Siidsee 2 (1876) 232, pi. 125, fig. C; BLEEKER, Nat. 



Verh. Roll. Maats. Wet. 2 (1877) 115; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 



409, fig. 7. 

 Abudefduf dicki JORDAN and SEALS, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 25 



(1906) 285, pi. 41, fig. 2; JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. U. S. Bur. 



Fisheries 27 (1908) 263. 

 Glyphisodon unifasciatus KNER and STEINDACHNER, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. 



Wien (1867) 375. 



Dorsal XII, 17; anal II, 14; scales in lateral series 28; with 

 tubules 21 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 3 ; between 

 lateral line and vent 11. 



Dorsal profile deeper than ventral, upper outline of head 

 very steep; greatest depth of body 2 in length; length of head 

 3.2; depth of caudal peduncle 5.8. Interorbital space rather 

 wide, 2.8 in head ; eye rounded, its diameter as long as maxillary, 

 which is 3.7 in head; snout almost as long as width of inter- 

 orbital, 2.8 in head, with its tip lower than inferior margin 

 of orbit; teeth uniserial, with notched edges. Gill rakers about 

 23 on first arch. Greatest width of preorbital greater than half 

 diameter of eye. 



Head covered entirely with scales; base of vertical fins with 

 a rather high sheath of scales. Dorsal spines increasing in 

 height posteriorly; second anal spine equal in height to last 

 dorsal. Soft dorsal and rayed anal produced along the middle, 

 forming acute angles; caudal deeply forked, with the lobes 

 rounded; pectoral ending before vent; first ray of ventral pro- 

 longed into a filament, which terminates at base of anal spines. 



