CHRYSIPTERA 95 



a 2 . Body ovate-oblong, more or less elongate; snout naked. 

 e\ Suborbital naked. 



f 1 . Scales on top of head extending to above front rim of eye. 



g l . Middle dorsal spines shorter than or about as long as posterior 



ones C. uniocellata. 



g*. Middle dorsal spines longer than posterior ones. 

 h 1 . Head with some dark streaks in front. 



t\ Each scale of body with a dark vertical streak.... C. parasema. 

 f. Scales of body dotted, 



/. Each scale indistinctly dotted with white C. cyanea. 



j*. Each scale with one or two black dots C. assimilis. 



h*. Head without any dark lines in front C. turchesius. 



f. Scales on top of head extending to above nostrils. 



k l . Body with three yellow crossbands; dorsal fin without any ocelli. 



C. amabilis. 



/c*. Body with a single yellow crossband, present only in some in- 

 dividuals; dorsal fin with two dark ocelli in the young. 



C. brownriggii. 

 e*. Suborbital scaly. 



P. A small black spot at origin of lateral line C. rex. 



P. Body unmarked C. glauca. 



CHRYSIPTERA MELAS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



PLATE 19, FIG. 2 



Giyphisodon melas CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 5 



(1830) 353; ScHLEGEL and MULLER, Overz. Amphi. Verh. Nat. Ges. 



Ned. Overz. Bezitt. (1839) 23, pi. 5, fig. 2; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 



4 (1862) 45. 

 Paraglyphidodon melas BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 



(1877) 123; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 404, fig. 4. 

 Chrysiptera melas JORDAN and SNYDER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 24 



(1902) 605. 

 Giyphisodon ater CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 5 



(1830) 473. 

 Giyphisodon violascens BREVOORT, Exped. Japan (1856) 264. 



Dorsal XIII, 13 or 14; anal II, 12 or 13; scales in lateral 

 series 26 ; with tubules 16 or 17 ; between lateral line and origin 

 of dorsal 4; between lateral line and vent 11. 



Body oblong, rather deep, contained 1.8 to 2 in length; the 

 short head 3.1 to 3.5; caudal peduncle short, depth 5.8 to 6.4. 

 Interorbital strongly arched, 2.4 to 2.8 in length of head, slightly 

 bulging on top of head; eye small, circular, 3.2 to 4.3; snout 

 blunt, 2,8 to 3.1 in head or slightly longer than maxillary, which 

 is contained 3 to 3.4 in head. Teeth in two series, very narrow, 

 scarcely compressed. Width of preorbital at posterior end of 

 maxillary a trifle greater than half diameter of orbit. 



Head and body completely covered with large ctenoid scales. 

 Dorsal spines low, very strong, becoming higher posteriorly. 



