gg PHILIPPINE POMACENTRIDjE 



Soft dorsal and anal rounded, and of about the same height; 

 pectoral not reaching vent; caudal slightly emarginate. 



Uniformly blackish brown in alcohol, with very light greenish 

 reflections. 



Here described from thirteen specimens, 68 to 147 millimeters 

 in length. They were collected at Sialat Point, Catanduanes 

 Island; Puerto Galera and Calapan, Mindoro; Surigao, Samal 

 Island, and Zamboanga, Mindanao; and Tambagaan, Bungau, 

 and Sibutu Islands, Sulu Archipelago. In the Bureau of Science 

 aquarjum are eight living examples, which are deep rich violet 

 throughout with no mark of any kind on the body. 



This species, which is now recorded for the first time from 

 the Philippines, ranges from the Red Sea through the East 

 Indies to the New Hebrides. 



CHRYSIPTERA XANTHURA (Sleeker) 



Glyphisodon xanthurua SLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 5 (1853) 345; 



GUNTHEB, Cat. Pishes 4 (1862) 47. 

 Paraglyphidodon xanthurus BLEEKER, Nat. Verb. Holl. Maats. Wet. 



2 (1877) 122; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 405, fig. 3. 

 Abudefduf xanthurus EVERMANN and SEALS, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 



26 (1907) 92. 



Dorsal XIII, 14; anal II, 13; scales in lateral series 25; with 

 tubules 17; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 4; between 

 lateral line and vent 10. 



Upper and lower outlines of head nearly straight and almost 

 at right angles with each other; body deep and oblong, 1.9 in 

 length; head 3.5; depth of caudal peduncle 6.3. Interorbital 

 space broad, strongly convex, and 2.6 in length of head; snout 

 rounded, as long as eye diameter, which is 3.5 in head. Jaws 

 even, cleft of mouth slightly oblique; maxillary, which is a 

 trifle shorter than snout, extends posteriorly a little before 

 anterior margin of orbit; two rows of bluntish teeth present. 



Head with scales everywhere except on symphysis of lower 

 jaw. Posterior dorsal spines highest. Middle rays of soft 

 dorsal and anal forming acute angles; caudal emarginate; pec- 

 toral as long as ventral, longest above and extending to above 

 anus. 



Brownish orange in alcohol, with a blackish violet edge on 

 spinous dorsal and on anterior portion of soft vertical fins. 

 Pectoral with a brown axillary spot superiorly. A bluish line 

 extending from tip of snout to front of orbit; two dark vertical 

 bands on each side of head, one below orbit and the other im- 

 mediately behind preopercle. 



