CHRYSIPTERA 97 



In the Bureau of Science collection is a single specimen, 72 

 millimeters long, which is described above. It is one of the 

 eleven examples obtained at Bacon, Sorsogon, as reported by 

 Evermann and Scale. 



Outside of the Philippines, it is known from the coasts of 

 Flores, Sangir, Amboina, and Ceram, 



CHRYSIPTERA XANTHONOTA (Sleeker) 



Glypkisodon xanthonotus SLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 18 (1859) 



357; GtiNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 48. 

 Paraglyphidodon xanthonotus BLEEKER, Nat Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet. 



2 (1877) 126; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 404, fig. 3. 



Dorsal XIII, 13; anal II, 13; scales in lateral series 24; with 

 tubules 15; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 4; between 

 lateral line and vent 11. 



Body oblong, slightly elevated; profiles similar, equal in depth; 

 depth of body 1.7 to 1.8 in length ; head 2.9 to 3.2 ; depth of cau- 

 dal peduncle 5.5 to 6. The slightly convex interorbital 3 to 3.2 

 in length of head ; the large eye 2.6 to 2.7, high up on head ; snout 

 3.5 to 3.8 ; maxillary 3.3 to 3.5, its posterior end below anterior 

 margin of orbit. Mouth slightly oblique, jaws even; teeth very 

 narrow and pointed, in two series. Suborbital ring less than 

 half an eye diameter at its greatest width; opercle ending 

 behind in a large flat spine. 



Head and body covered everywhere with scales; base of 

 dorsal and anal fins with a moderately high sheath of scales. 

 Dorsal spines becoming higher toward the last. Soft vertical 

 fins produced along the middle into a point; caudal emarginate, 

 pectoral pointed superiorly, its tip above origin of^anal; ventral 

 extending to base of second anal spine, its outer ray filamentous. 



In life the lower three-fourths of body, the posterior dorsal 

 rays, and caudal are dark violet; upper part of head, back, 

 and dorsal fin clear yellow; caudal fin has a yellow stripe on 

 its upper and lower margins ; the ventrals have a blackish violet 

 spot between first and second rays ; the anal has a large blackish 

 violet blotch on outer portion of its anterior rays, the remaining 

 portion varying from pale violet to clear yellow posteriorly. 



Violet yellow in alcohol ; anal blackish anteriorly, ventral simi- 

 larly colored, with the tip whitish; upper and lower margins 

 of caudal paler. 



This species is easily identified by its deep body, and by the 

 persistent deep blackish violet color on the ventral and anal 

 fins. Known for the first time in the Philippines, from two 



