gg PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID^EJ 



specimens, 30 and 48 millimeters long, obtained in Surigao 

 and Zamboanga, Mindanao. Elsewhere reported only from 

 Bawean Island, off the north coast of Java. 



CHRYSIPTERA OXYODON (Bleeker) 



Glyphisodon oxyodon BLEEKER, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerl. 3 (1858) 



14; GiiNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 44. 

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



(1877) 127; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 404, fig. 2. 



Dorsal XIII, 13 ; anal II, 13 ; scales in lateral series 25 or 26 ; 

 with tubules 16 or 17 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 

 4; between lateral line and vent 10. 



Body oblong and deep, 1.9 to 2 in length, with dorsal and 

 ventral outlines equally elevated; head 2.8 to 3.1 in length 

 of body; depth of caudal peduncle 5.7 to 5.9. Interorbital 

 space a little arched, contained 3 to 3.4 in length of head, or 

 as wide as the diameter of the large, round eye or the length 

 of maxillary; snout 3.4 in head, its tip slightly pointed and 

 on a level with inferior margin of orbit. Teeth in two series, 

 those on upper jaw slender, compressed, and pointed, some of 

 those on lower lobate. Greatest width of preorbital half dia- 

 meter of eye ; opercle ending in a flat spine. 



Scales entirely covering head, except from nostrils to tip 

 of snout, orbitals, and limbs of preopercle; a moderately high 

 basal sheath of scales on vertical fins. Dorsal spines evenly 

 graduated toward the last, which is the highest. Soft dorsal and 

 anal rounded and produced along the middle; caudal slightly 

 emarginate, with the lobes rounded ; pectoral terminating before 

 vent; outer ray of ventral produced into a filament, which 

 reaches origin of anal fin. 



Color in alcohol brownish violet, with four bluish white ob- 

 lique bands: The first from below origin of spinous dorsal 

 to and around tip of snout; second from origin of soft dorsal 

 to below lateral line; third from top of tail ending below base 

 of dorsal rays; fourth running backward across opercles from 

 chin. A fifth vertical band, pearl white in color, around body 

 through belly and dorsal spines, appearing as a dull whitish 

 blotch scarcely noticeable in some specimens; a brownish spot 

 superiorly at base of pectoral. 



The four specimens above described were taken at Sitankai 

 Island, Sulu Archipelago. They range from 31 to 75 millimeters 

 in length. This species is very striking on account of the 

 arrangement of its bands and because of the nature of its 



