100 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID.E 



Here described from six specimens, 19 to 35.5 millimeters long, 

 collected at Despujols, Tablas Island; Tacloban, Leyte; Port 

 Canoan, Siquijor Island ; and Zamboanguita, Oriental Negros. 



This species, not heretofore recorded from the Philippines, 

 is known to occur in the Indo-Australasian Archipelago and in 

 Polynesia, excluding Hawaii. 



CHRYSIPTERA PARASEMA (Fowler) 



PLATE 19, FIG. 1 



Abudefduf parasema FOWLER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 70 (1918) 

 56, fig. 22. 



Dorsal XIII, 11 ; anal II, 12 ; scales in lateral series 26 ; with 

 tubules 14 to 16; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 3; 

 between lateral line and vent 10. 



Body ellipsoid and well compressed, its depth 2 to 2.1 in 

 length; head 3 to 3.1, moderately large, with dorsal and ventral 

 profiles similar; depth of caudal peduncle 6.3 to 6.7. Inter- 

 orbital space convex, 3 to 3.2 in length of head; eye large, 

 rounded, its diameter 2.4 to 2.8, or longer than snout, which 

 is 3.3 to 3.4 in head ; mouth small, slightly oblique, jaws about 

 even; maxillary 3 to 3.4 in head, and reaching posteriorly to 

 below front edge of eye; tip of snout on a level with lower 

 margin of orbit; teeth in two series, those in front with trun- 

 cate edges, those behind small, slender, and with rounded or 

 slightly pointed tips. Preorbital slightly notched in front, its 

 width at posterior end of maxillary about one-third eye diameter ; 

 opercle armed behind with a flat spine. 



Scales on top of head extending to nostrils, leaving the space 

 from ther* to tip of snout naked ; both preorbital and suborbital 

 naked ; vertical limb of preopercle also unsealed. Middle dorsal 

 spines highest. Soft vertical fins rounded and nearly the same 

 height; caudal emarginate with the lobes slightly rounded, pec- 

 toral moderate, rather broad, reaching origin of anal fin ; ventral 

 extending to base of anal spines. 



Fresh specimens violet blue, contrasting with the bright lemon 

 yellow of the caudal peduncle and the anterior portion of fin; 

 caudal fin dusky outwardly ; the other fins dark brown, excepting 

 pectoral which is pale; each side of head with three oblique, 

 bluish white streaks and many spots ; scales of body with vertical 

 bluish white streaks and edged with dusky. 



Ground color in alcohol brownish violet; caudal peduncle 

 and anterior portion of fin yellowish; caudal fin dusky on its 

 outer half; vertical fins dusky brown; pectoral pale; ventrals 



