CHRYSIPTERA 101 



dusky ; three oblique bluish white streaks on each side of head ; 

 each scale on head with a bluish white spot; scales on body 

 with bluish white vertical streaks and edged with blackish; a 

 dusky spot at base and axil of pectoral. 



The above description is of three specimens, 29 to 36 milli- 

 meters in length, collected by Albert W. Herre at Tawitawi 

 and Bungau Islands, Sulu Archipelago. 



This species has been recorded from the "Philippine Islands" 

 by Fowler. 



CHRYSIPTERA CYANEA (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Glyphisodon cyaneus QUOY and GAIMARD, Voy. Uranie, Zool. 2 (1824) 



392, pi. 64, fig. 3. 

 Glyphidodontops cyaneus BLEEKER, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maats. Wet. 2 



(1877) 130; Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 409, fig. 2. 

 Abudefduf cyaneus EVERMANN and SEAUB, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 



26 (1907) 92. 

 Glyphisodon azureus CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 5 



(1830) 369; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 53. 



Dorsal XIII, 12 or 13; anal II, 12; scales in lateral series 25; 

 with tubules 17 or 18 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 

 8 ; between lateral line and vent 9. 



Body ovate-oblong, the profiles equally elevated, depth of 

 body 2.2 to 2.3 in length ; head 3.1 to 3.2 ; depth of caudal pedun- 

 cle 6.5 to 6.8. Interorbital space strongly arched, 3.1 to 3.8 

 in length of head; eye round and fairly large, diameter 2.8 

 to 3.3, longer than snout which is contained 3.3 to 3.7 in head ; 

 maxillary long, 2.8 to 3 in head, extending posteriorly consid- 

 erably behind vertical through anterior margin of orbit. Mouth 

 slightly oblique, lower jaw a little included; teeth biserial in 

 each jaw, with blunt tips. Width of preorbital at posterior 

 end of maxillary about one-third diameter of eye; opercle with 

 two flat spines at its hind edge. 



Scales on top of head stopping at front rim of orbit; none 

 on orbital ring or on edges of preopercle ; a low sheath of scales 

 at base of vertical fins. Middle dorsal spines highest. Soft 

 dorsal and anal almost angular; pectoral shorter than anal and 

 almost reaching vent. 



Color in spirits brownish violet; the bluish color apparently 

 has faded out; two short lines on head, one in front of eye 

 meeting the other line on the opposite side at tip of snout, and 

 the other across preorbital; all the fins yellowish. 



Described from two examples, 32 and 34 millimeters long, 

 which have been recorded from Bacon, Sorsogon, by Evermann 

 and Seale, and from four others, 42 to 54 millimeters long, which 



