1Q2 PHILIPPINE POMACENTKIDJE 



were collected by E. H. Taylor at the southern coast of Cotabato 

 Province. 



Contrary to the account of Evermann and Seale, the specimens 

 in the Bureau of Science collection and the one in the museum 

 of Stanford University show very well two yellowish streaks 

 on the anterior portion of the head and the dull yellow color 

 on all the fins, thus removing any doubt as to their identity. All 

 the specimens agree with the figure and description of Quoy and 

 Gaimard. 



This species is known only from the Indo-Australasian Archi- 

 pelago and the Friendly Islands. 



CHRTSIPTERA ASSIMILIS (Gunther) 



PLATE 10, PIG. 1 



Glyphisodon assimilis GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 52; PETERS, 

 Mon. Konig. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1868) 271, var. 



Glyphisodon uniocellatus SLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 4 (1853) 119; 

 not of Quoy and Gaimard. 



Glyphidodontops uniocellatus SLEEKER, Atlas Ichth. 9 (1878) pi. 410, 

 fig. 6. 



Abudefduf sapphirus JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish- 

 eries 27 (1908) 264, fig. 10. 



Dorsal XIII, 11 to 13; anal II, 12 or 13; scales in lateral 

 series 26; with tubules 16 or 17; between lateral line and origin 

 of dorsal 3; between lateral line and vent 10. 



Body rather elongate, with dorsal and ventral profiles sim- 

 ilar; depth contained 2 to 2.3 in length; head 3.1 to 3.4; depth 

 of caudal peduncle 6.1 to 6.6. Interorbital space convex, its 

 width 3 to 3.6 in length of head; eye circular, contained 2.7 

 to 3.3; snout rather short, only 3.4 to 4 in head; maxillary 2.8 

 to 3.3, extending posteriorly beyond anterior margin of orbit. 

 Mouth oblique, jaws equal; teeth in a double series, with 

 rounded edges. Orbital ring very narrow, its width at posterior 

 end of maxillary scarcely half diameter of eye; opercle with 

 two flat spines behind. 



No scales on snout, orbitals, or preopercular limbs. Middle 

 dorsal spines higher than posterior ones. Rayed dorsal and 

 anal rounded; caudal slightly emarginate, with the lobes 

 rounded; pectoral terminating above vent; outer ray of anal 

 prolonged and extending to origin of anal. 



Color in alcohol varying from deep blue to yellowish brown, 

 with one or two black dots on each scale, which have faded in 

 some of the specimens; a blackish violet streak along middle 

 of nape and forehead; another one from origin of lateral line, 



