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through eye to snout, meeting that of the other side; and 

 a third one crossing preorbital and upper jaw. A hori- 

 zontal series of specks of similar color across cheek. A 

 round black spot, if present, occupies the base of the middle 

 dorsal rays. In some examples, the outer portion of caudal 

 and soft vertical fins is yellowish blue, and in others blackish. 



The above account is based upon forty-six examples, varying 

 from 16.5 to 46 millimeters in length. They were collected at 

 the following localities : Nalvo, Luna, La Union ; Calapan, Min- 

 doro; Apo Reef, off the coast of Mindoro; Bantayan Island; 

 Canigaran, Palawan; and Sibutu and Sitankai Islands, Sulu 

 Archipelago. A single specimen, 32 millimeters long, taken 

 at Canigaran in November, 1925, is a ripe female. 



This species has been previously recorded by Gunther from 

 one specimen marked "Philippine Islands," and by Jordan and 

 Richardson from six examples collected by R. C. McGregor at 

 Ticao Island, as Abudefduf sapphirus. 



Living specimens in the Bureau of Science aquarium are deep 

 sky blue, with two blackish violet streaks on each side of head 

 and a longitudinal band of the same color on top of head; the 

 fins lighter than the ground color. Vertical and caudal fins of 

 those having a black spot at base of some of the dorsal rays 

 edged with blackish; in some specimens all the fins uniformly 

 bluish, without blackish markings of any kind; in others the 

 vertical fins with blackish margins and the caudal uniformly 

 bluish or partially edged with blackish. 



Gunther observes that there is considerable variation in the 

 color pattern of the caudal fin, which is also exhibited in my 

 examples and, in view of this fact, I cannot accept Abudefduf 

 sapphirus as a distinct species. The dorsal spot in Chrysiptera 

 assimilis is more anterior than in Glyphisodon uniocellatus Quoy 

 and Gaimard. 



This species is found in the Indo-Australasian Archipelago to 

 the east of Borneo. 



CHRTSIPTERA TURCHESIUS (Jordan and Scale) 



Abudefduf turchesius JORDAN and SEAIJ:, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 

 26 (1907) 28, fig. 10; SNYDER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 42 (1912) 505. 



Dorsal XIII, 11 or 12; anal II, 13; scales in a lateral' series 

 25; with tubules 15 to 17; between lateral line and origin of 

 dorsal 3; between lateral line and vent 10. 



Body ovate-oblong, compressed, the depth 2.3 to 2.5 in length; 

 head 3 to 3.3 ; depth of caudal peduncle 6.3 to 6.6. Width of 



