104 PHILIPPINE POMACENTREkE 



the strongly arched interorbital 3.2 to 3.8 in head, or less than 

 length of eye diameter, which is 2.8 to 4.5 in head; snout 3.5 

 to 3.7 in length of head, its tip on a level with inferior margin 

 of orbit; maxillary 3.1 to 3.6, its posterior end below front mar- 

 gin of orbit. Mouth slightly oblique, jaws even; teeth in two 

 series, very closely appressed, their tips blunt. Preorbital at 

 angle of mouth as wide as a third of eye diameter ; opercle armed 

 behind with two flat spines. 



The space from front margin of eye to tip of snout unsealed ; 

 orbital ring and both inferior and vertical limbs of preopercle 

 also naked. Middle dorsal spines a trifle higher than posterior 

 ones. Rayed anal higher than soft anal, both fins rounded and 

 produced along the middle; caudal obliquely truncate, with the 

 upper lobe slightly longer ; pectoral scarcely reaching vent ; outer 

 ray of ventral produced into a filament, which touches base of 

 anal spines. 



Deep blue in alcohol, lighter on the lower parts, each scale 

 with a lighter margin; all the fins colored same as body, with 

 the outer portion somewhat lighter. 



I have examined in the Bureau of Science collection four 

 specimens, 36 to 45.5 millimeters long, taken at Calapan, Min- 

 doro. This species was originally described by Jordan and Seale 

 from Cavite, Cavite. 



Contrary to the diagnosis of the authors, this fish has two 

 rows of teeth. J. O. Snyder recorded a number of examples 

 from Okinawa Islands, where it is very common in the pools. 



CHRYSIPTERA AMABILIS (De Vis) 



PLATE 1, PIG. 2 



Glyphisodon amabilis DE Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (1883) 353. 

 Abudefduf amabilis JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 25 



(1906) 287, pi. 42, fig. 1; JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. U. S. Bur. 



Fisheries 27 (1908) 264. 

 Glyphisodon brovmriggii var. xanthozona GUNTHER, Fische der Siid- 



see 2 (1876) 234, pi. 127, fig. D; not Glyphisodon xanthozona of 



Bleeker. 



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

 with tubules 17 to 19 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 

 3; between lateral line and vent 8. 



Body ovate-oblong, its depth 2.4 to 2.5 in length; head 3.3 

 to 3.4, its profile convex above and slightly less beneath; depth 

 of caudal peduncle 6.3 to 6.5. Interorbital space convex, rather 

 narrow, 3.2 to 3.4 in head; diameter of eye 2.6 to 2.7, about 

 as long as maxillary, which ends posteriorly below front edge 



