UO PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID.E 



dark ocelli on the dorsal fin, show that the Abudefduf antjerius 

 and Abudefduf zonatus of Jordan and Seale are identical. The 

 original Chaetodon brownriggii Bennett is undoubtedly the 

 young of the present species. 



This widely distributed species is known to occur from the 

 Red Sea and the east coast of Africa throughout the Indo-Aus- 

 tralasian Archipelago to Polynesia. 



CHRYSIPTERA REX (Snyder) 



Abudefduf rex SNYDER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 36 (1909) 601, pi. 64, 

 fig. 3. 



Dorsal XIII, 13; anal II, 13; scales in lateral series 24; with 

 tubules 15 and 16 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 3 ; 

 between lateral line and vent 10. 



Body moderately elongate, dorsal and .ventral contours simi- 

 lar; depth 2.1 to 2.2 in length; head 3.1 to 3.2; depth of caudal 

 peduncle 6.2. Interorbital space convex, 3.3 to 3.9 in length of 

 head; snout 4; mouth slightly oblique, with the jaws equal; 

 maxillary, which is contained 3.4 to 3.8 in head, is equal to 

 diameter of eye and ends posteriorly a little behind anterior 

 edge of orbit ; teeth in a double series, compressed, with pointed 

 tips. Greatest width of preorbital less than half eye diameter. 



Head completely scaled excepting portion of snout in front of 

 nostrils. Dorsal spines increasing in height posteriorly, the last 

 one about as high as second anal spine. Soft vertical fins an- 

 gular ; caudal notched ; pectoral shorter than head ; ventral much 

 longer, its outer ray produced into a filament which extends to 

 base of anterior anal rays. 



Color in alcohol brownish, with a light dot at center of each 

 scale. A narrow bluish line from front of orbit to snout, and 

 appearing to unite with that on the other side; a short one 

 across preorbital; a row of bluish dots more or less connected, 

 directly below eye. Opercle and preopercle with some bluish 

 spots, and origin of lateral line with a small black dot; all the 

 fins yellowish white. 



Here described from two specimens, 31 and 38 millimeters 

 long, obtained at Sitankai Island, Sulu Archipelago. Contrary 

 to Snyder's diagnosis, this species has two rows of teeth. The 

 Philippine examples are identical with the Japanese represent- 

 atives that I examined at Stanford University. 



This species which has not been noted previously from the 

 Philippines, was originally described by Snyder from specimens 



