CHRYSIPTERA HI 



collected at Naha, Okinawa Islands, where it is well represented 

 in the tide pools. 



CHRYSIPTERA GLAUCA (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



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

 (1830) 353; JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 25 (1906) 

 286; EVERMANN and SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 26 (1907) 

 93; JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 27 (1908) 

 264. 



Dorsal XIII, 14; anal II, 15; scales in lateral series 25; with 

 tubules 18 ; between lateral line and origin of dorsal 4 ; between 

 lateral line and vent 9. 



Body ovate-oblong, dorsal outline a low even curve from snout 

 to caudal peduncle, ventral outline similar to dorsal; depth of 

 body 2.1 in length ; head 3.3 ; depth of caudal peduncle 6.5. Inter- 

 orbital space strongly arched, its width 2.8 in length of head and 

 nearly equal to the diameter of the large round eye, which is con- 

 tained 2.6 in head; snout rounded and rather short, 4 in head, 

 its tip above lower edge of orbit ; maxillary slightly longer than 

 snout and contained 3.2 in head, its posterior end on a ver- 

 tical line with front margin of eye. Cleft of mouth very oblique ; 

 jaws even, teeth conical, in two rows in each jaw. Width of pre- 

 orbital at posterior -end of maxillary about a third of orbit's 

 diameter; opercle with a blunt, flat spine behind. 



Head completely scaled; base of the rayed dorsal and anal 

 with a low sheath of small scales. Middle dorsal spines higher 

 than posterior ones. Soft dorsal and anal pointed and equal 

 in height; caudal emarginate; pectoral and ventral fins nearly 

 equal in length and both extending to vent. 



Uniformly grayish brown in alcohol, with no spots or bands 

 anywhere on head and body ; all the fins yellowish. 



One specimen that I examined in the Bureau of Science collec- 

 tion is 39.5 millimeters in length and was collected by C. J. 

 Pierson at Bacon, Sorsogon, as recorded by Evermann and Scale. 

 Three specimens have also been reported from Cagayancillo, 

 Cagayan Islands, and from Ticao Island by Jordan and 

 Richardson. 



This species was originally described from Guam and is 

 known from the East Indies northward to the Okinawa Islands. 

 It has been recorded also from Samoa. 



