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803. Amphiprion tricolor Giinther. Palau Is.; New Guinea; East Indies. 



804. Amphiprion xanthurus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Samoa (Giinther); Ponape. 



805. Amphiprion chrysopterus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Kingsmill I. (Giinther); Bourbon I. 



806. Amphiprion bicinctus Riippell. Solomon Is.; Guam; East Indies. 



807. Amphiprion percula (Lacepede). Borabora; Yanicolo; New Guinea; New Ireland; New Brit- 



ain; Solomon Is. 



808. Amphiprion papuensis Macleay. New Guinea. 

 Amphiprion papuensis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. VV. 1883, 271. 



809. Amphiprion perideraion Bleeker. Palau Is. ; East Indies. 



810. Amphiprion bifasciatus (Bloch). New Guinea; East Indies. 



811. Amphiprion rosenberg-i Bleeker. New Guinea. 



POMACENTRUS Lacepede. 



812. Pomacentrus pavo (Bloch). Taupou. Samoa; Tahiti; Ponape; Bonham I.; Woodlark I.; 



New Britain (as Pomacentrus notalus De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1884 451)- East 

 Indies. (PI. xl, fig. 1.) 



This beautiful little fish is very abundant about the coral reefs of Samoa, and is the handsomest 

 of all blue fishes called taupou, or damsel. We have about 100 specimens. In the smaller examples 

 the back and sides are nearly uniform sky-blue. In the adult the blue becomes differentiated as 

 streaks and lines on each scale, the orange ground color nearly hidden by the blue markings. 



Pomacentrus nolatus De Vis seems to agree fully with Pomacentrus pavo. It is doubtless the same 

 species. 



Life colors were noted as follows in various specimens of P. pavo: 



(1) Specimen from Apia, called taupou. Brilliant sky-blue, grayer below and on caudal peduncle; 

 a dark steely edge on each scale; head profusely spotted with blue, the spots small and darker-edged; 

 a large black ocellus on opercular angle; dorsal blue, deep blue on distal half, the tips of first soft rays' 

 almost black, posterior rays mostly golden; caudal golden, pale blue mesially at base; anal pale blue, 

 distally pale olive; pectoral and ventral slightly yellowish. 



(2) From Apia. Deep violet-blue, clear, the dorsal, anal and caudal, with caudal peduncle, 

 shading into bright golden; base of dorsal and anal deep blue; a small opercular spot, none on body 

 or axil; pectoral pale yellowish; ventral blackish. 



(3) From Pago Pago. Deepest violet-blue, intensely dark blue on back; head with many pale 

 sky-blue dots and curved lines; two from eye to mouth; a blue line around chin; caudal peduncle 

 and posterior part of soft dorsal and anal with whole caudal deep orange yellow; a deep black spot on 

 opercular angle; axil with a blue dot rather faint; no spot in axil of dorsal and anal; spinous dorsal 

 and front of soft dorsal deep blue, edged with sky-blue; ventral and pectoral pale bluish; anal and dorsal 

 pointed; caudal pointed with unequal lobes; breast blue, with dark streaks. 



(4) From Apia. Bright blue, with indigo markings on head; a black opercular spot with a white 

 one before it; spinous dorsal deep blue; soft dorsal golden; caudal pure yellow; anal pale yellow; no 

 fin spots; ventral blue; belly pale blue; pectoral colorless. 



(5) From Pago Pago. Vivid blue head,' shoulders and back, with numerous spots of light blue, 

 also violet; small black opercular spot; axil unspotted; first dorsal blue, with blackish edge; second 

 dorsal golden, black-edged; no black spot; caudal and caudal peduncle bright yellow; anal blue; 

 ventral dusky, pectoral bluish. 



813. Pomacentrus cyanomus Bleeker. New Guinea (Macleay). 



814. Pomacentrus prosopotsenia Bleeker. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



815. Pomacentrus tseniurus Bleeker. Tahiti and Fate (Seale); East Indies. 



816. Pomacentrus bifasciatus Bleeker. Boston I.; East Indies. 



