FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 789 



PUNTIUS TUMBA (Herre) 

 FiGXXRE 19 



Barbodes tiimba Herre, Philippine Journ. Sci., voL 24, No. 3, p. 285 (type lo- 

 cality: Srivagat River; Lake Uyaan; Lake Nunuugan ; outlet of Lake 

 Dapao), p. 706, 1924 (Lauao Plateau, Mindanao) ; Fishes Herre Philippine 

 Exped. 1931, p. 22, 1934 (outlet to Lake Dapao; Dansalan).— Roxas and 

 Martin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 43, 1937 (reference). 



Depth 2% to 3%; head 31/3 to 31/2, width 1% to 2. Snout 31/3 to 

 3l^ in head; eye 33/5 to 4%, li/io to 1% in snout, I1/3 to 13^ in inter- 

 orbital ; maxillary reaches % to eye, length 3% to 31/2 in head ; lower 

 jaw slightly shorter than upper; front barbel 4 to 51/2 in head, hind 

 barbel 3% to 4^5; interorbital 2% to 3, broadly convex; suborbitals 

 cover y^ to % of cheek. Gill rakers 2 + 10, lanceolate, 214 in gill 

 filaments, which ne;irly equal eye. Pharyngeal teetli 2, 3, 5-5, 3, 2, 

 with small terminal hooks and grinding surfaces. 



Scales 23 or 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter ; 

 5 above, 3 below, 9 predorsal, 13 around caudal peduncle. Scales 

 with 6 or 7 basal and 9 or 10 apical radiating striae, latter imperfect ; 

 circuli finely concentric and imperfect apically. 



D. IV, 8, I, fourth spine osseous, enlarged, terminally hind mar- 

 gins with fine serrae, first branched ray ll^ to II/3 in head ; A. in, 5, 

 I, first branched ray 1% to 2 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 21/8 ; 

 pectoral 1% to 1% ; ventral ly^ to li/o ; caudal 2% to 31/8 in rest of 

 body. 



Back brownish, sides and lower surfaces whitish, with silvery 

 reflections. Iris silvery white. Barbels pale. Leaden or gray axial 

 line to caudal base medially where little expanded as grayish ill- 

 defined blotch. Fins all uniformly pale, dorsal and caudal little 

 grayish. 



Lanao Plateau, Mindanao. 

 42 examples. Vicar Landing, Lake Lanao. May 22, 1908. Length, 54-114 mm. 



PUNTIUS QUINQUEMACULATUS (Scale and Bean) 



Barbus qtdnquemaculatus Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, p. 229, 

 fig. 1, 1907 (type locality: Zamboanga). 



Barbodes quinqiiemaculatus Herre, Proc. Pan Pacific Sci. Congr., Australia, 

 vol. 2, 1923, p. 1569, 1924 (reference) ; Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 24, No. 

 3, p. 288 (near Zamboanga; Caldera Bay; Basilan) ; p. 706, 1924 (refer- 

 ence) ; Fishes Herre Philippine Exped. 1931, p. 21, 1934 (Zamboanga). — 

 Roxas and Martin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 42, 1937 ( refer- 

 ence). 



Barbiis maculatus (not Van Hasselt) GtJNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, 

 pt. 4, p. 53, 1880 (Pasamanca near Zamboanga). 



Depth 2% to 3 ; head 31/3 to 3%, width I2/3 to 1%. Snout 3 to 31/3 

 in head; eye 3 to 41/5, greater than snout in young to 1^2 with age, 



