792 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATEvS NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Depth 22/3 to 31/3 ; head 2% to 31/2, width I2/3 to I34. Snout 2% 

 to 3% in head; eye 2% to 4%, greater than snout in young to 2 in 

 snout with age, greater than interorbital in young to 2 in interorbital 

 with age; maxillary reaches opposite front eye edge, length 3 to 

 3l^ in head ; front barbel Si/o to 41/2 in head, often absent in young ; 

 mandible slightly included in upper jaw; hind barbel 2I/2 to 3%; 

 interorbital 2% to 3, broadly convex; suborbitals cover % to I/2 of 

 cheek. Gill rakers 2+9, short points, % of gill filaments, which 

 ll^ in eye. Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5-5, 3, 2, hooked, rather broad 

 grinding surfaces on some of larger ones. 



FiGDRB 21. — Puntius Mnotatus (Valenciennes) : Variation; specimens from Malbato River, 



Busuanga. 



Scales 22 or 23 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on 

 latter; 4 or 5 above, 3 below, 9 or 10 predorsal, 12 around caudal 

 peduncle. Scales with many as 57 radiating marginal striae, medi- 

 ally reticulated; circuli fine. 



D. IV, 8, 1, first 2 spines short, rudimentary, fourth with hind edges 

 for terminal half of osseous portion minutely serrated, first branched 

 ray li/^ to 1% in head ; A. iii, 6, i, first branched ray 1% to 1% ; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 1% to 2 ; pectoral 1^5 to 1% ; ventral 1% 

 to 11/2 ; caudal 3 to 3% in rest of body, deeply forked, lobes broad 

 and pointed. 



Generally brown above, under surfaces whitish. Edge of each 

 scale of back and sides darker brown than rest of body. Along mid- 

 dle of side usually 4 variable blackish blotches, usually as 1 behind 



