FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 805 



breadth of 2 scales ; ventral i, 7 or i, 8, falls short of reaching anus ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2% in head. 



Color in alcohol dusky above, becoming whitish yellow beneath. 

 Broad blackish stripe from opercular angle to middle of caudal 

 base and blackish transverse band midway between first dorsal and 

 nape, connecting 2 lateral stripes. Anal and ventrals yellowish, other 

 fins more or less dusky. 



Length, 82 mm. (Herre.) 



Philippines. 



PUNTIUS KATOLO (Herre) 



Barbodes katolo Hekee, Proc. Pan Pacific Sci. Congr., Australia, vol. 2, 1923, p. 

 1569, 1924 [type locality: Lake Lanao, Mindanao (no description)]; Phil- 

 ippine Joum. Sci., vol. 24, p. 301 (Dansalan, Lake Lanao) ; p. 706, 1924 

 (reference) ; Fishes Herre Philippine Exped. 1931, p. 21, 1934 (Lake 

 Lanao). — Roxas and Mabtin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 42, 

 1937 (reference). 



Def>th Si^ to 3% ; head 2% , thick, clumsy, very long. Snout 3 in 

 head, long, broad, blunt; eye 4I/2 to 5, li/o in snout; mouth rather 

 large, terminal, oblique, lower jaw included; upper lip protractile, 

 moderately thick and lower thicker, with lateral flaplike extensions 

 below; barbels rather weak, short, rostral I/2 to % of eye and not 

 reaching eye, maxillary reaches pupil and % of eye; interorbital 

 greater than eye, not long as snout. 



Scales 26 in lateral line; 5 above, 3 below, 11 predorsal, 11 around 

 caudal peduncle. 



D. IV, 8, fourth spine medium, weakly serrate, 2 in head ; A. iii, 5, 

 height % of dorsal; caudal broadly and deeply notched, upper lobe 

 narrower and more pointed, little less than 3 in rest of body; pec- 

 toral I, 15, length 1% to l%o iii head; ventral 21/10 to 214. 



Yellowish brown, dorsal region slightly dusky, top of head brown. 

 Fins pale brown. Length, 110 mm. (Herre.) 



Lake Lanao, Mindanao. Said to resemble C ej)]idlkompsus pachy- 

 cheilus, but without continuous postlabial groove across chin, thinner 

 nonrugose lips, smaller barbels and longer paired fins. 



PUNTIUS MANALAK (Herre) 



Barbodes manalak Heere, Proc. Pan Pacific Sci. Congr., Australia, vol. 2, 1923, 

 p. 1569, 1924 [type locality: Lake Lanao, Mindanao (no description)]; 

 Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 302 (Dansalan, Lake Lanao), p. 706, 

 1924 (reference) ; Fishes Herre Philippine Exped. 1931, p. 2, 1934 (Lake 

 Lanao). — ^Roxas and Mahtin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila, Tech. Bull. 6, 

 p. 42, 1937 (reference). 



Depth 2%o to 31/3 ; head 29/io to 31/3. Snout 3 to 33/5 in head, wide, 

 without prominent protruberances ; eye 5 to 6, 1% to 2 in snout, 1% 

 to 2 in interorbital; mouth wide, oblique, subterminal; lower jaw 



