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strong, broad, rounded, prominent, more or less projecting; upper 

 lip moderately protractile; rostral and maxillary barbels short, 

 length from I/2 to 1 eye diameter; interorbital broad, gently curved 

 from side to side or flat. Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5 - 5, 3, 2, all more 

 or less hooked at tips, with age sometimes worn as truncate cylinders. 



Scales 24 to 26 in lateral line; 6 above, 4 below, 11 predorsal, 13 

 around caudal peduncle. Lateral line conspicuous, gently curved to- 

 ward belly in forward half. 



D. IV, 8, fourth spine smooth or nearly so and comparatively 

 slender, 1% to 2 in head ; A. in, 6, truncate, height equals or l^ less 

 dorsal height; caudal % to %o of head, deeply forked, lobes pointed; 

 pectoral i, 15, length 1% to II/2 ; ventral i, 7 or 8, length 2 to 21/10. 



FIGURE 27.—Puntius herrei (Fowler) : Type (U.S.N.M. No. 93138). 



Dorsal surface dark green, changing to pale or whitish on sides 

 and overcast with brassy or golden, especially on belly. Top of head 

 and snout blackish, with pearly epidermal spots and also on sub- 

 orbital and opercle. Length, 315 mm. (Herre.) 



Lake Lanao. 



PUNTIUS HERREI (Fowler) 



Figure 27 



Barius herrei Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 280, fig. 

 41, 1934 (type locality: Vicar market, Lake Lanao, Mindanao). — Roxas 

 and Maktin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 40, 1937 (reference). 



Depth 31/2 to 34^; head 33/5 to 334, width 2 to 2i/s. Snoult 33/5 

 to 41/10 in head; eye 34^ to 41/^, 1 to 1% in snout, li^ to 1% in inter- 

 orbital; maxillary largely concealed, reaches eye, length 3I/3 to 3% 

 in head; front barbel 21^ to 2% in eye, hind barbel 4% to 4:% in 

 head; lower jaw slightly included within upper; interorbital 3 to 3l^ 

 in head, convex; suborbitals cover half of cheek to preopercle ridge. 

 Gill rakers 3 + 12, short, lanceolate, 2% in gill filaments, which ll^ 

 in eye. Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5-5, 3, 2, slightly hooked, each with 

 slight grinding surfaces, both bones and teeth small. 



