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Depth 3V2 in total length; head 41/2. Snout obtuse, without 

 pores; eye 3i/^ in head, 1 in snout, I14 in interorbital ; lips thick; 

 4 barbels, maxillary pair longer. 



Scales 26 in lateral line ; 5 above, 3 below. 



D. 11, third spine bony, smooth, nearly long as head without 

 snout; A. 7; caudal forked; ventrals little nearer pectoral origin 

 than anal. 



Brown on back. Along lateral line 4 large black spots uniting 

 in an obscure band. Length, 90 mm. (Sauvage.) 



Simulao River, central Mindanao. 



PUNTIUS CLEMENSI (Herre) 



Barlodes clemensi IIekre, Proc. Pan Pacific Sci. Congr., Australia, vol. 2, 1923, 

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

 Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 24, p. 293 (Dansalan; Lake Lanao), p. 706, 

 1924 (reference) ; Fishes Herre Philippine Exped. 1931, p. 21, 1934 (Lake 

 Lanao). — Roxas and Mabtin, Dept. Agr. Comra. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 41, 

 1937 (reference). 



Depth 3 to 3%; head 31/10 to 3%. Snout 3V5 to 4 in head, broad, 

 with prominent median protuberance; eye 61/10 in head, 1% to 1% 

 in snout, II/2 to 21/10 in interorbital; mouth terminal, moderate, 

 slightly oblique; lower jaw short, usually included, comparatively 

 narrow ; rostral barbels equal or slightly longer than eye, maxillary 

 little longer; interorbital gently rounded or nearly flat. Pharyn- 

 geal teeth 2, 3, 5-5, 3, 2. 



Scales 22 to 34 in lateral line ; 5 above, 3 below, predorsal 8 or 9, 

 11 around caudal peduncle. Lateral line rather faint, descends 

 abruptly till opposite dorsal origin then nearly straight and median 

 along tail. 



D. IV, 8, fourth spine stout, feebly serrated along upper half of 

 bony portion, spine 1% to 1% in head; A. iii, 5; caudal deeply 

 forked, with pointed lobes, 4^ to % of head; pectoral I, 15, length 

 1% ; ventral I, 7. 



Dark green above when fresh, merging to yellow beneath, with 

 golden or brassy luster on sides and belly. Fins colorless or red- 

 dish. Length, 188 mm. (Herre.) 



Lake Lanao, Mindanao. 



PUNTIUS CATARACTAE (Fowler) 



Figure 24 



Barbus cataractae Fowlek, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 280, 

 fig. 40, 1934 (type locality: Cascade River, Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao). — 

 RoxAs and Martin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 40, 1937 

 (reference). 



Depth 2% to 3; head 31/3 to S%, width 1% to 1%. Snout 31/8 

 to 3% in head ; eye 3 to 3%) greater than snout in young to 1% in 



