FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 797 



snout with age, 1 to 1% in interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye in 

 young, l^ in eye with age, length 2% to S^/g in head; front barbels 

 31/i to 3I/2, hind barbels 3 to 3%; lower jaw slightly included in up- 

 per ; interorbital 214 to 2% in head, broadly convex ; suborbitals cover 

 y^ of cheek to preopercle ridge. Gill rakers 2 + 8, short, lanceolate, 

 1/^ of gill filaments, which 1% in eye. Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5-5, 

 3, 2, with small terminal hooks, grinding surfaces rather small. 



Scales 22 to 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on 

 latter ; 5 above, 3 below, 7 or 8 predorsal, 12 around caudal peduncle. 

 Scales with 12 to 16 apical and 6 or 7 basal radiating striae ; circuli 

 finely concentric, imperfect apically, 



D. IV, 8, I, fourth spine slender, firm, with hind edges only very 

 feebly or slightly with minute weak serrae, first branched ray 1% to 



FiGUEB 24. — Puntius cataractae (Fowler) : Type (U.S.N.M. No. 93137). 



114 in head ; A. iii, 5, i, first branched ray 1% to 1% ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 1% to 1% ; pectoral ll^ to 1% ; ventral li^ to 1% ; 

 caudal 2% to 2% in rest of body, well forked, rather broad lobes 

 pointed. 



Back brown, lower sides and under surfaces whitish. Each scale 

 on upper surface of body margined with deep brown. Iris whitish. 

 Base of caudal with obscure gray or light neutral blotch, smaller 

 than eye. Dorsal, caudal, and pectoral pale brownish. Ventral and 

 anal with pale yellowish tint. 



Apparently related to Barbus clemensi Herre, its 8 predorsal scales 

 in agreement. It differs in that some examples show 2 or 3 very 

 indistinct or subdued dusky axial blotches, of which last most dis- 

 tinct and possibly due to or rendered visible by long preservation in 

 alcohol. In the type only the last blotch evident. Fins evidently 

 yellow, as still golden in color. 



