FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 799 



Depth 3 to 3%; head 24^ to 3. Snout elevated or with central 

 hump and 2 smaller lateral ones; eye 4^4 to 4i/^, li/s to V/s in snout; 

 mouth large, terminal, little oblique, lips thick, lower jaw included; 

 rostral barbels nearly reach eye or pupil, maxillary reach eye or 

 even to liind eye edge; interorbital 3l^ to 3% in head, equals snout. 



Scales 24 to 28 in lateral line; 5 above, 3 below, 9 predorsal, 11 

 around caudal peduncle. 



D. Ill, 8, third spine rather stout, feebly dentate, 2 in head ; A. iii, 

 5; pectoral i, 15, length l%o to 1% in head; ventral i, 7, length 2 

 to 21/4 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 11/2 to 1%. 



Very dark blackish brown. Bluish black in alcohol on snout and 

 top of head and blackish brown dorsally, becoming paler brown on 

 sides and yellowish brown on belly. Fins all dusky. Length, 105 

 mm. (Herre.) 



Lake Lanao, Mindanao. Said to resemble Barbus hatolo^ but 

 with shorter paired fins, fewer predorsal scales, and different 

 coloration. 



PUNTIUS MANGUAOENSIS (A. L. Day) 



Barl)us manguaoeusis A. L. Day, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, p. 189, pi. 1, 

 fig. 3, 1914 (type locality: Lake Manguao, near Taytay, northern Palawan). 



Barlodes manguaoenHs Heree, Proc. Pan Pacific Sci. Congi-ess, Australia, vol. 

 2, 1923, p. 1569, 1924 (Lake Manguao, Palawan) ; Philippine Journ. Sci., 

 vol. 24, No. 3, p. 297 (type), p. 706, 1924 (reference). — Roxas and Maetin, 

 Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull 6, p. 42, 1937 (reference). 



Depth 2% to 33/5; head 3i^ to 4. Snout broad; eye 31/2 to 41/7 in 

 head, I14 to li^ in snout, ll^ to 1% in interorbital; mouth very 

 oblique, lower jaw included; rostral barbel equals or very slightly 

 exceeds eye, maxillary 1/10 to % longer than rostral or eye; inter- 

 orbital 2 to 31/5 in head. Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5, 3—3, 5, 3, 2. 



D. rV, 8, fourth spine very broad, strong, moderately serrate, about 

 1% in head; A. m, 8; caudal badly damaged; pectoral i, 15, length 

 11/^ to 1% in head; ventral 1% to 1^%, rays i, 8. 



Faded, yellowish brown, darker above. Four black spots on side ; 

 largest and most distinct on lateral line on side of caudal peduncle 

 and before caudal base ; remaining 3 above lateral line, 1 above anal 

 origin, 1 above ventral origin and elongated above front part of 

 pectoral, all connected by indistinct broad black band. Length, 

 140 mm. (Herre.) 



Lake Manguao, Northern Palawan. Only the type and paratype 

 known. 



PUNTIUS SIBUKENSIS, new species 

 FiGUBB 25 



Barbus maculatus (not "Valenciennes, 1842) Vaiixant, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. 



Nat, Paris, ser. 3, vol. 5, p. 79, 1893 (Kina Balu). 

 Barbus clongatus (not Riippell, 1837) Si ale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, 



p. 265, pi. 2, fig. 1, 1910 (type locality: Sandakan, Borneo). 



