FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 801 



more or less distinct on body at front of anal base, often strongly 

 contrasted. Vertical fins more or less pale brownish to grayish, 

 paired fins whitish, often anal largely so. 



Tijpe.—V.S.^M. No. 99438, Silimpopon Eiver, Sibuko Bay, Borneo. 

 October 2, 1909. Length, 116 mm. 



Diagnosis. — Known by its combination of characters; 16 scales 

 aroimd caudal peduncle ; 4 black lateral spots always well contrasted 

 and vary somewhat in size, especially the second enlarged, often the 

 first indistinct, and the third sometimes absent. The black anal 

 spot always small, if often indistinct. 



17 examples. Silimpopon River, Sibuko Bay, Borneo. October 2, 1909. Lengtli, 



4^-116 mm. 

 11 examples. Sebatic, British North Borneo. October 5, 1909. Length, 44-102 



mm. Black spots variable. 



PUNTIUS BANTOLENSIS (A. L. Day) 



Bartus hantolensis A. L. Day, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, p. 188, pi. 1, figs. 



1-2, 1914 (type locality: Lake Manguao, near Taytay, in northern Palawan). 

 Barbodcs tantolensis Herre, Proc. Pan Pacific Sci. Congr., Australia, vol. 2, 



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



24, p. 298 (type), p. 706, 1924 (reference). — Roxas and Martin, Dept. Agr. 



Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 41, 1937 (reference). 



Depth 2% to 3V5, oblong elongate, decided hump at nape or upper 

 profile strongly convex; head 2% to 3i/4. Snout broad, bluntly 

 rounded; eye 41/5 to 51/10 in head, 1% to lyio in snout, 1% to l%o in 

 interorbital ; mouth large, terminal, moderately oblique, upper lip 

 projecting slightly beyond included lower lip; rostral barbel stout, 

 l^ longer than eye, reaches front eye edge, maxillary stronger and 

 1% times eye, reaches eye center; interorbital wide, nearly flat. 

 Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5, 3-3, 5, 3, 2. 



Scales 24 to 26 in lateral line; .5 above, 3 below, 12 around caudal 

 peduncle. Ventral axillary scale % to % longer than eye. 



D. IV, 8, fourth spine strong, 1% to 14^ in head, osseous part 

 strongly serrate nearly to base; A. iii, 5, low, 2i/^ to 2%; caudal 

 (damaged) broadly forked; pectoral 1% to 1%; ventral 1% to 1%0' 



Brownish yellow, dusky above, paler below to very pale yellowish 

 on belly. Dark spot on nape with more or less evident dark stripe 

 from nape to caudal. Indistinct dark lateral band from shoulder 

 to caudal. Very large dark spot or bar across caudal peduncle near 

 caudal base. Dark elongate blotch behind shoulder. Large dark 

 spot between dorsal origin and A^entral, another circular between 

 same and caudal. Fins unmarked. Sometimes dark spot along 

 dorsal base. Length, 124 mm. (Herre.) 



Lake Manguao, northern Palawan. 



