802 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



PUNTIUS LANAOENSIS (Herre) 



Barbodes lanaoensis Herre, 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. 300 (Dansalan, Lake Lanao), p. 706, 1924 

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

 Lanao). — Roxas and Martin, Departm. Agric. Conim. Manila, Tech. Bull. 

 6, p. 42, 1937 (reference). 



Depth 2% to 3 ; head Si/g to 31/3, width 2 to 2i/s. Snout 32/5 to 31/2 

 in head; eye 3% to 4, 1% to I14 in snout, 1 to 1% in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches eye, length 3 to 3% in head; front barbel ZYq to 

 3%, hind barbel 2% to 2% ; lower jaw slightly included in upper; in- 

 terorbital 3l^ to 314 in head, broadly convex ; suborbitals cover I/3 of 

 cheek to preopercle ridge. Gill rakers 2+6, lanceolate, 21^4 in gill 

 filaments, which 1% in eye. Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5-5, 3, 2, with 

 slight terminal hooks and grinding surfaces. 



Scales 22 to 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter ; 

 5 above, 3 below, 9 predorsal, 12 around caudal peduncle. Scales 

 with 8 or 9 imperfect radiating apical striae, none basal; circuli 

 finely concentric, imperfect apically. 



D. IV, 8, I, fourth spine osseous, enlarged, with well-developed 

 serrae along hind edges terminally, first branched ray 1% to 1% in 

 head; A. m, 5, i, first branched ray 2 to 21/10; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% to 2i/^ ; pectoral 1% to II/2 ; ventral 1% to 1% ; caudal 

 314 to 3% in rest of body, lobes pointed, rather slender, well forked. 



Back rather light brown, sides and lower surface silvery white, 

 also sides of head. Iris silvery white. Front barbel grayish above, 

 hind one whitish. Obscure, ill-defined, grayish blotch at caudal 

 base medially. Dorsal, caudal and pectoral grayish, other fins 

 whitish. 



Lake Lanao, Mindanao. 



5 examples. Vicar market. Lake Lanao, Mindanao. May 23, 1908. Length, 

 70-81 mm. 



PUNTIUS BAOULAN (Herre) 



Barbodes baonlan Hebee, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 29, p. 499, pi. 1, 1926 (type 

 locality : Philippines) ; Fishes Herre Philippine Exped. 1931, p. 21, 1934 (Lake 

 Lanao). — Roxas and Martin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila, Tech. Bull. 6, p. 41, 

 1937 (reference). 



Depth 2% to 3; very broad, deep, nearly arrow-shaped; head 3^4 

 to 31/3. Snout 2% to 31/3 in head ; eye 41/2 to 5%, 11/3 to 1% in snout; 

 maxillary reaches % to eye, length 31^ in head; mouth moderate, 

 slightly inferior, barbels long, rostral reaches hind eye edge or be- 

 yond, maxillary beyond hind preopercle edge; interorbital equals 

 snout length, broad, slightly concave. 



Scales 24 to 26 in lateral line (last 2 evidently on caudal base) ; 

 5 above, 3 below, 9 or 10 predorsal, 12 around caudal peduncle. 



