The Fresh Water Fishes of the Island of Formosa. 305 



rather long, broadly rounded anleriorly; eyes moderate, superior, but 

 directed laterally; interorbital space broad, more or less concave; 

 mouth slightly oblique, with very thick lips, its angle reaching a 

 vertical through center of the orbit; upper jaw a little longer than the 

 lower; teeth in a broad villiform band, no canine teeth, those in outer 

 row somewhat larger; tongue broad, deeply notched in front; gill- 

 openings run forward below; inner edge of shoulder-girdle without 

 papillae; gill-rakers very short; nostrils separated, the anterior in a 

 short tube. 



Head naked, except the occiput; body covered with large ctenoid 

 scales, those on the nape and belly small and cycloid. 



Dorsal fins separated; spines not filamentous, third spine longest, 

 contained 1.82 in head, soft rays a little shorter than the spines, 

 anterior longest; pectorals large, reaching the posterior end of the 

 base of spinous dorsal; ventrals united, free from belly; anal flap well 

 developed; anal fin inserted below second dorsal ray, when depressed 

 reaching to the root of caudal; caudal fin rounded. 



Color in formalin dark brown above, paler below, sides and upper 

 part of the body with a number of vermiculated black spots; mem- 

 branes of the dorsal fins dusky, spines and rays with a series of dark 

 spots; caudal fin with a number of vertical cross-bars; the rest of the 

 fin grayish. 



Length of the body 118 mm. 



Described from a specimen from Inzampo, Giran, collected by 

 T. Aoki in August, 191 7. 



Habitat: Inzampo, Giran (two specimens). 



Measurements of Glossogobius grainmepomus. 



. 74. -Glossogobius parvus sp. nov. (Plate LI II, Fig. 3). 

 Head 3.18 in length; depth 4; D. VI, 9; A. 9; P. 16; V. I, 5; width 

 of head 1.5 in its length; eye 4 in head; snout 3; interorbital space 

 2.5; depth of caudal peduncle 2.25; maxillary 2.2; scales about forty- 

 one in a lateral series, thirteen scales between origins of the soft 

 dorsal and anal; pectoral 1.5 in head; ventral 2. 

 21 — JAN. 12, 1919. 



