306 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Body rather slender, laterally compressed; head more or less 

 depressed, broader than body, cheek fleshy, somewhat bulged out 

 laterally; snout flat, broadly rounded anteriorly, interorbital space 

 rather flat; eyes superior, directed laterally; mouth oblique, its angle 

 reaching a vertical through centre of orbit; lips fleshy; upper jaw 

 slightly longer than the lower; teeth in villiform bands, no caniniform 

 teeth; tongue quadrate, emarginate at the tip; nostrils widely separated, 

 the anterior in a short tube, just behind the upper lip; gill-openings 

 extending downward and a little forward; gill-rakers very short. 



Dorsal fin separated; spinous dorsal rather small, triangular, the 

 anterior spine longest, no filamentous spines, when depressed not 

 reaching the origin of soft dorsal; soft dorsal rather low, the posterior 

 ray longest, its height contained twice in the length of head; pectorals 

 rounded, reaching beyond the middle of base of spinous dorsal; 

 ventrals united, not adnate to the belly, cup round and deep; anal 

 flap well developed, elongate; the anal inserted below the second ray 

 of soft dorsal, as high as the soft dorsal; caudal fin rounded. 



Body covered with thin minute ctenoid scales; head, except occiput, 

 naked; scales on the occiput and belly minute and cycloid; base of the 

 pectoral fleshy and scaly. 



Color in formalin brownish gray, sides with a number of irregular 

 dark cross-bars; cheek with two longitudinal brown stripes originating 

 at the orbit; dorsal fins brownish gray; tip of the spinous dorsal black, 

 interspace between each ray with a black streak; caudal fin dusky, 

 with three dark cross-bars; the rest of the fins uniformly dusky. 



Length of body 44 mm. 



Described from a specimen from Kizanto, Giran, collected by T. 

 Aoki in August, 191 7. 



Habitat: Kizanto, Giran (a single specimen). 



Remarks: Kizanto is a small island near Giran; the present species 

 is probably a marine fish. 



75. Glossogobius abacopus Jordan & Richardson. 



1909. Glossogobius abacopus Jordan &; Richardson, Mem. Carneg. Mus., IV, 

 no. 4, p. 200; Takao, Formosa. 



Head to tip of lower jaw three times in length; depth 5.5; eye 4 in 

 head; dorsal VI, 10; anal 10; scales 28-30; snout 3.4 in head; maxillary 

 2.4; interorbital space slightly greater than width of juipil. Body 

 elongate, rather depressed in front, tapering gradualh' backward to 



