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pectorals yellowish without distinct black mark at base: ventrals grayish with dusky tip; anal yellow, with 

 black tip; some indistinct brown blotches on cheek and opercle; a dusky blotch from eye to mouth. 



Three specimens from the island of Panay, length 1.50 to .3.90 inches. The type is no. .53009, U. S. 

 National Museum. Cotype, no. 9248. Museum Stanford University. 



218. Rhinogobius ocyurus .hirdiui i.t Scale, new species. 



Head 3.60 in length without caudal; depth 4.0.5; eye 3.20 in head; dorsal v;-i, 10; anal i, 9; second 

 dorsal spint elongate, filiform; scales about 28; snout 4 in head; interorbital somewhat less than pupil; top 

 of head scaled, otherwise cheek and head naked. Body moderately elongate, slightly compre.s.sed; depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2 in head; mouth moderate in size, the angle under middle of eye; lower jaw slightly the 

 longer; small sharp-pointed teeth in jaws, the outer row larger; tongue rounded; origin of ventrals directly 



Fig. li. — Jih/nogobius ocyurus .T 



Lt Seale, new species. Type. 



opposite origin of spinous dorsal; base of soft dorsal aljout equal to head; base of anal slightl,v less than head, 

 its origin nearer base of caudal than tip of snout, its longest ray 1.10 in head; pectorals 1.60 in length of body 

 without caudal; ventrals extending to anal, their length equal to head: caudal long, sharp-pointed, 2.20 in 

 length of fish without caudal. 



Color in spirits yellowish white with S rather broad brownish bands over ba<'k and sides, extending to 

 ventral surface; a dark spot at base of caudal, another just above the upper posterior margin of opercle; dorsal 

 fins slightly shaded with dusky; pectoral yellowish; caudal with sliglit tint of dusky: ventrals and anal dusky- 



One specimen from Cavite, length 1.7.5 inches, type no. .5.3070, U. S. National iluseum. 



GOBITJS Linnseus, 

 219. Gobius panayensis .Jordan & Seale, new species. 



Fig. 15.—'.' ii'oies. Type. 



Head 3.40 in length without caudal; depth 4.25; the width of head greater than its depth; dorsal vi-11; 

 anal 9, scales 41; head naked; some detached silky rays at upper part of pectorals; snout 3.60 in head; 

 interorbital about equal to pupil; tongue not at all einarginate, free at tip, bluntly rounded, entire. 



Body moderately elongate, compressed: snout bluntly pointed, the jaws equal: mouth moderate, the 

 angle under middle of eye: wide bands of minute teeth in each jaw: no canines; origin of fii-st dorsal slightly 



