28 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



erate length, its tip obtusely rounded; anal papilla well devel- 

 oped (not absent, as erroneously stated by Ruppell) . 



Key to the Philippine species of Asterropteryx. 



a 1 . Scales in lateral series, 27 or 28; pale olive brown A. everetti. 



a 2 . Scales in lateral series, 24; body with blackish brown crossbands or 

 blotches; each scale with a brilliant blue spot A. semipunctatus. 



2. ASTERROPTERYX EVERETTI Bouienger 



Asterropteryx everetti BOULENGER, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. VI 15 

 (1895) 186. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 3J to 3 times in total length. 

 Head longer than deep; diameter of eye equal to length of snout, 1 length 

 of head; interorbital width % to J length of head; maxillary extending to 

 below anterior border of eye. Dorsal VI, I, 9; longest rays of first dorsal 

 I to length of head, of second dorsal to |. Anal I, 11; longest rays 

 g to g length of head. Pectoral t length of head. 27 or 28 scales in a 

 longitudinal series, 8 or 9 between origin of dorsal and origin of anal. Pale 

 olive-brown; a small black humeral spot; caudal faintly barred; dorsals 

 black in the male, with round white spots, greyish in the female. 



Total length 65 millim. 



Six specimens from Palawan. 



This species is nearest allied to A. compressus, Krefft, from Queensland. 

 \Botdenger, .] 



This dull-colored little fish was collected by A. Everett during 

 his trip to Balabac and Palawan in 1889, and has not been ob- 

 tained since that time. 



3. ASTERROPTERYX SEMIPUNCTATUS Ruppell 



PLATE 1, FIG. 2 



Asterropteryx semipunctatus RUPPELL, Atlas Reise nord. Afrika, 



Fische (1838) 138, pi. 34, fig. 4; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 



3 (1861) 132; JENKINS, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 22 (1902) 500; 



JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 23 (1903) 480; 



JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 25 (1906) 385, pi. 36, 



fig. 1. 



Eleotris cyanostigma BLEBKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 8 (1855) 452. 

 Eleotriodes cyanostigma BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 15 (1858) 460. 

 Brachyeleotris cyanostigma, BLEEKER, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat. 9 (1874) 



306; Versl. Akad. Amsterdam 11 (1877) 84. 

 Eleotris semipunctata GUNTHER, Fische der Siidsee 2 (1876) 187, 



pi. Ill, fig. D. 



Samal name, Jmsung. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10 to 11; anal I, 8 to 10; scales in lateral line 

 24; in transverse series from origin of second dorsal to anus 8. 



