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37, many of them ready to spawn, specimens 22.5 millimeters 

 long being full of eggs ; they were collected February 3, 1926. 

 Bipartita, in two parts, in reference to the strongly differen- 

 tiated color patterns of the sexes. 



10. HYPSELEOTRIS MODESTUS (Bleeker) 



Eleotris cyprinoides BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 4 (1853) 277 (not 



of Cuvier and Valenciennes or of Giinther). 

 Asterropteryx modestus BLEEKER, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat. 10 (1875) 



111; Rev. Especes Eleotriformes, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam 11 (1877) 



81. 

 Hypseleotris modestus JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. Bar. Fisheries 



27 (1908) 276. 



Tagalog name, lomog. 



Dorsal VI, 1-9 or 10; anal I, 10 or 11. 



There are 27 to 29 scales in a longitudinal series, 8 in a 

 transverse series from the second dorsal to the anal, and 5 in 

 a transverse series on the caudal peduncle. 



The depth of the oblong compressed body contained 3.9 times 

 in the length, the head about 3.5 times; the dorsal and ventral 

 profiles both gently convex, with pointed head and small snout, 

 its tip slightly elevated so that the profile behind it is a little 

 concave; the snout very short, and contained 4.4 times in the 

 head; the eye prominent and larger, its diameter 3f times in 

 the head and \\ times in the interorbital space; the least depth 

 of caudal peduncle contained twice in its own length; the ven- 

 trals as long as or longer than the pectorals, extending be- 

 yond anus; the caudal fin broad, rather truncate, its length 3.8 

 times in the length; the anal papilla small, oblong, its tip mi- 

 nutely notched. 



The color in alcohol uniform brown, belly paler ; a faint dark 

 crossbar on base of pectoral, and a small dark brown circular 

 spot on lower half of base of caudal fin ; the second dorsal and 

 caudal fins obscurely barred with pale brown, the other fins 

 colorless. 



I have placed here a single specimen, 38 millimeters long, 

 collected in a brook near Taytay, Palawan. The species was 

 recorded also from Mindoro, by Jordan and Richardson. These 

 specimens do not agree exactly with Bleeker's account. His 

 three specimens from Singapore and Sumatra had 28 scales, 

 the Mindoro specimen, 29. 



Since the above was written I have obtained three more spec- 

 imens, 28, 26, and 23 millimeters long, from Daguitan River, 

 Dulag, Leyte. 



