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Later, fifty-seven specimens, 19 to 55 millimeters in length, 

 were secured from Pansipit River just below its source at 

 Taal Lake. When fresh they were silvery gray, or the upper 

 half with a golden brownish sheen, the scales of the upper half 

 or two-thirds densely sprinkled with fine blackish specks; a 

 conspicuous vertical black bar, starting on the shoulder, con- 

 tinued down over the base of the pectoral; a large black 

 spot on the lower half of the caudal base; opercle with a large 

 black or violet-black spot; both dorsals and the caudal were 

 crossbarred by numerous alternate whitish or pale and black 

 or dusky spots ; the ventrals lemon yellow ; the other fins yellow- 

 ish clear, or partly dusky. 



Still later, Mr. F. Reveche sent me from San Jose, Antique 

 Province, Panay, two fine specimens, 41 and 50 millimeters in 

 length ; in the larger one the anal papilla is wide with a lunate 

 tip. Also, Dr. P. B. Sivickis, of the University of the Philip- 

 pines, has given me a specimen, 27 millimeters long, from Puerto 

 Galera, Mindoro. 



11. HYPSELEOTKIS PANGEL sp. nov. 



PLATE 3, FIG. 2 



Local name, pangel. 



Dorsal VI, 1-8 or 9 ; anal I, 10 ; there are from 27 to 29 scales 

 (usually 28) in a longitudinal series, 8 in a transverse series, 

 and 15 scales between the first dorsal and the tip of the snout. 



The depth of the oblong, strongly compressed body about 

 3$ times in the length, its thickness about twice in the depth; 

 head laterally compressed and pointed, the dorsal profile de- 

 scending steeply in a nearly straight line from nape to snout, its 

 length 3 to 3f in head and body together; the rounded snout 

 wider than its length, which is 3.5 to 4 times in head and equal 

 to or slightly more than an eye diameter ; the interorbital space 

 is about the same or slightly exceeds the snout ; the mouth small, 

 nearly vertical, with a prominent lower jaw; the maxillary does 

 not extend back as far as front margin of eye; the entire body, 

 except lips and chin, covered with scales ; those below eyes and 

 on top of head cycloid, the rest all ctenoid; the conspicuous, 

 anal papilla very broad and long with revolute edges and a 

 bilobed or notched tip. The dorsal spines low, the rays half 

 again or twice as long; the pectorals are long, reaching to 

 anal papilla, as do the pointed ventrals which are little if any 

 shorter; the caudal obtusely rounded, and contained 4 to 4.5 

 times in the length. 



