BUTIS 49 



profile descends very steeply toward front, and is slightly con- 

 cave from behind eyes to tip of snout; the head depressed, wide, 

 and very long, contained 2.7 to 3 times in length; the snout 

 long, 2$ to 3 times in head, and twice the diameter of an eye ; 

 interorbital space broad, thickly scaled, about 4 times in the 

 length of the head; the eyes high up but lateral, rather small, 

 and contained 1.25 to 1.5 times in interorbital space and 5.3 

 to 6 times in the length of the head; the mouth large, with 

 strongly projecting lower jaw, oblique, the curved maxillary 

 not reaching eye or extending to a point scarcely beyond an- 

 ttJrior margin; the anterior nostril very small with a corre- 

 spondingly small tubule; the posterior nostril much larger and 

 open or partly covered by a thin flap; the depth of caudal 

 peduncle from 7.5 to 8 times in the length and 1.9 to 2.1 times 

 in its own length; the short ventrals do not reach anus, the 

 pectorals extending beyond them, sometimes reaching anal fin; 

 the caudal broad, rounded, its length about 4 times in head and 

 trunk. 



A low ridge, but little or not at all serrated, curves about 

 each eye, above and behind it and at some distance away, two 

 or three rows of small scales lying between it and the eye; the 

 preorbital ridges are very low and inconspicuous, serrate, and 

 approach each other very closely near tip of snout ; on the inner 

 side of the interorbital ridges is a broad naked or scaleless 

 strip which continues as a well-marked irregular line from end 

 of orbital ridge immediately behind eye to upper extremity of 

 pectoral base ; the entire body except tip of snout, lips, and chin 

 covered with scales; those on bases of pectoral and the region 

 in front of the ventrals cycloid, the rest all ctenoid. Inter- 

 orbital scales and those around eyes, on snout, and on throat 

 all small to very small. 



The color of a living spawning female, 82 millimeters long, 

 taken from Pasig River several kilometers above its mouth, was 

 as follows : General color gray, with five or six blackish cross- 

 bands, obscure anteriorly but well defined on rear half of body ; 

 top of head was irregularly lined and mottled with grayish 

 and dusky; a blackish streak extended from snout through eye 

 to opercle; each scale had a pale spot, the spots forming longi- 

 tudinal rows along the sides; on base of pectoral were two 

 elongate pink spots with a much larger, nearly circular black 

 spot between them, the pectoral itself being colorless ; first dorsal 

 had greenish black and pale transverse blotches; second dorsal 

 was clear with dark spots basally and posteriorly ; ventrals and 



