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tal Negros. A cotype, 167 millimeters long, from Pulangui Ri- 

 ver near Reina Regente, Cotabato Province, Mindanao, is a fe- 

 male; another cotype, 228 millimeters long, I collected from 

 Abra River, near Bangued, Abra Province; unfortunately the 

 viscera were accidentally removed, but it is probably a male. 

 The fourth specimen, a female with eggs fairly well developed, 

 was taken in Lapid Lapid River, Tawitawi, July 26, 1924. It 

 has the same length as the Abra specimen, but the depth is much 

 J greater (3.86 times in the length) than in the other specimens, 

 owing to nearness to the spawning season; the head is longer 

 than in the Abra specimen, the difference being in the longer 

 snout of the Sulu Archipelago specimen. 



In addition to the above, I have obtained five specimens, 60 

 to 76 millimeters in length, from Kabatohan River, near Iba, 

 Zambales Province, and a very fine specimen, 137 millimeters 

 long, from Kabulig River, Nueva Vizcaya Province, near Casi- 

 guran, on the east coast of Luzon. I have just received three 

 specimens, 47 to 57 millimeters in length, from F. Reveche, San 

 Jose, Antique Province. These young specimens lack some of 

 the characters of mature specimens ; the caudal has a large black 

 basal band and behind it a very broad white band, with dark 

 bars on the rest of the fins. 



During the latter half of 1925 and most of 1926 I have had 

 under continuous observation four large living specimens taken 

 from Pasig River by Mr. Thomas Gary Welch, at his residence 

 in Santa Ana, Manila, the largest one 207 millimeters long, 

 or 257 millimeters with the caudal fin, the others nearly as large. 

 Their colors are as follows : Above velvety dark brown, merging 

 into alternate longitudinal lines of dark brown and greenish gray 

 on the sides, the belly grayish- or gray with numerous longitu- 

 dinal lines of light brown; six broad, poorly defined, lighter- 

 colored dorsal crossbands, one on the head, one before the first 

 dorsal, one at the posterior part of the first dorsal, one at the 

 anterior and one at the posterior part of the second dorsal, 

 and one behind the second dorsal; the three under the dorsals 

 are most distinct; from the mouth a dark streak goes back 

 through the eye and divides, one branch going along the upper 

 margin of the opercle and a broader and more distinct one 

 backward and downward from the eye across the preopercle ; be- 

 tween these bands the snout is paler, with a central blackish 

 spot on the projecting lower lip as well as on the upper; the 

 lower sides and underpart of the head, especially around the 



