gg GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



In addition to observing a great many living specimens, both 

 large and small, I have examined several hundred alcoholic speci- 

 mens, from 13 to 180 millimeters in length, mainly collected in 

 fresh water at the following localities : 



Lake Paoay, Ilocos Norte Prov- 

 ince. 



Karowan, Cagayan Province. 



San Fernando, La Union Prov- 

 ince. 



Kabulig River, Casiguran, Ta- 

 yabas Province. 



Kabatohan River near Iba, 

 Zambales Province. 



Pasig River, Manila. 



Laguna de Bay. 



Manang River, Antipolo, Rizal 

 Province. 



Cayman Lake, Los Banos, La- 

 guna Province. 



Molawin Creek, College of Agri- 

 culture, Laguna Province. 



Balanak River, Pagsanjan, La- 

 guna Province. 



Nasugbu, Batangas Province. 



Lake Taal, Batangas Prov- 

 ince. 



Pansipit River, Batangas Prov- 

 ince. 



Alabat Island. 



Mangso River, Albay Province. 



Puru, Legaspi, Albay Province. 



Tambo River, Ambil Island. 



Calapan, Mindoro. 



Naujan River, Mindoro. 



Mambach and Subaan Rivers, 

 Lake Naujan, Mindoro. 



A fresh-water stream, Tablas 

 Island. 



Sibuyan. 



River at Catarman, Samar. 



Anahawan, Leyte. 



Dumaguete River; Oriental Ne- 

 gros. 



San Jose, Antique Province, Pa- 

 nay. 



Cuyo. 



Culion. 



Taytay, Palawan. 



Balabac. 



Basilan. 



Zamboanga, Mindanao. 



Tatayan and Saub Rivers, south 

 coast of Cotabato Province, 

 Mindanao. 



Lapid Lapid River, Tawitawi. 



The Bureau of Science collection also contains a large speci- 

 men received from the museum at Calcutta, India. 



This species apparently spawns about the first of September ; 

 my largest specimen, 225 millimeters long over all, collected in 

 a river on Tawitawi, July 26, 1924, had the ovaries distended 

 with eggs which were nearly fully developed. 



Most of my specimens are the Ophiocara hoedti of Bleeker, dis- 

 tinguished by the presence of 13 to 15 scales before the dorsal 

 fin and by a black lateral band along each side. However, I 

 have gradations from those with 13 up to those with 17 scales 

 before the dorsal fin, and from those with an exceedingly dis- 

 tinct lateral bar to those in which it is almost or quite lacking. 

 I am therefore unable to separate O. aporos and O. hoedti. Nei- 

 ther can I agree with Gunther's statement in Fische der Sudsee 



