98 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



Lake Buhi is a beautiful expanse of water, of irregular bilobed 

 shape, about 50 meters in average depth, and about 4 or 5 kilo- 

 meters wide by 7 or 8 kilometers long. It lies at an elevation 

 of about 100 meters and is surrounded by lofty rugged moun- 

 tains, which along much of its coast line rise precipitously from 

 the shore. The lake is well supplied with a goodly variety of 

 fishes, some of them known from only Bicol River and its trib- 

 utaries, of which Lake Buhi is a feeder, but sinarapan occur 

 only in the lake. 



Jagor was the first writer to notice these tiny gobies and he 

 stated that they were caught and eaten daily in enormous quan- 

 tities. His specimens, collected in November, 1859, were sent 

 to Doctor Peters of Berlin, along with other fishes from Buhi. 

 Peters evidently did not examine them closely and probably 

 thought they were the young of Gobius dispar, one of his new 

 species, also from Lake Buhi. 



They received no further notice until the American occupation, 

 when Dr. Zeller and Dr. F. W. Richardson, of the United States 

 Army, stationed at Buhi, sent specimens to Dr. H. M. Smith, of 

 the Bureau of Fisheries, who described them as a new genus and 

 species. The Bureau of Science collection contains several thou- 

 sand specimens. 



Genus 22. REDIGOBIUS g. nov. 



This genus is established to receive Gobius sternbergi H. M. 

 Smith, a species described by him from Lake Buhi, Camarines 

 Sur Province, Luzon. It is said to have five first dorsal spines ; 

 in other respects it agrees with Gnatholepis. The published 

 figure bears a remarkable resemblance to female specimens of 

 Vaimosa dispar (Peters), except that it has scaled cheeks. Ex- 

 tensive collecting in Lake Buhi during the past year has failed to 

 reveal this fish there. It is known from only six specimens in 

 the United States National Museum, collected in 1901. 



Redigo, reduced in number, in allusion to the reduced number 

 of dorsal spines. 



37. REDIGOBIUS STERNBERGI (H. M. Smith) 



Gobvus sternbergi H. M. SMITH, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 21 (1901) 



169, with figure. 

 Gnatholepis (?) sternbergi JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Check List Phil. 



Fishes (1910) 47. 



Dorsal V, 1-7; anal I, 7; 25 or 26 scales in a longitudinal 

 series, 8 in a transverse series, and 12 before first dorsal. 



