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about. In alcohol the color is scarcely changed, the sides of 

 trunk, head, and nape thinly sprinkled with black spots, as in 

 Gobius sadanundio and shown in Bleeker's and Day's figures 

 of that species; the first dorsal has a dusky crossbar on basal 

 portion ; the second dorsal, caudal, and pectoral each crossbarred 

 with several rows of dark spots; the anal and ventrals dusky; 

 the prominent pupil of eye white. 



Here described from two specimens, 26 and 27 millimeters 

 in 4ength, collected in a coral-reef pool at Romblon. From Go- 

 bius sadanundio, to which it is closest in dorsal and anal for- 

 mulae and in general coloration, it differs markedly in scalation. 

 The lack of white spots on the body and the black spots sprinkled 

 here and there separate it from Bathygobius fuscus. 



I place here six specimens, 30 to 39 millimeters in length, 

 from Cabalian, Leyte; they differ in some respects but are 

 closest to the Romblon specimens. Dorsal VI, 19; each scale 

 darkened centrally, with black spots scattered thinly over body 

 and head and a large dark spot on opercle; the fins colored as 

 in the types, or second dorsal may have a broad dusky crossbar 

 near the middle. I also have another specimen, 35 millimeters 

 long, from the south coast of Cotabato Province, Mindanao; 

 dorsal VI, 1-9, anal I, 8. 



I take pleasure in naming the species for one of my artists, 

 Pablo Bravo, who helped me capture the type specimens. 



46. BATHYGOBIUS FUSCUS (Riippell) 



PLATE 8, PIG. 2 



Gobius fuscus RUPPELL, Atlas Reise, Fische (1828) 137. 

 Gobius punctUlatus RUPPELL, Atlas Reise, Fische (1828) 138. 

 Gobius nebulo-punctatus RUPPELL, Neue Wirbelt., Fische (1835) 139; 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 26. 

 Gobius soporator CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 12 



(1837) 43; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 25; Fische 



der Sudsee 2 (1876-1881) 172, pi. 110, fig. A; DAY, Fishes of India 



(1878) 294, pi. 63, fig. 7. 



Gobius padangensis BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 1 (1851) 249. 

 Gobius breviceps BLYTH, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1858) 271. 

 Gobius homocyanus VAILLANT and SAUVAGE, Rev. Mag. Zool. Ill 3 



(1875) 280. 

 Glossogobius giurus STREETS, Bull. U. S. JSfat. Mus. No. 7 (1877) 



60 (not of Buchanan Hamilton). 

 Gobius sandvicensis GUNTHER, Shore Fishes, Challenger, Zoology 1 



(1880) 60. 

 Mapo fuscus JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 23 l 



(1903) 484, fig. 212; JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 26 



(1907) 43; SEALS and BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 33 (1907) 248. 



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