124 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



specimens collected by E. H. Taylor and four specimens collected 

 by W. Schultze, all from the same locality, the largest 59 milli- 

 meters long. One of the cotypes and three of the Taylor 

 collection have seven dorsal spines. 



I also place here two specimens collected by me from Rio 

 Chico, Bontoc, 41 and 46 millimeters in length; in these the 

 posterior margin of the caudal is white. Six young specimens, 

 each about 20 millimeters long, from Balete Pass, Nueva Viz- 

 caya Province, altitude 860 meters, also belong here. 



52. TUKUGOBIUS PHILIPPINUS ep. nov. 



Tagalog name, biang tuku (lizard goby). 



Dorsal VI, or VII, 1-8 or 9; anal I, 7 or 8; 36 to 40 scales 

 in a longitudinal series, 12 to 14 in a transverse series, and 12 

 to 14 rows of scales before the first dorsal. 



The body low, with nearly parallel dorsal and ventral profiles 

 or the belly a little protuberant, plump and subcylindrical an- 

 teriorly, wedgelike seen from above, laterally compressed poste- 

 riorly, the depth 4.4 to 5.5 in length ; the large, broad, depressed 

 head 3.2 to 3.66 in length, its upper profile descending at an 

 angle of about 45 to tip of snout; the cheeks fat, so that the 

 head is much wider than the body, its breadth f its length and 

 its depth 0.7 its width; the snout broadly rounded, 2.4 to 3 

 in head; the eyes dorsolateral, rather small, 5 to 5.5 in the 

 head in adults, 4 or less in those not fully grown, 1.3 to 2 times 

 in snout; the interorbital 1.5 to 2 in eye; the slightly oblique 

 terminal mouth low down, with large thick lips, the jaws equal 

 or the upper lip slightly projecting, the posterior angle of 

 maxillary beneath front margin of eye or scarcely reaching 

 it; the teeth of outer row in upper jaw curved and a little en- 

 larged; some distance behind are three rows of minute, sharp- 

 pointed teeth; in the lower jaw are three rows of very small 

 teeth, those of the outer row larger than the others and curved 

 outward ; the head and nape naked except for the minute scales 

 before first dorsal; the pectoral bases and the region down to 

 and including the breast naked; the belly scaled; the dorsals 

 small, far apart, approximately equal in height or first dorsal 

 a little higher, usually equal to depth, rarely exceeding it ; the 

 second and third dorsal spines usually have filamentous tips 

 but the first dorsal rarely reaches second dorsal when depressed ; 

 the short anal may equal but is usually a little less than second 



