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dorsal alternately crossbarred with black and golden or clear; 

 the anal black; the caudal crossbanded alternately with black 

 and golden or clear; the pectorals clear or faintly dusky; the 

 ventrals black or blackish with a broad pale margin. 



Here described from six specimens, 23 to 26 millimeters in 

 length, collected from the creek at barrio Puru, Legaspi, Albay 

 Province. The smallest specimens, 23 millimeters long, were 

 females ready to spawn, February 4, 1926. 



Bikolana, a native of the Bicol provinces. 



67. VAIMOSA SAPANGA sp. HOT. 



PLATE 11, FIG. 3 



Dorsal VI, 1-7; anal I, 7; there are 26 or 28 scales in a 

 longitudinal series, 8 in a transverse series, and 7 or 8 before 

 the first dorsal, the first one largest. 



The body and head laterally compressed, the trunk moderately 

 plump, the dorsal profile convex, the ventral profile nearly hori- 

 zontal except in spawning females, when it is curved downward 

 as much as the back is upward, the depth 3.9 to 4.4 times in 

 length ; the upper profile of head convex, pointed in lateral view, 

 3.3 to 3.7 times in length; the head deeper than broad, the 

 breadth 0.8 of its depth ; the snout short, convex, rounded, about 

 5 times in head, and 1.5 to 1.6 times in eye; the eyes high up, 

 lateral, 3 times in head; the interorbital 3 times in eye; the 

 mouth moderately large, oblique, the jaws equal, the posterior 

 angle of maxillary beneath the middle or posterior margin of 

 pupil ; a narrow band of three rows of tiny erect needlelike teeth 

 in upper jaw and four rows of similar teeth in lower jaw; the 

 body covered with large ctenoid scales which apparently become 

 cycloid anteriorly and extend to eyes ; the opercle covered by five 

 large cycloid scales ; the supraopercular groove conspicuous ; the 

 dorsals well separated, the first spine or first, second, and third 

 spines longest, 1.5 times in head and 5.5 times in length, not 

 reaching second dorsal when depressed ; the second dorsal and 

 anal angulate posteriorly, the posterior rays longest but not 

 extending more than halfway to base of caudal, equal to or a 

 little lower than first dorsal, 1.5 to 1.7 in head and 5.5 to 6.25 

 times in length; the caudal peduncle as long as head, its depth 

 2.3 times in its own length; the caudal truncate, shorter than 

 or equal to head in length, 3.5 to 4 times in length; the broadly 

 pointed pectoral equals head in length and extends posteriorly 

 to a point above origin of anal ; the pointed ventrals f as long 

 as pectoral, 4.1 to 4.3 times in length; the anal papilla small, 

 thin, flat, triangular, larger in females than in males. 



