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of first dorsal; three crossbars of black dots on second dorsal 

 and eight on caudal, besides three spots at its base; the anal 

 dusky; the pectoral and ventrals dusky brown with narrow 

 white margin. 



Here described from the type, 36 millimeters long, collected 

 at the town of Villa, Iloilo Province, Panay, and one cotype, 

 35 millimeters long, from Molo, Iloilo Province. This very well- 

 marked species is close to V. fontinalis Jordan and Seale, of 

 Samoa. 



Villa, from the locality where it was collected. 



Genus 32. GLOSSOGOBIUS Gill 



Glossogobius GILL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859 (1860) 146. 



The body elongate, with a large, broad, and anteriorly 

 depressed head; the chin strongly projecting, the mouth large, 

 oblique, and the tongue deeply notched or its tip is even bilobed ; 

 the teeth in about four rows in each jaw, those of outer row 

 much larger or caninif orm and fixed ; the other teeth all depress- 

 ible; the trunk covered with rather large ctenoid scales, 28 to 

 33 in longitudinal series in Philippine species, those on the nape 

 smaller ; the sides of head naked except for small scales on upper 

 part of opercle; the gill openings wide, with narrow isthmus; 

 branchiostegals 4 ; pseudobranchise well developed ; no free silky 

 rays on upper part of pectoral ; the dorsal and anal fins short, 

 the caudal large, nearly as long as head. 



Dorsal VI, 1-8 to 10; anal I, 7 to 9. 



This Oriental genus, distributed from the east coast of Africa 

 to Japan, includes the most valuable of the East Indian gobies. 



Key to the Philippine species of Glossogobius, 



a 1 . Scales, 14 to 17 before first dorsal. 



6 1 . A circular projection from upper iris into pupil of eye; two ocelli on 

 first dorsal G. biocellatus. 



b*. No projection from iris into pupil; no ocelli on first dorsal G. celebius. 

 a 3 . Scales, 21 to 26 before first dorsal G. giurus. 



70. GLOSSOGOBIUS BIOCELLATUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



PLATE 12, FIG. 3 



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

 (1837) 55; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 20; DAY, 

 Fishes of India (1878) 289, pi. 63, fig. 8; WEBER, Siboga Exped. 

 Fische (1913) 470. 



Glossogobius biocellatus EVERMANN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 

 26 (1907) 104; SMITH and SEALE, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 19 

 (1906) 81. 



