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back may be dark brown or blackish ; usually a dark brown bar 

 extends forward and downward from eye and a similar one 

 from eye diagonally across preopercle and opercle; the cheeks 

 often darkened by other bars and spots; the dorsals may have 

 the upper or anterior part golden yellow ; the caudal and second 

 dorsal crossbarred with blackish spots; the ventrals dusky to 

 clear. 



I have examined living and alcoholic specimens, varying in 

 length from 12 to 108 millimeters, from the following localities : 



Mission, Cagayan Province, 6. 



Laoag River, Ilocos Norte, 94. 



Pinacanawan River, Lamug, 

 Pena Blanca, Cagayan Prov- 

 ince, 4. 



Dupax, Nueva Vizcaya Prov- 

 ince, 4. 



Santa Fe, Nueva Vizcaya, 24. 



Baguio, Benguet Subprovince, 

 9. 



Bangar, La Union Province, 19. 



Bauang Sur, La Union Prov- 

 ince, 1. 



Gulf of Lingayen, 1. 



Agno River, Pangasinan Prov- 

 ince, 1. 



Gumay River, Pampanga Prov- 

 ince, 10. 



Banaban River, Angat, Bulacan 

 Province, 3. 



Kalingay brook, iron mine, An- 

 gat, Bulacan Province, 28. 



Pinagsangkan River, Angat, 

 Bulacan Province, 8. 



Angat River, Bulacan Province, 

 5. 



Ibo Creek, Bulacan Province, 8. 



Sapanga Creek, Angat, Bulacan 

 Province, 11. 



Sibul Springs, Bulacan Prov- 

 ince, 5. 



Calumpang River, Norzagaray, 

 Bulacan Province, 18. 



Santa Ines River, Rizal Prov- 

 ince, 10. 



Trig River, Rizal Province, 1. 



Marikina River, Montalban, 4. 



Manang River, Antipolo, Rizal 

 Province, 2. 



Malabon, Rizal Province, 1. 



Mayondon, Laguna de Bay, 1. 



Molawin Creek, Los Banos, La- 

 guna Province, 6. 



Balanak River, Pagsanjan, La- 

 guna Province, 2. 



Lamul, Cavite Province, 8. 



Lake Taal, Batangas Province, 

 80. 



Lucban, Tayabas Province, 45. 



Talakop Creek, Camarines Sur 

 Province, 4. 



Bacon, Sorsogon Province, 1. 



Polillo, 1. 



Mambac River, Lake Naujan, 

 Mindoro, 8. 



San Jose, Antique Province, Pa- 

 nay, 12. 



Capiz, Panay, 3. 



Dumangas, Iloilo Province, 1. 



Zarraga, Iloilo Province, 1. 



Concepcion, Busuanga, 1. 



Dumaguete River, Dumaguete, 

 Oriental Negros, 1. 



Siquijor, 3. 



Daguitan River, Dulag, Leyte, 1. 



Kolambugan, Lanao Province, 

 2. 



Rio Grande de Mindanao, Cota- 

 bato Province, 1. 



Davao, Mindanao, 3. 



Taytay, Palawan, 2. 



Balabac, 4. 



This species does not grow to the size of G. giurus and matures 

 when still rather small. Specimens, 54 and 55 millimeters long, 

 collected in Santa Ines River in the mountains north of Laguna 



