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the anal uniformly dusky, the ventral black or very dark; the 

 caudal has some large black spots on its base above and below 

 the median spot, and from three to six curved crossbars of 

 black spots on the remainder of the fin. 



Here described from a specimen, 65 millimeters long, from 

 Nasugbu, Batangas Province, and twenty-five specimens, rang- 

 ing in length from 36 to 65 millimeters, from Iloilo, Panay. I 

 have five specimens from Inabanga, Bohol. 



This species has been known heretofore only from the type 

 specimens described from Cavite by Jordan and Scale. The 

 original description is in error in stating "no canines." 

 Genus 34. CRISTATOGOBIUS g. nor. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10; anal I, 10. 



This genus is separated at once from all other East Indian 

 gobies by the high, thin, skinny crest on its nape; from Lo- 

 phogobius Gill, of the West Indies and Florida, to which it is 

 closely allied, it is particularly separated by differences in den- 

 tition. The teeth are in four rows in each jaw, with a pos- 

 terior pair of large, curved canines in lower jaw, whereas in 

 Lophogobius there is but a single row of teeth in each jaw, 

 without canines. 



Body rather slender, laterally compressed, covered with large 

 ctenoid scales, 28 to 30 in a longitudinal series, those on the nape 

 much smaller, cycloid; head naked, with rows of minute papillae 

 on its sides; fins small, dorsals separate, caudal pointed, longer 

 than head. Generic type, (7. lophius sp. nov. 



Cristatus, having a comb. 



75. CRISTATOGOBIUS LOPHIUS sp. nov. 



PLATE 13, FIG. 1 



Dorsal VI, 1-10; anal I, 10; there are 28 to 30 scales in a 

 longitudinal series and 10 in a transverse series. 



The body rather slender, oblong, laterally compressed, with 

 arched dorsal profile, moderately broad caudal peduncle, the 

 depth 4.4 to 4.5 in length; the head much wider than body, 

 and contained 3.57 to 3.66 times in length; the snout short, 

 convex, 4.6 to 5 times in head, f to | of an eye diameter ; the 

 eyes high up, very close together, 3.4 to 3.5 times in head; the 

 interorbital space very narrow, almost linear ; the mouth nearly 

 vertical, with projecting chin, the posterior angle of maxillary 

 under anterior margin or anterior third of eye; the teeth in 

 four rows in each jaw, those of outer and inner rows enlarged, 



