RHINOGOBIUS 179 



naked preopercles and opercles marked by a few rows and 

 crossrows of minute papillae ; pores present on head as described 

 under D. viridi-punctatus ; the scales on nape are small, cycloid, 

 and do not extend to eyes, which have a bare scaleless area for 

 some distance behind them; the depth of caudal peduncle is 2 

 to 2J times in head; the first dorsal low, with short threadlike 

 tips to spines; the dorsal and anal similar in outline, the base 

 of anal shorter than that of dorsal ; the posterior rays of dorsal 

 longer than those of anal and reaching base of caudal when 

 depressed; the caudal rounded and a trifle shorter than head; 

 the pectoral broad, round pointed, and longer than ventrals, 

 which do not reach anus. 



The color of one old alcoholic specimen is brown with indis- 

 tinct darker crossbands on back and sides, small dark brown 

 spots on dorsal region and anteriorly, and pale centers to the 

 scales on the sides, especially posteriorly, these forming longi- 

 tudinal rows; the caudal crossbarred with rows of brown spots 

 and the ventrals blackish. 



Another specimen is a bluish brown; the first dorsal has 

 a large blackish brown spot on its upper part between third 

 and fourth spines; the other fins brown, with darker brown 

 rays, the base of pectorals blackish brown. 



Here described from two specimens, one 40 millimeters long, 

 collected at Malabon, a town on Manila Bay just north of the 

 City of Manila; and the other, 30 millimeters long, from Ma- 

 riveles, at the entrance to Manila Bay. Another excellent 

 specimen, 39 millimeters long, is without locality or other data. 



The type was collected by Dr. Bashford Dean in southern 

 Negros. 



I place here also five small specimens in very bad condition, 

 22 to 34 millimeters in length, collected at Kanoan, Siquijor, 

 in 1907, by Mr. Alvin Scale. 



80. RHINOGOBIUS VIRIDI-PUNCTATUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



PLATE 30, PIG. 1 



Gobius viridi-punctatus CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 

 12 (1837) 47; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 24; DAY, 

 Fishes of India (1878) 286, pi. 59, fig. 5, pi. 61, fig. 4, and pi. 63, 

 fig. 4. 



Panay Visayan name, paid. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10; anal I, 9 or 8; there are 34 to 38 scales in 

 a longitudinal series and 12 in a transverse series ; there are 30 

 to 32 scales before the first dorsal. 



