RHINOGOBIUS 181 



there are several smaller ones on the opercle and preopercle, 

 while many of the lateral scales have a central spot of the same 

 color; the anal has a basal green band and the second dorsal 

 and caudal each a submarginal one, the tips of the latter fins 

 lavender; the eye is blue. 



In alcohol the color varies from dusky gray and dusky olive 

 green above and whitish below, to yellowish brown or dark 

 brown above and pale yellowish below; the beautiful spots and 

 fin markings all disappear, leaving traces of a lateral band of 

 dark blotches in some specimens, and in most specimens many 

 of the lateral scales have a white spot; the fins vary from 

 dusky to uniform brown, the caudal often with a few crossrows 

 of dark spots. 



Here described from specimens, 44 to 117 millimeters long, 

 from the following localities: 



Malabon, Rizal Province, 5. Dumangas, Iloilo Province, 6. 



Manila market, 6. Villa, Iloilo Province, 1. 



Calapan, Mindoro, 1. Buena Vista, Guimaras, 1. 



Capiz, Panay, 1. Navalas, Guimaras, 2. 



Molo, Iloilo Province (specimen Kanoan, Siquijor, 2. 

 aberrant, faded), 1. 



This very handsome goby, originally described from Bombay, 

 ranges eastward through the East Indian Archipelago. 



Gobius chlorostigma Bleeker, from Java, is probably the same 

 species. 



81. RHINOGOBIUS DECORATUS sp. nov. 



PLATE 13, FIG. 3 



Dorsal VI, 1-8 ; anal I, 8 ; there are 26 to 28 scales in a longi- 

 tudinal series, 8 or 9 in a transverse series, and 6 or 8 before the 

 first dorsal. 



The elongate slender body subcylindrical anteriorly, the pos- 

 terior two-thirds laterally compressed, the depth 5 to 5.8 times 

 in length; the head rather small, gently convex and somewhat 

 pointed, 3.6 to 3.8 times in length ; the snout convex, rounded, 

 protuberant, 3.4 to 4 times in head ; the eyes very high up, dorso- 

 lateral and looking up as well as sideways, equal to snout; the 

 interorbital space very narrow, about 4 times in eye ; the mouth 

 very low down, nearly horizontal, the upper lip thick, protrac- 

 tile, the lower jaw inferior, the posterior angle of maxillary 

 beneath middle of eye; in upper jaw an outer row of slightly 

 enlarged teeth, and behind it two rows of minute teeth ; in lower 

 jaw a band of four rows of minute teeth, with a pair of lateral 

 canines, nearly horizontal and curved backward; the body 



