190 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



They range in length from 26 to 56 millimeters. 



This species has been previously reported from Aparri by 

 Jordan and Richardson. It was described originally from Ma- 

 dura. It is close to C. criniger but is readily distinguished by 

 its protruding lower jaw, well-developed canines which are 

 prominent even in very small specimens, the different scalation, 

 and the somewhat different color markings. 



87. RHINOGOBIUS MULT1FASCIATUS sp. nov. 



PLATE 14, FIG. 1 



Dorsal VI, 1-9 ; anal I, 9 ; there are 28 scales in a longitudinal 

 series and 10 in a transverse series. 



The body moderately full and rounded anteriorly, laterally 

 compressed on caudal peduncle ; the dorsal profile gently arched ; 

 the depth 3.8 to 4 times in length ; the head of moderate size, and 

 contained 3.45 to 3.55 times in length; the boldly convex snout 

 rather broad and rounded at tip, 3.4 to 3.75 in head; the eyes 

 high up, dorsolateral in position, oblique, equal to or 0.875 as 

 long as snout; the interorbital space varies from 0.25 to 0.5 an 

 eye diameter; the mouth moderately oblique, with equal jaws, 

 the posterior angle of maxillary extending to beneath front 

 margin of eye; the teeth of outer row in upper jaw slender, 

 sharp-pointed, enlarged ; behind this a band of about three rows 

 of minute teeth ; the lower jaw has a short row of enlarged teeth 

 in front, ending in a pair of lateral canines curved backward; 

 behind this is a band of four or five rows of minute teeth; 

 the body covered with large ctenoid scales, which become much 

 smaller above base of pectoral; the full rounded nape usually 

 naked as far as posterior margin of opercles, with a naked cen- 

 tral portion extending back as far as first dorsal; the breast 

 covered with large cycloid scales; the depth of caudal peduncle 

 from 2.3 to 2.5 times in head and 1.5 times in its own length; 

 the first dorsal small, the tips of the spines extended but little 

 beyond the membrane; the longest spines from 1.65 to 1.85 times 

 in head and about 1.5 times in depth; their tips may or may not 

 reach origin of second dorsal when depressed ; the second dorsal 

 and anal approximately equal the longest spines of first dorsal 

 in height, their posterior rays not reaching caudal when de- 

 pressed; the caudal subtruncate or round pointed, its length 

 equal to greatest depth of body; the pectorals and ventrals are 

 of the same length, about | of depth, and may extend to anus ; 

 the anal papilla inconspicuous, slender and pointed in males, 

 and very short, thick, and rounded in females. 



