RHINOGOBIUS 191 



The color in alcohol yellowish gray, with ten to fourteen nar- 

 row vertical dark brown crossbands which become black lines 

 on belly; before first dorsal are two short, broad crossbands; 

 each scale on upper half marked by small dark brown or umber 

 spots, which form longitudinal rows on the sides; the naked top 

 of snout and head marked by numerous irregular spots of umber ; 

 a black or dark brown spot beneath eye between it and upper 

 lip; the first dorsal spine spotted alternately with black and 

 white ; there is a black or dark brown transverse bar on lower 

 part of first dorsal, ending posteriorly in a large black spot; 

 sometimes there is a second narrow dark bar above the first 

 one ; the second dorsal crossbarred with about four rows of very 

 dark spots; the membranes of anal more or less blackish, the 

 rays white ; the caudal has two rather large basal spots forming 

 an irregular crossband and about six crossbars of dark brown 

 spots, the posterior portion clear; the pectorals faintly cross- 

 barred by rows of dark spots, with a dark spot on upper por- 

 tion of base; the ventrals blackish. 



Here described from 65 specimens, 25 to 54 millimeters in 

 length, collected in Iloilo, July 23, 1925. Specimens over 40 

 millimeters long are sexually mature and would apparently 

 spawn early in August, as many of the females when collected 

 were almost ready to spawn. These specimens came from the 

 mouth of Jaro River, where the water is salt. 



88. RHINOGOBIUS CRINIGER (Cnvier and Valenciennes) 



PLATE 14, FIG. 2 



Gobius criniger CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 12 (1837) 



62; RICHARDSON, Ichthyology, Voy. Erebus & Terror (1844) 2, pi. 



1, figs. 3 and 4; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 29; 



DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 288, pi. 62, fig. 2. 



Ctenogobius criniger BLEEKER, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat. 13 (1878) 54. 

 ? Gobius nebulosus FORSKAL, Descrip. Anim. 24 (1775) ; CUVIER and 



VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 12 (1837) 63. 

 Rhinogobius nebulosus JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 26 



(1907) 41; JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 27 (1908) 



276. 

 Rhinogobius lungi JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 26 (1907) 



41, fig. 13. 



Ibanag name, laginlagen. 



Dorsal VI, 1-9 ; anal I, 9 ; there are 28 to 30 scales in a longi- 

 tudinal series and 12 in a transverse series. 



The body wedge-shaped, robust anteriorly, the compressed 

 sides tapering rapidly back to caudal peduncle, the depth 4 to 



