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into two by vermiculate pale lines ; under the first dorsal a very 

 dark, broad, saddlelike crossband and two smaller, lighter ones 

 under second dorsal; a blackish brown spot extends from eye 

 to upper jaw ; beneath eye is a broad, irregular, vaguely defined 

 brown mark extending down behind mouth ; a wide diagonal dark 

 brown or blackish bar extends from shoulder downward across 

 opercle to lower posterior margin of preopercle; the upper half 

 or two-thirds of body irregularly blotched with dark brown 

 spots ; the upper part of eye covered by a blackish brown mark ; 

 the first dorsal has two rows of elongate blackish spots, its 

 elongate tips black; the second dorsal has four or five rows of 

 black spots running diagonally downward and backward; the 

 anal clear with a black margin; the caudal crossbarred by nu- 

 merous rows of small black spots; the pectoral has a couple of 

 brown spots on its base; the ventrals are blackish. 



The Bureau of Science collection contains specimens as fol- 

 lows, ranging from 32 to 95 millimeters in length: 



Buguey River, Mission, Caga- Dumaguete, Negros, 1. 



yan Province, 5. Bantayan, 3. 



Laguna de Bay, 7. Cebu, Cebu, 19. 



Pasay, Rizal Province, 1. Cabalian, Leyte, 1. 



Balayan Bay, Batangas Prov- Borongan, Samar, 2. 



ince, 1. Cagayan, Misamis Province, 



Puerto Galera, Mindoro, 2 (in Mindanao, 6. 



bad condition). Balabac, 12. 



Unisan, Tayabas, 8. Spring, Buan Island, Sulu Prov- 



Capiz, Panay, 1. ince, 1. 

 Iloilo, Panay, 6. 



This remarkably handsome goby, so distinct from all its con- 

 geners by reason of its naked head and nape and its striking 

 markings, has been previously recorded from the Philippines 

 from Aparri, Manila, Cavite, and Panay. It occurs from Zanzi- 

 bar to the East Indies and the northwest coast of Australia. 



While it may be the Gobius nebulosus of Forskal, there is not 

 enough detail in his description to convince me that his species 

 is the same as friniger. 



The people at Mission, near Buguey, Cagayan Province, say 

 that the flesh of this goby is poisonous. 



89. RHINOGOBIUS SULUENSIS sp. nov. 



PLATE 14, FIG. 3 



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

 tudinal series and 9 in a transverse series. 



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