RHINOGOBIUS 195 



clear, with a large, dark brown spot on upper part of its base; 

 the ventrals blackish, the margins paler. 



Here described from six specimens, 25 to 35 millimeters in 

 length, collected by me at Bungau, Sulu Province. This hand- 

 some little fish is close to R. criniger, but presents marked 

 differences. 



Suluensis, from Sulu. 



90. RHINOGOBIUS NEOPHYTUS (Giinther) 



PLATE 14, FIG. 4 



Gobius neophytus GUNTHER, Fische der Siidsee 2 (1875) 174, pi. 108, 



fig. E. 

 Rhinogobius neophytus JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 25 



(1906) 400, pi. 37, fig. 2. 



Dorsal. VI, 1-9 ; anal I, 8 ; there are 23 or 24 scales in a lateral 

 series and 7 in a transverse series. 



The body slender, elongate, narrowed dorsally, the ventral line 

 but little curved, the back arched, the depth 4.85 in length ; the 

 head elongate, the upper profile convex, with long and pointed" 

 snout, imparting a very characteristic appearance, 3.2 times in 

 length ; the snout 3 times in head ; the eyes very high up, dorso- 

 lateral, large, protuberant, the upper margin extending above 

 the profile, equal to snout, very close together so that the inter- 

 orbital space is linear; the mouth oblique, with broad upper 

 lip and projecting lower jaw, the posterior angle of maxillary 

 barely extending back to a point beneath front margin of eye; 

 there is a band of four rows of very small, slender, pointed teeth 

 in each jaw, the outer row larger than the others; the head 

 entirely naked, as is the nape back to first dorsal; the rest of 

 the body, including pectoral bases and breast, covered with large 

 ctenoid scales loosely attached and easily lost; the dorsals well 

 separated, the first spine of first dorsal longest, equal to depth ; 

 the second dorsal and anal of the same shape and height, next 

 to the last ray longest and equal to 0.9 of the depth, falling 

 much short of caudal when depresed; the caudal peduncle long, 

 slender, its depth 2.25 times in its own length; the bluntly 

 rounded caudal a trifle shorter than head; the large pointed 

 pectoral equals caudal in length and extends to a point over 

 origin of third anal ray ; the ventrals 0.8 as long as head, their 

 tip touching origin of anal. 



The color in alcohol whitish, with numerous scattered dusky 

 spots more or less definitely arranged in rows over head and 

 body, a median longitudinal row of larger spots, ending at base 



