PANDAKA 197 



91. PANDAKA PUSILLA sp. nov. 



PLATE 15, PIGS. 1 AND 2 



Dorsal VI, 1-6; anal I, 6; there are 22 to 24 scales in a 

 longitudinal series and 7 or 8 in a transverse series. 



The body stout, the sides of posterior half strongly com- 

 pressed, the dorsal profile arched, the depth 3.6 to 4.1 in length ; 

 the large head 3.1 to 3.5 times in length, its breadth a little 

 greater than its depth and about 0.75 of its own length; the 

 convex, broad, rounded snout a fourth of head and shorter than 

 eye, which is placed very high up on the side, its superior margin 

 flush with or projecting above the profile, 3 to 3.3 times in head ; 

 the distance from tip of snout to posterior margin of eye equals 

 or slightly exceeds the postorbital region of head ; the broad, flat, 

 interorbital space usually equals diameter of eye; the mouth 

 strongly oblique, the lower jaw projecting, the posterior angle 

 of maxillary extending beneath anterior third of eye; the teeth 

 in upper jaw in three rows, an outer row of enlarged, slender, 

 incurved teeth, the others minute; the lower jaw has two rows 

 of teeth about equal in size, not so large as outer row in upper 

 jaw ; the body covered with firm ctenoid scales of nearly uniform 

 size; the head, nape back to first dorsal, pectoral bases, and 

 breast naked; the dorsals well separated, the first or first and 

 second spines elongated; in males they are very long, often 

 extending beyond axil of second dorsal when depressed, or 2.3 

 times in total length; in females the first spine of first dorsal 

 is elevated but never reaches beyond base of first ray of second 

 dorsal when depressed, or about 3.7 times in total length; the 

 second dorsal and anal of approximately equal height and shape, 

 the posterior rays not elongated and falling far short of caudal 

 when depressed, the longest rays 5 to 6 times in length or about 

 the length of head ; the caudal broad, bluntly rounded, 0.7 as 

 long as head; the pectoral broad, rounded, 0.7 to 0.8 as long as 

 head; the ventrals elongate, pointed, extending to anal papilla, 

 which in males is long, tapering, pointed, and in females short, 

 thick, and rounded. 



The color in alcohol nearly uniform yellowish brown, with 

 small, blackish brown dots sprinkled over entire body; careful 

 inspection from above shows them to be arranged in four broad 

 transverse bars over back ; a large red-brown quadrangular spot 

 between and behind eyes ; a large black spot at base of caudal ; 

 a smaller black spot on base of anal and two others on underside 

 of caudal peduncle ; in males there is a large black spot on basal 



