198 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



part of membrane between fifth and sixth dorsal spines; there 

 is a black spot on upper part of base of pectoral ; the dorsals and 

 anal faintly sprinkled with fine brown dots. 



Here described from twenty-seven specimens, collected near 

 the shore at Sitankai, by Alvin Scale; twenty-two are males, 

 ranging in length from 13 to 16.5 millimeters, with an average 

 length of 14.6 millimeters; five are gravid females ready to 

 spawn, four of them 14.5 millimeters in length, the other one 

 15.5 millimeters. In both spawning males and females the belly 

 is protuberant, broad and rounded, while a few males are slen- 

 derer than given in the description. Although not much longer 

 than the sinarapan (Mistichthys luzonensis Smith) of Lake 

 Buhi, this tiny marine goby is very much bulkier and, even when 

 of the same length, is a much larger fish. 



Pusillus, very little. 



92. PANDAKA PYGMAEA sp. nov. 



PLATE 15, FIG. 3 



Dorsal VI, 1-6 or 7; anal I, 5; there are 22 scales in a lon- 

 gitudinal series and 6 in a transverse series. 



The body moderately elongate, robust, wedge-shaped when 

 viewed from above, the males comparatively slender, the dorsal 

 and ventral profiles nearly straight; the females much stouter, 

 the dorsal profile little curved, the belly protuberant and the 

 ventral outline strongly arched, the depth 4 to 4.8 in length, in 

 males 5 to 5.6 ; the head large, blunt, the upper and lower profiles 

 converging and pointed when viewed from the side, 3.25 to 3.36 

 times in length in females, 3 times in males; the head much 

 broader than deep, the depth 0.6 of the breadth ; the snout very 

 short, broad, rounded, 6 to 6.6 times in head and 2 to 2.4 times 

 in eye; the large, full eyes lateral, 2.5 to 3.2 times in head; 

 the mouth very oblique, the lower jaw and chin projecting, the 

 posterior angle of maxillary extending beneath anterior part of 

 eye or to middle of pupil ; there are two rows of teeth in each 

 jaw, the outer one in upper jaw larger and more widely spaced, 

 the inner row very minute, like the teeth of a microscopic saw ; 

 the first dorsal low, much in advance of second dorsal, not reach- 

 ing second dorsal when depressed, the longest spine 1.25 times 

 in depth, and 1.5 times in head; the second dorsal and anal are 

 very low and extend not more than halfway to base of caudal, 

 the longest rays 0.75 the height of first dorsal; the depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2.2 of its own length and 2 to 2.5 times in depth ; 



