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This species was previously reported from Aparri, Luzon, by 

 Jordan and Richardson. It was obtained in Samoa by David 

 Starr Jordan, and was originally collected in Java by Kuhl and 

 Van Hasselt, whose specimen was described by Cuvier and Val- 

 enciennes. 



My specimens are unmistakably the same fish as that show*i 

 in Jordan and Scale's figure 94, but the upper lip in their figure 

 has been extended so that the snout is unnaturally long; the 

 dorsal fins are unlike those of our specimens in shape, and the 

 caudal in their figure is greatly elongated and lanceolate. This 

 is probably correct for some specimens, since Weber gives the 

 shape as lanceolate. No author mentions the spots on head 

 and sides, but they are shown, though poorly, in the figure of 

 the Samoan example. 



Genus 43. CHONOPHORUS Poey 



Chonophorus POEY, Poissons de Cuba 2 (1860) 274 (replaces Awaous, 



issued a few days later). 

 Awaous STEINDACHNER, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 42 (1860) 



289; BLEEKER, Esq. Syst. Nat. Gobioides, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat. 9 



(1874) 320. 



This group is separated from its congeners by the presence of 

 two or more small fleshy flaps, or papillae, on the inner margin 

 of the shoulder girdle, and by the peculiar physiognomy of some 

 species. 



The robust body elongate, strongly compressed laterally, and 

 covered with 40 to 80 ctenoid scales in longitudinal series, 50 

 to 60 in Philippine species; they become cycloid and smaller on 

 the nape, extending forward to eyes, from which they are 

 separated by a mucus channel; the upper part of opercles, the 

 posterior part of preopercles, and the base of pectorals covered 

 with small cycloid scales; the head is large, with a long, convex 

 snout, a thick, protractile upper lip, a rather small oblique mouth, 

 and is naked except as above stated; three or more rows of 

 sharp pointed subequal teeth form a band in each jaw, without 

 canines, those of outer row erect and not longer than the others 

 in most species, though in some foreign representatives of the 

 genus the outer row may be enlarged ; the tongue broad, thick, 

 mostly adnate, with convex or subtruncate tip ; the gill openings 

 wide but not extended forward, restricted below, the isthmus 

 wide, with three fleshy flaps (in our species) on inner edge of 

 shoulder girdle; the dorsals well separated, the tips of first 

 dorsal often greatly elongated and threadlike ; the second dorsal 

 and anal similar in shape, the posterior rays more or less 



