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extend beneath its anterior margin ; there is a large pore behind 

 eye at origin of supraopercular groove ; the scales on nape much 

 smaller than those on sides; the cheeks and opercles swollen, 

 smooth, and scaleless except for a few tiny scales at upper 

 inner angle of opercle; the first dorsal spines have filiform 

 tips which may be much elongated and equal to greatest depth 

 of body; the second dorsal and anal similar in outline, the 

 posterior rays longest, equal to or greater than the depth beneath 

 and extending to caudal, which is elongate, moderately pointed, 

 2.5 to 2.8 times in length; the ventrals large with a very broad 

 frenum, and equal in length to the wide, rounded pectoral. 



The color in alcohol varies from pale greenish or nearly white 

 to pale or yellow-brown, with ten to twelve narrow dark brown 

 or blackish crossbars on each side and a small vertical dark 

 brown streak on each scale on upper half of body ; a broad, dark 

 brown bar extends from eye to lower edge of preopercle ; a short 

 dark bar on upper part of base of pectoral ; the dorsals marked 

 with irregular dark crosslines. 



I have examined seventy-one specimens, ranging in length 

 from 32 to 84 millimeters, from the following localities : 



Limbones Cove, Batangas Prov- Dumarao, Capiz Province, Pa- 



ince, Luzon, 1. nay, 1. 



Bigaa and Arimbay Rivers, Al- Lasay, Siquijor Island, 10. 



bay Province, 38. Cagayan, Misamis Province, 



Sibuyan Island, 1. Mindanao, 2. 



San Jose, Antique Province, Pa- Balabac Island, 1. 



nay, 17. 



I also place here four specimens, about 34 millimeters each 

 in length, from Lasay, Siquijor, all in bad condition. 



This handsome species occurs in the fresh-water streams of 

 the Society, Samoan, and Fiji Islands of the South Sea and, is 

 common in the Hawaiian Islands. 



A female specimen, 45 millimeters long, taken in February at 

 San Jose, Antique Province, Panay, was ready to spawn. 



100. CHONOPHORUS LACHRYMOSUS (Peters) 



FRONTISPIECE 



Gobius lachrymose PETERS, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1868) 

 265; MEYER, Ann., Soc. Espana Hist. Nat. 14 (1885) 29. 



Local names, biang tulis, and biang pakiu. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10; anal I, 10; there are from 52 to 55 scales 

 in a longitudinal series, and 12 or 13 in a transverse series; 

 18 or 20 scales before first dorsal. 



