218 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



Karoan, Cagayan Province, 4. Arimbay River, Legaspi, Albay 



Nayon, Ifugao Subprovince, 1. Province, 24. 



Chico River, Calbayan, Kalinga Libog River, Albay Province, 7. 



Subprovince, 8. Mangso River, Albay Province, 



Saltan River, Limos, Kalinga 13. 



Subprovince, 3. Yawa River, Albay Province, 1. 



Kabulig River, Casiguran, Ta- Baco, Mindoro, 9. 



yabas Province, 1. San Jose, Antique Province, Pa- 



Pansipit River, Batangas Prov- nay, 6. 



ince, 2. Amoy, China, 10. 

 Bigaa River, Legaspi, Albay 



Province, 81. 



This species was described by Heckel from Philippine material 

 and was listed by Boulenger from fresh water in Palawan. 



Originally the species was described from Java under three 

 separate names by Bleeker but he afterward united them under 

 the name Gobius grammepomus. It has been found from the 

 Andamans, Ceylon, and Madras eastward to Celebes, Buru, and 

 Amboina, usually occurring in rivers. All my Philippine spec- 

 imens are from swift gravelly streams. 



Chonophorus melanocephalus is very close to C. ocellaris, but 

 there is no difficulty in separating them and they are apparently 

 both valid species, although the first named presents a wide range 

 of variation, 



102. CHONOPHORUS OCELLARIS (Broussonet) 



PLATE 17, FIG. 2 



Gobius ocellaris BROUSSONET, Cop. Encycl. Meth., Dec. Ichthy. (1782) 

 fig. 142; CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 12 (1837) 

 74; GiiNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 64; Fische der Siidsee 

 2 (1876) 177, pi. 108, fig. C. 



Awaous ocellaris BLEEKER, Esq. Syst. Nat. Gobioides, Arch. Neerl. 

 Sci. Nat. 9 (1874) 320; JORDAN and SEALE, Fishes of Samoa, Bull. 

 Bur. Fisheries 25 (1906) 405; JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. Bur. 

 Fisheries 27 (1908) 277. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10; anal I, 10; scales in a lateral series 55, in a 

 transverse series 15; there are from 16 to 20 scales before the 

 first dorsal. 



The wedge-shaped body plump and rounded, its width equal to 

 its depth, which is 4.2 to 4.4 in length ; the head large, 3 to 3.3 

 times in length, with a rather long, convex, abruptly descend- 

 ing snout which is from 2.3 to 2.5 times. in head; the snout 

 equals or is a trifle shorter than postorbital length of head; 

 the rather small eyes contained from 4.8 to 5& times in head 

 and 2 to 2 times in snout; the interorbital space equal to or 

 a little less than an eye diameter; the upper jaw projects beyond 



