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c 1 . No ocelli on nape; scales 55 to 60. 



<f. Two longitudinal bands; five dorsal crossbands.. A. perpusillus. 



A. perpusillus buanensis. 



eP. Three longitudinal bands; no crossbands A. linki. 



c*. A double row of circular, blue-edged, brown ocelli on nape; scales 



65 to 70 A. bynoensis. 



a a . Body with crossbands; no longitudinal bands. 



e\ Scales 70; ten or eleven crossbands inclined backward and downward 



at an angle of 70 A. insignis. 



e\ Scales 50 to 55. 

 /*. Nape with two rows of dark red circular spots; crossbands wide 



with narrow blue-black margins... A. phalaena. 



/*. No rows of red spots on nape; crossbands not blue-margined; each 

 scale on side with a pearly spot A. sphynx. 



108. AMBLYGOBIUS INORNATUS ap. nov. 



Dorsal VI, 1-11; anal I, 10; there are 68 scales in a longitudi- 

 nal series. 



The depth of the low elongate body 6.45 times in length ; the 

 head 3.4 times in length, its breadth approximately equal to 

 its depth, 2.2 times in its length ; the narrow blunt snout convex, 

 4.5 times in head; the eyes dorsolateral, oblique, 4.09 times in 

 head, the interorbital very narrow ; the mouth oblique, the lower 

 jaw slightly projecting, the posterior angle of maxillary beneath 

 front margin of pupil; the teeth of upper jaw in three rows, 

 the outer row enlarged; in the lower jaw a short row of en- 

 larged teeth, terminating in a backward-curved canine, followed 

 by three more rows, the teeth of the middle rows minute, those 

 of the innermost row larger than the two middle ones ; the head 

 and nape naked back to first dorsal; the scales on posterior 

 half of body much larger than those on anterior portion; the 

 scales appear cycloid but are really ctenoid, their teeth minute 

 and very fragile; the first dorsal considerably in advance of 

 second, not reaching latter when depressed, the middle rays 

 longest, 2.25 times in head; the second dorsal and anal alike, 

 angulate posteriorly, not reaching caudal when depressed, equal 

 to first dorsal in height; the depth of caudal peduncle about 1.3 

 times in its own length, a trifle more than twice in head; the 

 narrow subtruncate caudal 3.875 times in length and f of head ; 

 the pointed pectoral and ventrals of the same length, 1.5 times 

 in head. 



The color in alcohol uniform brown with an inconspicuous, 

 wide, dark brown band passing back from eye along upper part 

 of side and disappearing beneath origin of second dorsal ; the 

 first dorsal light brown basally, above this a wide, clear, hori- 



