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The color in alcohol uniform reddish brown with three choc- 

 olate brown longitudinal stripes on each side; the first extends 

 from above front of eye back on side of nape to fourth or fifth 

 ray of second dorsal and is then continued on fin as a basal 

 bar; the second passes around snout on upper lip, through eye, 

 and continues back with a slight upward slant to top of caudal 

 peduncle and on to upper part of caudal fin; the third passes 

 around chin to corner of mouth, slants upward across cheek 

 to base of pectoral where it apparently ends in a large spot, 

 but continues on from axil of pectoral as a broad lateral stripe 

 to base of caudal ; a diagonal dark stripe on lower part of cau- 

 dal ; the cheek band bordered above and below by rows of large 

 and more or less circular pearly spots; a dark blotch between 

 tips of fourth and fifth dorsal spines. 



Here described from the type, 52 millimeters long, collected 

 by me under the wharf at Bungau, Sulu Province. The Bureau 

 of Science collection also contains a specimen, 35 millimeters 

 long, in poor condition, collected by Alvin Scale at Caldera Bay, 

 Mindanao. 



Linki, in tribute to Capt. Francis Link, of Jolo, for his inde- 

 fatigable labors in advancing our knowledge of the Sulu Ar- 

 chipelago, and its fauna, flora, and people. 



111. AMBLYGOBIUS BYNOENSIS (Richardson) 



PLATE 19, FIG. 1 



Gobius bynoensis RICHARDSON, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fishes 

 (1844-1848) 1, pi. 1, figs. 1 and 2; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. 

 Mus. 3 (1861) 70; PETERS, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1868) 

 266; DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 284, pi. 61, fig. 3. 



Gobius stenophthalmus SLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 1 (1851) 248, 

 fig. 7. 



Odontogobius bynoensis BLEEKER, Esq. Syst. Nat. Gobioides, Arch. 

 Neerl. Sci. Nat. 9 (1874) 323. 



Amblygobius bynoensis JORDAN and SEALE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 28 (1905) 795. 



Dorsal VI, 1-14 to 16; anal I, 15 to 16; there are 65 to 70 

 scales in a longitudinal series and 26 in a transverse series 

 (not 16 as given by Day). 



The somewhat elongate body laterally and also dorsally com- 

 pressed, the greatest depth behind pectorals and 4 to 4.4 times 

 in length ; the obtusely convex head 3.4 to 3.5 times in length ; 

 the eyes rather large and full, 3.8 to 4.8 times in head and 

 1.2 to 1.8 times in the strongly arched snout, which is 2.8 to 

 3 times in head; the interorbital space equals or nearly equals 

 eye; the mouth terminal, oblique, of moderate size, the angle 



