AMBLYGOBIUS 233 



of maxillary reaching front margin of eye; there are two rows 

 of teeth in upper jaw, the inner one some distance behind the 

 much larger outer one; the lower jaw has three rows of teeth, 

 the outer one larger than the others, with a stout, curved ca- 

 nine on each side; the nape covered with very fine scales which 

 extend forward nearly to eyes; the rest of the head entirely 

 naked, with crossrows of very fine tubercles on opercles and 

 nape; a large pore lies on inner side of each anterior nostril, 

 and two similar ones are on midline of interorbital space ; begin- 

 ning immediately behind eye is a row of five large pores in 

 the supraopercular groove and a row of three on posterior 

 margin of preopercle; some of the tips of first dorsal spines are 

 more or less elongated, but there is much individual variation; 

 the second dorsal and anal low, similar in outline, their pos- 

 terior rays reaching caudal; the broad, rounded pectoral and 

 caudal approximately of the same length and equal or nearly 

 equal the length of head; the ventrals large but shorter than 

 pectoral. 



In life the body is yellowish above, pearly beneath; there 

 are five to eight brownish violet crossbars over back to middle 

 of sides, the posterior ones very broad and extending nearly 

 to anal; a blue-edged, brownish violet band encircles snout and 

 passes through eye back as far as beneath middle of first dorsal, 

 widest posteriorly; a similar band extends across opercle and 

 terminates in a large spot on base of pectoral; on preopercle 

 is a similar narrow bar running diagonally downward and for- 

 ward; on the nape is a double row of circular, dark brown, 

 blue-edged ocelli ; the dorsal fins spotted with pearly white with 

 a violet marginal band; the anal has a similar margin; the 

 caudal has a brown spot on upper part of its base. 



Alcoholic specimens pale brownish, with the brownish violet 

 markings becoming blackish, and the blue edgings and spots 

 becoming pearl white. 



Here described from twelve specimens, 48 to 84 millimeters 

 long, from the following localities: Polillo; Busuanga; Bantayan 

 Islands; Canigao Island, Leyte Province; Balabac. The speci- 

 men from Balabac is the smallest and is referred here with some 

 doubt ; it is much faded and is somewhat aberrant. 



Since the above was written I received four specimens, 38 to 

 65 millimeters in length, from Inabanga, Bohol. 



This species was collected at Paracale by Jagor, and Jordan 

 and Scale listed it among the fishes collected by Bashford Dean 

 on the coast of southern Negros. 



