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anal much shorter, but its longest rays are higher than those 

 of second dorsal and extend to or upon caudal when depressed; 

 the depth of caudal peduncle 3.2 to 3.5 times in head ; the caudal 

 broad, with round pointed tip, its length a little more than 

 that of head; the pectorals are broad and rounded, and extend 

 back as far as posterior extremity of first dorsal ; the broad 

 ventrals reach the small triangular anal papilla. 



In alcohol brown or yellowish brown, paler on throat 

 and belly ; the sides have four or five broad, dark brown, vertical 

 bands, the first under first dorsal, the last at base of caudal; 

 a short, broad, dark brown crossband on nape between pre- 

 opercles and another in front of first dorsal above pectoral base ; 

 the opercles and preopercles sprinkled with small pearly white 

 spots (said to be bright blue in life) ; the first dorsal has an 

 elongated black spot on lower part of membrane between first 

 and second spines; the second dorsal crossbarred by two rows 

 of large dark spots on membrane between rays; the anal has 

 a dark brown margin; the upper half of caudal crossbarred 

 by alternate rows of dark brown and white spots; the ventral 

 rays dark. 



This strongly marked species is common about the rocky 

 coasts of southern Japan and China. Here described from sev- 

 eral specimens, from 80 to 98 millimeters in length, obtained 

 at Hongkong by Scale, and a fine specimen from Amoy, collected 

 by Light. 



It may be expected along the western coast of northern Luzon. 



117. CRYPTOCENTRUS FONTANESII (Bleeker) 



Gobius fontanesii BLEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 3 (1852) 764; GiJN- 



THER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 74. 

 Gobius (Cryptocentrus) fontanesii WEBER, Fische Siboga Exped. 



(1913) 474. 

 Oxyurichtus fontanesii FOWLER and BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



62 (1922) 72. 



Dorsal VI, 1-15; anal I, 16; there are 90 to 104 scales in a 

 longitudinal series, about 27 in a transverse series, and 30 be- 

 fore first dorsal. 



The body slender, elongate, laterally compressed, the depth 

 6.3, the head 3.6 times in length; the depth of head twice in 

 its length; the convex, obtuse snout shorter than eye, 4.3 times 

 in head; the eye 4.8 times, the maxillary 2.4 in head, its pos- 

 terior extremity below middle of eye; the eyes very close to- 

 gether, high up, the interorbital 2.4 times in eye; the mouth 

 oblique, the outer teeth enlarged; one to four lateral canines 



