254 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



5 times in length of head ; the mouth oblique, the maxillary ex- 

 tending to below middle of eye; the teeth of outer series en- 

 larged; the very pointed caudal 0.25 of total length; the first 

 dorsal scarcely exceeds height of body; the rays of second dor- 

 sal equal to first or a little less, increasing in length poste- 

 riorly. 



The color in alcohol grayish brown, clouded with darker; 

 there is a brown spot at base of caudal, another at base of 

 pectoral; the dorsal fins with fine reticulated brownish lines; 

 usually there are three lines under eye, and two longitudinal 

 ones upon jaw and opercle. 



The above description is compiled, as I have had no speci- 

 mens for study. Jordan and Scale had three specimens from 

 the southern coast of Negros. 



125. OXYURICHTHYS VISAYANUS sp. nov. 



Dorsal VI, 1-12; anal I, 13; there are 75 to 80 scales in a 

 longitudinal series and about 25 in a transverse series. 



The strongly compressed elongate body little elevated, the 

 dorsal and ventral profiles but slightly arched, the depth 5 to 

 5.4 times in length; the breadth of head greater than that of 

 body and 1.3 in its depth; this is 1.45 to 1.6 in its length, which 

 is 3.88 to 3.95 times in head and trunk together; the profile 

 is convex, the boldly curved snout 3^ to 3i times in head, and 

 with a median bony hump; the eyes dorsolateral, 4.75 times 

 in head and 1.5 times in snout; the narrow interorbital half 

 an eye diameter in breadth; the posterior angle of maxillary 

 extends to beneath pupil or posterior part of eye; about twenty 

 teeth on each side of upper jaw, in a single row, and three 

 rows in lower jaw, those of the inner one much the largest; 

 the entire head naked and the central part of nape scaleless 

 back to origin of first dorsal; in some specimens the entire 

 predorsal region is almost scaleless, only a few, minute, scat- 

 tered scales being present; on the nuchal ridge is a low, thin, 

 skinny crest; no scales on breast or pectoral bases; the spines 

 of first dorsal have produced tips which sometimes are excessive- 

 ly elongated and threadlike, up to 1.5 times the head for the 

 first and second spines; the second dorsal and anal long, high, 

 increasing in height posteriorly, but the last ray shorter than 

 the two preceding it, when depressed reaching far out on cau- 

 dal, the posterior rays usually shorter than head but sometimes 

 noticeably longer, the anal a little lower than the soft dorsal; 

 the very long, pointed pectoral is longer than head, sometimes 



