OXYURICHTHYS 257 



belly or anal ; a broad dusky band, ill defined in most of my 

 specimens, extends along the side to the farther end of caudal 

 peduncle and ends in a large, transverse, blackish blotch; the 

 opercle is covered with irregular pearly spots and blotches and 

 has a wide, dark band running diagonally downward and for- 

 ward ; a more or less well-defined large, semicircular, dark brown 

 blotch on base of pectoral fin ; the teatlike ocular tentacle white ; 

 below eye is a small ill-defined dark patch; the skinny nuchal 

 crest brown ; the first dorsal marked by poorly defined dark cross 

 stripes and wider pale bands, the filiform tips black; the soft 

 dorsal barred by four dark crossbands alternating with lighter; 

 the anal and ventrals dusky lilac; the caudal without markings 

 except in one specimen, which shows that in at least the upper 

 half the membrane was dusky, sprinkled with pearly spots. 



Here described from seven specimens, 84 to 132 millimeters 

 in length, collected by me in the market at Cebu. 



I also place here three specimens, 76 to 105 millimeters in 

 length, collected by Alvin Scale ; one specimen is from Cebu, and 

 two are from Davao, Mindanao. 



I have a specimen, 112 millimeters long, dredged from about 

 25 meters near San Nicolas lighthouse, Manila Bay, and two 

 specimens, 77 and 108 millimeters long, from Calape, Bohol. 



Oculus, eye; mirus, astonishing. 



127. OXYURICHTHYS OPHTHALMONEMA Sleeker 



PLATE 20, FIG. 3 



Gobius ophthalmonema ELEEKER, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 8 (1856-1857) 



208; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 48; MEYER, Ann., 



Soc. Espana Nat. Hist. 14 (1885) 29. 

 Oxyurichthys ophthalmonema BLEEKER, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl. 6 



(1859) 120. 

 Euctenogobius ophthalmonema GUNTHER, Fische der Sudsee 2 (1876- 



1881) 180, pi. Ill, fig. B. 

 Pselaphius ophthalmonemus JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 



25 (1906) 406. 

 Oxyurichthys tentacularis JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 26 



(1907) 45. 

 Gobiichthys tentacularis JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 



27 (1908) 278; SEALE, Philip. Journ. Sci. . D 9 (1914) 76. 



Dorsal VI, 1-1.2; anal I, 13; there are 54 to 56 scales in a 

 lengthwise series, 16 in a transverse series, and 20 to 23 before 

 first dorsal. 



The body elongate, thick, plump, with rounded sides, the 

 greatest thickness 1.3 to 1.6 times in the depth, posteriorly 

 compressed, the dorsal profile nearly straight, the ventral one 



223793 17 



