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This easily recognized species has heretofore been known only 

 from Madras, India, and the coasts of China and southern Japan. 



Since writing the above I have obtained three specimens, 73 

 to 86 millimeters in length, dredged from Manila Bay near San 

 Nicolas lighthouse, at a depth of about 25 fathoms. 



Genus 56. LOPHIOGOBIUS Gunther 



Lophiogobius GUNTHER, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. IV 12 (1873) 241. 



Body rather elongate, covered with 36 to 40 scales of moderate 

 size, larger posteriorly, the caudal peduncle very slender; the 

 head large, depressed, the mouth wide, oblique, the lower jaw 

 large, prominent, projecting; the teeth of outer row in each jaw 

 rather large, subhorizontal, projecting, widely spaced, entirely 

 exposed, outside the thin lips; some distance within outer row 

 is another row of much smaller teeth pointing inward ; the tongue 

 large, broad, the tip nearly truncate; the palate smooth; the 

 sides of head papillate across cheeks, and an extraordinary 

 growth of barbels over the flat undersurface of head from chin 

 back to posterior margin of preopercle and running up the latter ; 

 the dorsals comparatively far apart; the ventrals not adherent 

 to belly; the gill openings wide, the isthmus narrow; branchios- 

 tegals 5. Dorsal VII, 1-15 or 16. 



Gunther stated that the first spine of the dorsal is "stiff and 

 pungent." I do not find it so, it being merely a little less flexible 

 than the others, but otherwise similar. Gunther fails to men- 

 tion the remarkable development of barbels. I have seen no 

 specimens other than my own; there can be no doubt of their 

 belonging to this peculiar genus, which is known only from 

 the coasts of China and southern Manchuria. 



136. LOPHIOGOBIUS OCELLICAUDA Gunther 



PLATE 22, PIG. 1 



Lophiogobius ocellicauda GUNTHER, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. IV 12 

 (1873) 241; EVERMANN and SHAW, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. IV 16 

 (1927) 120. 



Ranulma fimbriidens JORDAN and STARKS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 31 

 (1906) 523, fig. 3. 



Dorsal VII, 1-15 or 16 ; anal- 1, 16 or 17 ; there are 38 to 40 

 scales in a -longitudinal series, 12 in a transverse series, and 

 18 or 20 before first dorsal. 



The long, low, slender body laterally compressed, the posterior 

 half very slender and low, the depth just before first dorsal 

 6.3 to 6.7 times, the depth of caudal peduncle 19.6 to 20 

 limes in length ; the head very large, broad, flat, depressed, tad- 



