290 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



less than snout, 3f to 5 times in head; the interorbital space 

 narrow, about 3 times in eye; the large oblique mouth terminal, 

 with equal jaws, the upper lip protractile, the posterior angle 

 of maxillary free and produced backward, reaching to posterior 

 margin of eye or nearly an eye diameter beyond; the tongue 

 notched ; the teeth slender, erect, pointed, in three rows in each 

 jaw, the outer row in lower jaw short with widely spaced teeth, 

 the outer row in upper jaw shorter than the other two; the 

 dorsals well separated, the first dorsal small, low, the longest 

 spines 2.25 to 2.5 times in depth ; the second dorsal and anal low, 

 equal in height, their longest rays 1.6 to 2 times in depth; the pec- 

 torals and ventrals are equal in length, with pointed tips, and 

 equal or exceed the length of head ; the f renum broad and strong, 

 the ventrals more or less tubulate; the caudal peduncle slender, 

 its depth about 3 times in that of body; the caudal truncate, 

 shorter than head, 4.3 to 4.8 times in length ; the anal papilla very 

 short and blunt. 



The color in alcohol whitish with three broad, brown crossbars 

 over back, running diagonally forward down sides to belly ; the 

 first under first dorsal, the second under second dorsal, and the 

 third immediately behind second dorsal ; a wide, brown blotch or 

 crossband in front of first dorsal, above base of pectoral ; a series 

 of brown or black reticulations on lower half of body behind 

 pectoral; between all these bands the body is sprinkled with 

 minute brown specks, leaving the ground color as a series of 

 white spots and dots; the cheeks and the region behind eyes 

 more or less dotted with small, dark brown spots; the first 

 dorsal marked by two brown to black longitudinal bands or 

 two or three rows of deep brown spots ; the second dorsal cross- 

 barred by four rows of dark brown spots ; on base of caudal is 

 a white spot surrounded by a broad, dark brown band; behind 

 this are two large white spots near upper and lower margins; 

 the remainder of fin crossbarred by large brown spots ; the pec- 

 toral crossbarred by three or four rows of large brown spots; 

 the ventrals and anal colorless. 



This strikingly beautiful little goby is here described from ten 

 specimens, 24 to 40 millimeters in length, collected by me in 

 March in Dumaguete River, Oriental Negros. The clear b' ;i - 

 liant coloration of this plump little fish harmonizes exactly \,ith 

 the gravel and sand in which it lies. 



I have recently received thirty-eight specimens, 11 to 36 milli- 

 meters in diameter, from Bangar, La Union Province, Luzon. 

 All those over 30 millimeters in length were ready to spawn at 



