GOBIODON 293 



dorsal in shape and height, but is shorter; the rounded caudal 

 only a little shorter than head, and the broad rounded pectoral 

 just a little shorter than caudal; the ventrals slender, delicate, 

 half or nearly half as long as head. 



The color in alcohol uniform pale brown, with a conspicuous 

 blackish brown spot at upper posterior angle of opercle ; a broad, 

 pale yellow band runs along base of both dorsals and anal ; the 

 outer portion of dorsals, anal, and caudal clear, or tinged with 

 dusky. 



Here described from seventeen specimens, 18 to 36 millimeters 

 in length, from Calapan, Mindoro. 



Two specimens, each 31 millimeters long, from Maricaban Is- 

 land, in Verde Passage, Batangas Province, were a beautiful 

 clear orange color when collected. 



Fulvus, tawny or brownish yellow. 



150. GOBIODON HYPSELOPTERUS Bleeker 



PLATE 28, FIG. 2 



Gobiodon hypselopterus BLEEKER, Gobioid. species insulind. novae, Arch. 

 Neerl. Sci. Nat. 10 (1875) 120. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10; anal I, 9; pectoral 19; caudal VII, 15-VII. 



The depth of the naked oblong compressed body 2.6 times 

 in length; the head deep, the dorsal and ventral profiles both 

 strongly convex, 3.4 times in length, its depth a tenth more than 

 its length; the head a little thicker than the trunk, its breadth 

 twice in its own length ; the snout rather broad, blunt, descending 

 steeply, 3.6 times in head, shorter than eye which is very high 

 up and 2.85 times in head; the interorbital contained 1.7 times 

 in eye ; the mouth small, horizontal, the posterior angle of maxil- 

 lary beneath forward third of eye ; four canines on each side of 

 lower jaw; the pores on head conspicuous, more or less elevated, 

 with two rows on margin of preopercle; the first or first and 

 second dorsal spines longer than the others, 0.25 higher than 

 second dorsal and 0.61 of the depth of body; the second dorsal 

 goes a trifle more than twice in depth ; the anal as high as first 

 dorsal and shorter than second dorsal; the caudal bluntly 

 rounded, its length equal to that of head; the broadly rounded 

 pectoral 0.2 longer than head; the small ventral i the length of 

 head. 



The color in alcohol uniform brown, with darker fins; the 

 upper posterior angle of opercle deep black ; two vertical stripes 

 from eye, one from nape to opercle, and one from shoulder above 

 pectoral down across base of fin ; on base of both second dorsal 



