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and anal is a longitudinal stripe ; according to Bleeker all these 

 lines are blue, but they have lost their original color in alcohol. 



Here described from a specimen, 34 millimeters long, collected 

 at Calapan, Mindoro. It has been previously known from Blee- 

 ker's description, based on specimens from the Moluccas. 



I place with the above four specimens, 26 to 35 millimeters 

 in length, collected in November, 1925, from a coral head at 

 Canigaran, near Puerto Princesa, Palawan. The largest two 

 were clear lemon yellow, with dusky yellow fins and pale blue 

 stripes on the head ; the others were dusky yellow, with blackish 

 fins ; on the base of the dorsals and anal was a blue stripe edged 

 with a deep black line above and below. The other color mark- 

 ings and the dentition are as in the Calapan specimens already 

 described. These specimens do not agree in every particular, 

 but are all of the same species. In the two smaller Palawan 

 specimens the first dorsal is lower than the second. 



151. GOBIODON QUINQUESTRIGATUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



Gobius quinquestrigatus CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 



12 (1837) 101. 

 Gobiodon quinquestrigatus BLEEKER, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat. 10 (1875) 



117; WEBER, Fische Siboga Exped. (1913) 454. 

 Gobiodon ceramensis GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 88. 



Daing sahasa, Samal name at Zamboanga. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10 ; anal I, 8 ; pectoral 17. 



The naked body short, deep, much flattened laterally, its 

 depth 2.75 in length; the head deep, with equally convex dorsal 

 and ventral profiles, 3 times or a trifle more in length, the 

 depth a little more or less than length; the head much thicker 

 than trunk, its breadth 1.75 to 1.88 in its own length; the 

 horizontal mouth small, the posterior angle of maxillary ex- 

 tending beneath the forward half or center of eye; the two 

 canines in lower jaw very small; the snout very convex, 3.5 

 to 3.75 in head; the eye rather small, high up, equal to snout, 

 the convex interorbital equal to or 0.75 of an eye diameter ; the 

 pores on head very conspicuous; the low dorsals continuous, 

 the first dorsal 0.75 as high as second, which goes twice in 

 depth; the first or first and second spines of first dorsal not 

 higher than the rest; the anal as high as second dorsal but 

 shorter; the length of the rounded caudal equals the pectoral 

 and is f of head. 



The color in alcohol brown or yellowish brown, the head 

 paler, becoming whitish on throat ; there are five nearly vertical 



