SICYOPTERUS 313 



margins of caudal, converging and joining middle band at tip, 

 leaving the upper and lower parts of tip clear; a black or dark 

 brown forward-curved band extends from eye to angle of mouth ; 

 a blackish stripe runs around lower margin of snout; the first 

 dorsal uniform dusky brown ; the second dorsal dull dark brown, 

 vaguely crossbarred with darker indistinct spots; the anal 

 blackish or dull brown with a violet blackish* margin ; the pec- 

 torals the color of body, the ventrals pale yellowish. 



Here described from three female and two male specimens, 

 60.5 to 74 millimeters in length, collected at Cabalian, Leyte, 

 May 28, 1921. The largest specimen is a female nearly ready 

 to spawn. 



I place here a specimen, 60 millimeters long, collected in 1909 

 from Cagayan River, Misamis Province, Mindanao, at an al- 

 titude of 250 meters. It has faded to yellowish brown, but the 

 crossbands and caudal markings are very distinct. It agrees 

 with the Leyte specimens in scalation, teeth, lips, and fins. 



Jordan and Richardson had two small specimens, one from 

 Mindoro and one from Sibuyan, which they called S. taeniurus, 

 which is however quite distinct, having but one median cleft 

 on upper lip and having no crossbars but being uniformly 

 colored. 



Extraneus, a stranger. 



160. SICYOPTERUS PANAYENSIS sp. nov. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10; anal I, 10; there are 64 to 66 scales in a 

 longitudinal series, 18 or 20 in a transverse series, and 24 to 26 

 before first dorsal. 



The body low, plump, nearly cyclindrical, below first dorsal 

 its breadth equal to its depth, only caudal peduncle laterally com- 

 pressed, gently convex from first dorsal to tip of snout, the 

 depth 4.6 to 5 times in length; the blunt head rather low, flat 

 above, 4.1 to 4.3 times in length, its breath f to more than 0.9 its 

 length and 0.25 or more greater than its depth; the snout pro- 

 tuberant, bluntly rounded, 2.125 to 2.25 times in head ; the small 

 eyes high up, lateral, 5.5 to 6 times in head, 2.5 to 2.66 times 

 in snout; the broad, flat interorbital equals snout; the low in- 

 ferior mouth almost horizontal, the posterior angle of maxillary 

 beneath pupil ot eye; the upper lip very broad, especially pos- 

 teriorly ; it has no median cleft but has a small, narrow, curved 

 cleft on each side nearer posterior end, of lip than middle ; the 

 margin more or less denticulate-crenate ; the inner side of lip 

 and gum smooth, without papillae or tubercles ; the teeth of upper 



