334 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



The color in alcohol yellowish brown with a pinkish red sheen ; 

 in life evidently pink; the sensory pores along the side sur- 

 rounded by blue; the dorsals, anal, and caudal yellow; the pec- 

 torals and ventrals pinkish to yellowish ; the anal papilla orange. 



Here described from three specimens, 168 to 177 millimeters 

 long, dug out of the sandy Pasay beach, Manila Bay. 



A female specimen, 182 millimeters long, collected in the 

 Manila market by Seale, July 20, 1907, is full of eggs. The 

 Bureau of Science collection also contains a small specimen, 85 

 millimeters long, from Lake Naujan, Mindoro. 



This species was recorded from Aparri, Luzon, by Jordan 

 and Richardson. It was first described from the Hugli, at Cal- 

 cutta, and is distributed through the East Indies. 



168. TAENIOIDES GRACILIS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



PLATE 26, FIG. 1 



Amblyopus gracilis CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 12 



(1837) 125; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 134. 

 Gobioides gracilis DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 378. 



Dorsal VI, 1-44 to 51 ; anal I, 41 to 47 ; ,30 pores in a lateral 

 series from posterior angle of nape to base of caudal. 



The elongate, laterally compressed tail 2 to 2.2 times as long 

 as head and trunk together, the trunk short, subcylindrical, its 

 depth 14.7 to 18.6 times, the broad, flat, rather rectangular 

 head 8.4 to 9.5 times in total length without caudal ; the breadth 

 of head a little more than its depth up to 0.3 more than its depth 

 and 1.7 to 2.3 times in its own length; the snout very broad, 

 horizontal, its tip gently rounded, 3.75 to 4 times in head; the 

 tiny but perfectly distinct eyes on top of head, far apart, the 

 interorbital space 4.3 to 5 times in head ; the mouth very markedly 

 oblique, the posterior angle of maxillary extending to lower mar- 

 gin of preopercle and about half distance to eyes; the lips thin, 

 the lateral flaps rather narrow, not fleshy, their fringe of sensory 

 papillae very little developed; sixteen teeth in outer row above 

 and ten in outer row below; the chin very prominent, strongly 

 oblique, with two longitudinal rows of three pairs of small bar- 

 bels and a median barbel between the middle pair; the dorsals 

 and anal low, enveloped in very thick skin, continuous over both 

 dorsals, and continuous with caudal, without a notch at their 

 junction with the latter; the caudal small, pointed, 8 to 9 times 

 in length; the small rounded pectoral 2.5 to 3.5 times in head 



