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Color in spirits dusky olive, with obscure cloud-like blotches, tending to form indistinct cross bands; 
nape vermiculated; a suborbital bar of dusky, dorsals and caudal specked in both rays and membranes; 
anal dusky, slightly darker toward margin; ventrals dusky, with pale edge; pectorals with a faint short 
bar across upper bas¢. 
Here described from a single specimen, 2.25 inches long (female) from Aparri, in northern Luzon. 
This fish has the aspect of species of Gobionellus or Oxyurichthus, though differing from them 
distinctly in its generic characters. It has the notched tongue of Gobionellus, with the large scales 
of Rhinogobius. The Aparri specimen is referred to the present species with some hesitation, having 
perhaps a little less oblique mouth than the type of Rhinogobius ocyurus Jordan & Seale, and showing 
less plain traces of dark crossbars. The type of Rhinogobius ocyurus has the tongue destroyed. 
WAITEA Jordan & Seale. 
261. Waitea mystacina (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Head 3.50; depth 4.50; nose 2.75; interorbital space .5 of eye; eye 4.20; maxillary 1.50, produced 
behind eye, to preopercle; teeth minute, in bands, as in Gobionellus; dorsal vt-11, the first three rays (in 
male) of the spinous dorsal much produced and finely filamentous, the filamentous extension of the 
third ray reaching beyond back of base of soft dorsal, anal 12; scales 29, head naked; caudal probably 
pointed (broken). 7 
Color in spirits olive, bluish forward; sides with five distinct blotches; both dorsals mottled in the 
membranes; anal and ventrals dusky. 
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A single example (male), from Aparri, northern Luzon, 2.75 inches long. 
SICYOPTERUS Gill. 
262. Sicyopterus teniurus (Giinther). 
Head 4.50; depth 5; eye 5.50 in head; dorsal vi—-11 or 12; anal 11; scales 55-60. 
One specimen from Mindoro Island, 3.25 inches long, and one from Sibuyan, 1.75 inches. 
TRYPAUCHENICHTHYS Bleeker. 
263. Trypauchenichthys typus (Bleeker). 
Dorsal 59 (vi, 52); anal 49; scales 56, cycloid; ventrals notched three-fourths to base; color in 
spirits dull uniform light brown, with purplish tinge. 
A single specimen from Cagayancillo. 
GOBIOIDES Lacépéde. 
264. Gobioides brachygaster (Ginther). 
A specimen, 4.75 inches long, from Aparri is doubtless this species. It has the head 7.50 in length 
to base of caudal, not 9, as stated by Doctor Giinther, but otherwise agrees with his description. Depth 
12.50; dorsal v1, 45; anal 46; dorsal and anal separated from caudal by a notch; pectoral half the 
length of the ventral; eyes invisible; chin with numerous short barbels; head much wrinkled with 
sensory ridges; each side with a median lateral row of transverse vertical slits or pores, each surrounded 
by blue color. 
Family SCORPA NIDA. 
SEBASTOPSIS Gill. 
265. Sebastopsis guamensis” (Quoy & Gaimard). 
Four specimens, 1.50 to 3 inches long, from Calayan. 
SEBASTAPISTES Gill. 
266. Sebastapistes nuchalis ((Giinther). 
Head 2.50 in length to base of caudal; depth 2.75; depth of caudal peduncle 3.20 in head; dorsal 
x1, 1, 10; anal m, 5 or 6; scales 38, the anterior 5 or 6 scales of the lateral line with a short spine; nose 
3.66 in head; eye 4; interorbital space 1.50 in orbit; maxillary 1.90 in head, its tip reaching a vertical 
a Two small specimens, 1.8 inches long, taken at Honolulu, H. I., in 1901, are apparently the young of this species. 
