494 SEALE. 



fish, the caudal is lunate, its length equal to upper jaw. A single row 

 of rather short strong canine teeth in each jaw and irregular double row 

 of the same kind down shaft of the vomer. Posterior nostril consisting 

 of a large round open pore with a membrane on its anterior margin. 

 Anterior nostril consisting of a small round pore with a membraneous 

 cover formed something like lips to the small central opening, each 

 nostril on a line in front of eye. Buccal cavity large and baggy. 



Color yellow brown, the posterior of tail and the head brown, a black 

 line along the entire dorsal surface, angle of jaws white, fins brown 

 except pectorals which are j'ellowish. 



Type is No. 1621 caught in the sea near Gagayan, Mindanao, 13 

 September, 1907. 



Probably the form most nearly related to this species is .¥. hicolor. 



Family CYPRI]SriD.^E. The Minnows. 

 Barbus ivis Seale, sp. nov. Plate I. [Ivis.] 



Head without opercular flap 3.75; depth 2.55; dorsal 10; anal II, 

 6 (not counting branch on last ray) scales 4-23-3, the lateral line curves 

 down to a little below median line of sides, then up again to middle of 

 caudal peduncle; eye 4.70 in head; snout 3.50; interorbital space 2.35; 

 maxillary 3.10 in head, its end under anterior margin of eye. Two 

 maxillary barbules on each side, the lower one the longest, its tip reaching 

 to angle of preopercle; mandible 2.55; pectorals 1.15; ventrals 1.45., 



Body is oblong compressed, the upper outline between the spinous 

 dorsal and head is distinctly gibbous ; the lower outline from anal to tip 

 of snout is a low even curve, the profile of head from nape to tip of 

 snout is practically straight. The greatest deptli of the bod}' is at 

 origin of ventrals. Length of caudal peduncle 1.50 in head, its least 

 depth 1.75 ; its median width (j.50. The upper portion of head is 

 somewhat rounded, the interorbital space is very slightly convex. Snout 

 is rounded at tip, its median width is slightly greater than its length; 

 anterior nostril with a funnel-like membrane. Gi'eatest depth of head 

 1.35 in its length, the greatest width 1.55. Eyes small, less than snout. 

 Mouth small, the upper lip closing over the lower. No teeth except 

 pliaryngeals, which are 5-3-2, larger ones slightly hooked with a small 

 shoulder. Gill openings restricted, ending on a line with angle of 

 preopercle. 



Gill rakers rather short, shaped something like the pharyngeal teeth 

 with the points exaggerated, 7 on lower limb, the longest 3 in pupil. 



Body entirely covered with large smooth scales which have five or six 

 striate lines in the centers. Dorsal and anal with high scaly sheaths, 

 base of caudal scaled, ventrals with a long axillary scale, pectorals without 

 axillary scale. Head entirely naked. 



