4'.)4 SBALB. 



fish, the caudal is lunate, its length equal to upper jaw. A siii,t,dc 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 marj^^in. 

 Anterior nostril consisting of a small round pore with a membraneous 

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

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



(.''olor 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 yellowish. 



Type i.< Xo. UVil caught in the sea wdv (Jagayan. Mindanao, 13 

 September, 1907. 



Prohahiy the form most nearly relaleil to this species is 3/. iicolor. 



Family CYPEINIDJv The Minnows. 

 Barbus ivis Seale, sp. nov. Plate I. [Ivi.s.] 



Head without opercular flap 3.".">; depth '.,'.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 2.5;"); 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 lo tip of 

 snout is practically straight. Tlie greatest depth of the body is at 

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

 depth 1.75; its median width (i.5(i. The upper portion of head is 

 somewhat rounded, the interorbital s|)ae(^ is very slightlv convex. Snout 

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

 anterior no'tril with a funnel-like membrane. (Ijeatest 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. Xo teetli except 

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

 shoulder, (fill openings restrietcd. ending on a line with angle of 

 preopercle. 



(.ill 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 ha\e 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. 



