410 
Back brown, usually pale. Sides and lower surface silvery 
white, with 7 darker lateral blotches which extend across entire under 
surfaces; first from eye, second at pectoral base, third midway between 
pectoral and ventral, fourth at ventral base, fifth before dorsal, sixth 
above front part of anal and seventh on caudal peduncle. Barbels pale, edged 
blackish, also hind lobe black. Iris silvery white. Dorsal dusky to 
blackish, with broad white band parallel and submarginal with upper fin 
edge. Anal white, with dusky blotch in front and hind upper edge blackish. 
Caudal white, lower lobe with subterminal dark brown blotch and smaller 
medially; fin base with dark transverse bar. Pectoral blackish, especially 
terminally, edges above and below whitish, also oblique white bap before 
middle or nearer base. Ventral whitish, blackish over terminal 2/3 and 
basally dark brown blotch. largest example shows pectoral little different 
or more whitish with dark basal transverse bar, another subbasal and parallel; 
along upper edge submarginal black blotch, another subtcrminal and lower 
inner portion of fin largely blackish. Variation also seen in ventral fin 
where most of inner area of fin dark to dusky. 
East Indies, Philippines, 
One example, Lat, 25° 10’ K., long, 166® 20’ W, November 3, 1907, Length 
23 mm. D. I., 11. A, I, 8, Each pectoral with 3 transverse black bands, 
ventral with 2, Itondibular barbel nearly long as head. 
