Observations of water vapor and silicon monoxide masers were conducted in the direction of G305.8−0.2. No SiO maser emission above 7 Jy of flux density was detected. The short-time variability of the H 2 O maser together with the absence of compact radio continuum emission suggests that the excitation energy of the maser could originate from an O7-O9 protostar in its earlier evolutionary stages