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mark appears to be a small black one on the upper angle of the gill cover. 

 This spot resembles that in the same position on ti. citrinus and may indicate 

 kinship, but there are no traces of the characteristic vertical streaks of that 

 species, and the dorsals are not separated. 

 Found off Nairai, Fiji Islands. 



Gobioides totoyensis, sp. nov. 



Plate 3, Figs. I and 3. 



Br. r. 4; D. 6 + 45; A. 45; V. 5; P. 7 -f- 6. 



Body compressed, depth one-eighth and body cavity one-third of the total 

 length. A fold below the abdomen behind the ventrals, somewhat like the 

 tropeic fold in certain sharks. Head short, about one-sixth of the entire length, 

 narrow above, apparently with a swollen tract or cushion on the forehead, from 

 occiput to mouth. Snout short, upper jaws shorter, lower jaws stronger, chin 

 protruding. Mouth medium, cleft rising obliquely forward ; maxillary reach- 

 ing to a point below the eye ; lips thick ; teeth small, in villiform bands, a very 

 small canine at each side above and below. Eyes minute. No barbels. Gill 

 openings wider than the bases of the pectorals, upper angle of each opening for- 

 ward of the middle of the base of the fin. Dorsal, anal, and caudal continuous ; 

 the skin enveloping them not especially thick. Anterior dorsal spine above the 

 mid-length of the pectoral fin ; first six rays of the fin lower and closer together 

 than the following rays, but not separated from the balance of the fin by a 

 space. Caudal elongate, one-seventh of the total, pointed, united by mem- 

 brane with' dorsal and anal. Anal origin below the eleventh ray of the dorsal. 

 Ventrals short, longer than the pectorals, subtruncate, parallel, close together, 

 with inner edges joined together and to the body, appearing externally as if 

 containing but four rays each. Pectorals not extending as far backward as the 

 ventrals, twice as wide as long, with protruding rays, in two sections of which 

 the lower — six rays — is truncate, and the upper, of eight or nine rays, is 

 longer and pointed. Lateral line distinct on the head, in a median tube an- 

 teriorly on the flank and backward to the scaly portion, below the thirty-fifth 

 ray of the dorsal, where in a series of larger scales it has the ordinary appear- 

 ance on bony fishes. Scales cycloid, appearing to be absent from the anterior 

 three-fifths of the body ; backward they are comparatively large. 



Color uniform brownish white, probably yellowish or flesh color in life. 



Taken in Totoya, Fiji Islands, outside of Kiui-kini and inside of thirty 

 fathoms depth. 



Periophthalmus schlosseri Pall.; Bl. Schn. 



D. 8 + 13; A. 11. 



The descriptions of P. schlosseri do not mention several transverse bands 

 which cross the back, passing down and oblitj^uely forward on the flanks of 



