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bltie and red streaks. Anal with a narrow and nearly central band along its extent, which 

 is red externally and bine inferiorly. ■ n a ■ -l • i xi, 



Hafcita^.— Madras to the Malay Archipelago. Jerdon's figure is 6-4 inches m length. 

 He has likewise the figure of another fish with much the same proportions, but the number 

 of rays is not enumerated. He termed it Natsi candai. Tarn. Body of a light colour, four, 

 horizontal narrow red lines along the first and three along the second dorsal fin two 

 along the anal which has likewise a dark outer edge. Three narrow red vertical bands 

 down the base of the caudal fin, which has an outer dark margin. 



Page 286. Gobius vieidipdnctatds. Add synonymy. 



QoUus chlorostigma, Bleeker, Blen. en Gob. p. 27. 



Page 288. Add Gobius thuestoni. 



B. V, D. 6/Jo, P. 22, V. 1/5, A. 10, C. 14, L. 1. 30, L. tr. 8. 



Length of head 4f, of caudal fin4f, height of body H in the total length %e3— upper 

 margin near the dorsal profile, diameter 4i in t^e length of the head, IJ diameter from 

 the end of the snout and 1 apart. Head i wider than long, while its height equals its 

 leno^th without the snout. An oblique rise from snout to eyes, from whence the dorsal 

 profile is nearly straight : the width of the body equals f of its height Upper jaw slight y 

 the lono-er, cleft of mouth rather oblique, the posterior extremity of the maxilla hardly 

 reaching to beneath the front edge of the eye. A single row of warts across the cheeks 

 No barbels. Teei!/i— villiform with an outer enlarged row, and a small canine m either 

 -jaw Fins— First dorsal separated by a short interspace from the base of the second 

 dorsal, its spines flexible, the longest equalling the height of the body below it : the last 

 rav'i of the second dorsal somewhat prolonged, i longer than the dorsal spines, and reach- 

 ino-'to the base of the caudal fin. Pectoral as long as the head, its upper edge straight, its 

 lower rays the shortest, some of its upper rays silk-like. Ventral reaches vent ; anal 

 similar to second dorsal; caudal wedge-shaped. ScaZe^- strongly ctenoid and angular, 

 anterior to the dorsal fin comparatively small, there being 11 rows between the posterior 

 eds-e of the orbit and the first dorsal spine : 8 rows between the bases of the second dorsal 

 and anal, none on the head. C'o^o »rs-slatey-grey, with 5 rows of dark and interrupted 

 narrow brown bands in the anterior portion of the body, becoming brown spots from the 

 pectoral fin on the base of wliich are two well-marked brown blotches. Numerous sma 1 

 blue spots on the body: first dorsal with brown spots: ventral black, and with a dark 

 outer edge. 



EaUtat— One specimen 4| inches long, sent by Mr. Thurston from Madras. 



Page 291. Add Gobius miceolepis. 



Gobius acutipinnis, Y&r. Ca,ntor, Catsd. p. IS4:. 



„ microlepis, Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. xxii, Blenn. en Gob. p. 35, and Java, u, 

 p. 4.36 ; Giinther, Cat. iii, p. 49. 

 OxyuricUhjs microlepis, Bleeker, En. Species, p. 120. 



B. V, D. 6/j\, P. 22, V. 1/5, A. -^V, C. 17, L. 1. 50. 



Length of head 6, of caudal fin 3 to 3i, height of body from 7-| to 9 in the total length. 

 Eyes-hmh up, and placed rather close together ; diameter, 4 m the cngth of the head, 

 and about 1 diameter from the end of the snout. Cleft of mouth oblique, lower jaw the 

 lono-er, the maxilla reaches to below the hind edge of the eye. Snout obtuse, leeth— 

 in a sino-le row without canine, those in the upper jaw a little longer and further ap.irt 

 than those in the lower jaw. !''/«.— both dorsals higher than the body, in some examples 

 the fifth ray of the first dorsal fin has a filamentous prolongation. Caudal lanceolate Oolo^irs 

 — o-reenish or brownish-bufP, with some clouded spots on the back and sides, a black clot 

 at the edge of most of the scales : sometimes a black spot at the base of the caudal hn. 

 Pine dark spots on the rays of the dorsal fins ; anal and caudal stained dark, especially 

 externally. 

 Eahitat.—M&Avas, to the Malay Archipelago and China. 

 Page 296. Gobius sadanundio. Add synonym. 



Gobius pleurostigma, Bleeker, Blenn. en Gob. p. 28. 



Page 297. Add Gobius littoeeus. 



Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, page 261. 



B.v, D. 6/11, P. 15, V. 1/5, A. 10, C. 14, L. 1. 22, L. tr. 6. 



Length of head 41, of caudal fin 4|, height of body 5| in the total length. Eyes- 



