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orbits, or very little more than the diameter of the orbit. Having 

 seen only one specimen nine inches long, preserved in salt, I can 

 say nothing of the colours. 



Note. — There are in the collection two very young specimens, about an inch long, that I 

 believe to belong to this sort ; they are preserved in spirits and show distinctly four broad 



transverse dark bands on the bod)'. 



KuKTUs GTJLLivERi, Cast. 



Kurtus gulliveri, Cast. Proc. Lin. Soc. of N. S. W., vol. II, p. 233. 

 This curious fish was found by Mr. Grulliver in a fresh water 

 pond near the Norman river. 



Periophthalmus adstralis, Oast. 



Feriojplitlialmus australis, Cast. Researches Austr. Fishes, p. 22. 

 Several small specimens about two inches long ; having been 

 in spirits, the colour is slatey gray, with the belly white. 



GOBIDS ? SAUROIDES. sp. nov. 



It is with some doubt that I place this fish in the genus Gohius. 

 It has the form, and nearly the dentition of a Saurus. The 

 body is elongate, its height being contained five times in the total 

 length, without the caudal ; the head is three times and a half in 

 the same ; the eyes are small and directed upwards ; the lower 

 jaw is considerably longer than the upper one ; on this there are 

 two lines of sharp, elongate, conical teeth, the inner one directed 

 backwards, and the outer one formed of rather strong canines 

 placed at some distance from one another ; on the lower jaw 

 there is in front, a line of large, strong, curved canines, and on 

 the sides a double line of them ; numerous depressions cover the 

 upper side of the head, which is entirely naked, except on the 

 upper part behind the eyes where the scales are small ; on the 

 body there are thirty seven series of scales on the longitudinal 

 line ; these are large, angular, ciliated, and covered with strife ; 

 and also several series of small ones at the end of the tail ; first 

 dorsal with six spines, second with eight rays ; anal with ten ; 

 the second dorsal and the anal have their last rays prolonged ; 

 caudal rather long, pointed ; the ventrals separate except at the 

 base and placed on a disk ; pectorals extending to the twelfth 

 line of scales ; the scales on the lower side in front of the ventrals 



