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to me by the Hon. W. Macleay ; the other was found by Mr. 

 Duboulay, in Rope's Creek, and is three and a half inches 

 long. It has a very feebly marked black longitudinal stripe on 

 each side. 



This genus would, perhaps, in Dr. Gunther's System, be in- 

 cluded with Eleotris, as it comes certainly near Bleeker's genus, 

 Asteropteryx, which is in that case, but it is very distinct from it 

 by its long anal fin. This last genus is founded on a species 

 named by Bleeker, Guntheri, from the rivers of Sumatra. It is 

 figured by Dr. Gunther in the Journ. of the Museum Godeffray 

 fishes pi. XIII- All these fishes are also nearly allied to the 

 Eleotris cyprinoidis of Cuvier and Val. from the river St. Maurice 

 in the Isle of Bourbon. 



Eleotris sulcaticollis. 



Head large, broad, depressed with a deep longitudinal groove 

 on its upper part ; form oval, oblong ; body compressed ; scales 

 rather large, numbering thirty-four on the longitudinal line ; first 

 dorsal formed of six rays, the second of eleven ; caudal broad 

 and rounded ; anal with one spine and eleven rays ; both the 

 second dorsal and the anal with the last rays elongated. In 

 liquor the colour is of a bright yellow with the rays of the fins 

 slightly dotted with black. 



The specimen is four inches long ; from the Brisbane River. 



Note. — This sort comes near my Eleotris planiceps, 



Eleotris adspersa. 



Body oval, elongate ; head rather broad with a groove on the 

 top of the back part ; eleven series of scales between the origin 

 of the posterior dorsal fin and the anal ; head entirely scaly up 

 to the snout ; height of the body contained less than four times 

 in the total length without the caudal fin ; diameter of the eye 

 contained more than four times in the length of the head ; the 

 cleft of the mouth does not attain the line from the anterior 

 edge of the eye ; first dorsal with eight spines ; second high, 

 with eleven rays ; caudal rounded ; anal, of the same form as the 

 second dorsal, of twelve rays. Colour bright brown with the belly 

 yellow (in liquor) ; body covered with small rounded dark brown 



