1. GOBIUS. 29 



anterior dorsal two elongated black spots, of which the posterior be- 

 tween the fourth and fifth spines ; the other vertical fins with series 

 of black dots and with the margin free ; ventrals with the extremi- 

 ties of the two central rays black. 



Sea of Pinang. 

 a, b. Types of the species : skins. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



44. Gol)ius sadanimdio. 



Buck. Ham. Fish. Gang. pp. 52, 366 ; Bleek. Verh. Batav. Genootsch. 

 XXV., Bengal en Hindost. p. 102. tab. 2. fig. 2. 



D. 6 l|. A. \. L. lat. 26. 



I 7 7 



The height of the body is contained foui' times and a half or five 

 times in the total length, the length of the head four times and a 

 thii'd or four times and a half. The head is nearly as broad as high. 

 The diameter of the eye is less than the width of the interorbital 

 space, and one-third of the length of the head. Snout and cheeks 

 naked. The cleft of the mouth extends to below the middle of the 

 eye ; teeth in villiform bands, canines none. The dorsal fins nearly 

 as high as the body, the middle spines of the anterior one being pro- 

 duced into short filaments. Green, with scattered black dots on the 

 sides ; the anterior dorsal yellowish, with a blackish blotch poste- 

 riorly ; the second dorsal and the anal with one or three longitudinal 

 series of black dots ; caudal with two or four blackish spots on the 

 base. {Bl.) 



Eiver Hooghly (Calcutta). 



45. Gobius criniger. 



? Gobius nebulosus, Forsk. p. 24; Bl. Schn. p. 72; Cur. ^ Veil. xii. p. 84. 



Gobius criniger, Cuv. ^- Veil. xii. p. 82 ; Cant. Catul. p. 184 ; Bleeker, 



Banka, p. 453; Richards. Ichth. Voy. JEreb. ^- Terr. p. 2. pi. 1. figs. 3,4. 



B. 5. D. 6 I -i. A. i-. L. lat. 34. 



Nine longitudinal series of scales between the second dorsal and 

 the anal fins. The height of the body is one-sixth of the total 

 length, the length of the head one-fourth ; the latter is nearly half 

 as high as long, and a quarter less broad than high. The eye occu- 

 pies the second quarter of the length of the head ; the width of the 

 interorbital space is one-half of the diameter of the eye. Snout 

 short ; teeth small. The head and the neck are naked. The dorsal 

 fins are equal in height, as high as the body ; the second spine of 

 the first dorsal sometimes produced, filiform ; caudal rounded ; none 

 of the pectoral rays silk-like. Pale ochre ous : head, body, dorsal 

 and caudal fins irregularly spotted with black, some of the spots 

 being very large ; caudal and anal fins with black margins. 



North-west coast of Australia ; New Guinea ; East Indian Aixhi- 

 pelago ; Pinang ; Malabar. 



a-cl. Adult. Madras. Presented by T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



