34 GOBUD^. 



§§ Anterior dorsal with five spines. 

 * Posterior dorsal eiglit-rayed. 



58. Gobius oxypterus. 

 Bleeker, Java, iii. p. 400. 



D. 5 ||. A. ^. L. lat. 25. 



The height of the body is contained six times in the total length, 

 the length of the head four times and two-thirds ; head pointed, de- 

 pressed ; the width of the interorbital space is less than the diameter 

 of the eye, which is nearly one-third of the length of the head. 

 Gape oblique, with the lower jaw longest ; teeth small, in a single 

 row. Head and nape naked. Dorsal fins remote from each other, 

 the second anteriorly much higher than the first, and also higher 

 than the body ; caudal rounded. Greenish : Hps black ; anal rays 

 with violet dots. (Bleek.)* 



Lake Grati (Province of Pasuruan, in Java) . 



** Posterior dorsal eleven-rayed. 



59. GoMus fasciatus. 



Ctenogobius fasciatus, Gill, Freshwater Fishes of Trinidad, in Ann. 

 Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 1858, p. 16 (sep. copy). 



D. 5 I 11. A. 10. 



The height of the body is little more than one-seventh of the total 

 length, the length of the head less than one-fifth ; the width of the 

 body between the pectoral fins is three-quarters of its greatest height. 

 The eyes are more than a quarter of the length of the head, and are 

 distant the length of one of their diameters from the snout ; they 

 are very close together. Yellowish, with four linear black spots on 

 the side ; a dark spot and numerous black dots on the base of the 

 caudal fin ; caudal crossed by five zigzag linear black bands, dorsal 

 with three or four subHnear black spots ; anal, pectoral, and ven- 

 tral fins yellowish. Head with scattered black dots ; a dark trian- 

 gular spot on the operculum. (GilJ.) 



Fi'esh waters of Trinidad. 



/3. Head as high as long. 

 60. Gobius echinocephalus. 



Gobius echinocephalus, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 136, and N. W. Fisehe, 

 pp. 137 & 138 ; ««'. Sr Val. xii. p. 134. 



D. 6|^. A.|. L. lat. 23. 



Body thick, its height being contained three times and a fifth in 

 the total length. Head convex, as high as long, one-foirrth of the 

 total length. Teeth very fine. Dorsal fins subcontinuous ; caudal 



* This species, technically, ought to be referred to Euctenogohius, but it does 

 Hot appear to have a natural affinity to the typical species of that genus. 



