1. cioisrus. 37 



66. Gobius ophthabnotaBnia. 



Bkcker, Kokos-Eiland. p. 46. 



^•Hn^- ^-A- L.lat.27. 

 The height of the body is contained five times and a half to five 

 times and two-thirds in the total length, the length of the head four 

 times and a half to four times and two-thirds. The head is nearly 

 as broad as high ; the snout obtuse, convex. The eyes are very close 

 together and their diameter is one-fourth of the length of the head. 

 Ihe cleft of the mouth is oblique ; teeth of the outer series enlarged • 

 the lower jaw with a lateral canine tooth. Sides and crown of the 

 head scaly. The first dorsal is lower than the second, which is 

 lower than, or as high as, the body ; caudal rounded ; the upper 

 pectoral rays silk-like. Green, clouded mth darker, and dotted with 

 brown and blmsh : a blue vertical band through the eye ; snout and 

 cheeks with yellow dots; the anterior dorsal with blackish spots an- 

 teriorly and with yellow ones posteriorly; the second dorsal brown- 

 spotted ; pectoral and ventral fins reticulated with brownish-violet 

 and minutely dotted with bluish; caudal with numerous brownish 

 and blue dots, and with the lower margin violet. 



Sea of New Selma ; coasts of Celebes ; China Seas. 

 a. China Seas. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B. 



67. G-obius chinensis. 



Gobius chinensis, Osbeck, Heise nach China, p. 340: Cuv. & Val xii 

 p. 138; Richards. Ichth. aiiu. p. 204. '• 9^ »-«'. xii. 



eleotris, L. Si/st. Nat 12th edit. p. 449. 



? Gobius unicolor, Cuv. ^- Val. xii. p. 88 (not Kuhl^van Hass.). 

 D. 6 j 11. A. 10. L. lat. 35. 

 Thirteen longitudinal series of scales between the second dorsal 

 and the anal fins. The height of tlie body is contained five times 

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

 . and three-quarters. The head is as broad as high, and one-fourth 

 longer than broad. Snout obtuse, rounded, with the gape obhque 

 and with the lower jaw somewhat prominent, longer than the eye 

 the diameter of which is one-sLxth of the length of the head, and 

 equal to the width of the interorbital space. Cheeks with series of 

 minute warts. The nape and the upper part of the operculum 

 covered with smaU scales. Dorsal fins lower than the bodyf the rays 

 ot the sexjond becoming gradually longer posteriorly; caudal some- 

 what pointed ; none of the pectoral rays silk-like. Yellowish (in 

 spmts), ^^1th veiy indistinct darker markings; many scales with a 

 shinmg pearl-coloured spot. 



Seas of China. (? Rivers of Java.) 

 a, b. Adult. China. 



Valenciemes' description of G. unicolor is evidently taken from a 

 Museum ^""^"^ ^™"' ^^^^ *->'i"^''^ specimen preserved in the Leyden 



