38 GOBIIDJi. 



68. Gobius cauiuus. 



Gobiiis caninus, Cuv, ^ Val. xii. p. 86; Blech. Verhand, JSatav. Ge- 



nootsch. xxii., Blenn. en Gob. p. 27. 

 grandinosus, Valenc. m Voy. Bonite, Poiss. p. 177. pi. 5. fig. 4. 



D. 6 1 -i-. A. J. L. lat. 27-30. 



Nine longitudinal series of scales between the second dorsal and 

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

 or six times in the total length, the length of the head four times 

 and a half or four times and three-quarters. The eyes occupy the 

 second quarter of the length of the head, and are very close together. 

 The lower jaw with two canine teeth. Series of minute warts on 

 the cheek. Scales large, those of the occiput small. The first dorsal 

 is lower than the body, and the second and third spines are pro- 

 duced in the male ; caudal obtusely rounded. Greenish, with large 

 iiTOgular brown spots disposed in two alternate longitudinal series, 

 and with numerous yellow dots ; a blue spot on the shoulder. 



East Indian Archipelago and coasts of China, entering rivers. 



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

 b-c. Adult. Amoy. 



69. Gobius venenatus. 



Cuv. ^ Val. xii. p. 85. 



D. 6 1 1 A. j. L. lat. 35. 



Ten longitudinal series of scales between the second dorsal and 

 the anal. The scales on the nape and before the dorsal, on the ui>per 

 part of the operculum and round the pectoral fin, are much smaller 

 than those on the body and on the tail. The height of the body is 

 contained five times in the total length, the length of the head four 

 times and a third. The head is as broad as high, with the cheeks 

 swollen ; two longit^^dinal and many vertical series of minute pores on 

 the cheek. The width of the interorbital space is less than the dia- 

 meter of the eye, which is one-fifth of the length of the head. Snout 

 longer than the eye, with the cleft of the mouth oblique, and with 

 the lower jaw longest. Teeth of the outer series of irregular size ; 

 a curved canine tooth on each side of the jaw. None of the pectoral 

 rays silk-like ; the posterior rays of the dorsal and anal fins are the 

 longest, longer than the second and third dorsal spines. Caudal fin 

 roimded, somewhat pointed, nearly as long as the head ; the ventral 

 fin terminates at some distance from the vent, and has the basal 

 membrane well developed. Eeddish-olive (in spirits), with a series 

 of ill-defined darker spots along the side ; each scale with a lighter 

 centre ; a whitish spot, broadly edged with bluish, above the oper- 

 culum ; the spinous dorsal fin with a black spot anteriorly ; a white 

 band, inferiorly edged with blackish, on and along the upper margin 

 of the caudal fin. 



Pondicherry. Kurrachee. 



An adult specimen, brought by Messrs. von Schlagiutweit from 

 Kurrachee, is in the East India Collection. 



