44 GOIUID^. 



ther, and their diameter is contained four times ;ind a half in the 

 length of the head. Head scaly. The first dorsal is lower than the 

 second, and as high as the body ; caudal rounded. Green : most of 

 the scales -n-ith a brown spot ; rays of the vertical fins dotted with 

 brown ; spinous dorsal with a blue spot posteriorly. (Bleek.) 

 Sea of Batavia. 



83. Gobius inacrostoma. 



D. 6 I 8. A. 7. L. lat. 27. 



Ten longitudinal series of scales between the origin of the pos- 

 terior dorsal and the anal. Head and body very compressed ; the 

 height of the body is contained three times and three-filths in the 

 total length, the length of the head four times. The depth of the 

 head above the prteoperculum is not much less than its length, and 

 much more than its width. Eye rather small, its diameter being 

 one-seventh of the length of the head, equal to the width of the 

 interorbital space, and less than the extent of the snout. Cleft of 

 the mouth slightly oblique, wide, reaching backwards to the vertical 

 fi'om the posterior margin of the eye, with the jaws equal in front. 

 Each of the jaws with a pair of small canine teeth anteriorly. 

 Cheeks naked ; operculum scaly. Scales minutely striated and 

 ciliated. The two anterior dorsal spines are the longest, somewhat 

 produced, but much lower than the body. Caudal rounded, its 

 length being contained five times and a haLf in the total. The pec- 

 toral has no silk-like rays, and extends to the origin of the anal. 

 Ventral reaching to the vent, with the basal membrane weU de- 

 veloped. Brownish (in spirits), with irregular, narrow, oblique 

 darker streaks ; the anterior dorsal with two black longitucUnal 

 stripes, the lower of which is dilated into a blackish blotch pos- 

 teriorly ; the second dorsal with three rather irregular serrated 

 blackish bands, and with white spots between them. Caudal dotted 

 with brown ; anal blackish. * 



lines. 



Total length 20 



Length of the head 5 



Height of the body 5^ 



Diameter of the eye 0| 



Length of the caudal fin 3| 



Australia. 



a. Apparently mature. Australia. From Mr. Gould's Collection. 



b. Caudal fin elongate, pointed. 



84. Gobius acutipinnis. 



Gobius acutipenuis, Cm: (ij- Veil. xii. p. 80 (not Cant.). 

 setosus, Cin: ^- Val. xii. p. 8L 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is one- 



