1. GOBirs. 49 



2. No teutacle above the orbit. 

 a. Caudal fin elongate, pointed : Oxyuriclitliys, part., Bleek. 

 94. Grobius microlepis. 

 Gobius acutipiunis, var., Cantor, Caial p. 184. 

 — — microlepis, Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Gemotsch. xxii., Blenn. en 



Gob. p. 35, and Java, ii. p. 436. 

 Oxyurichthys microlepis, Bleek. Emim. Spec. p. 120. 



D. 6|i. A. 3^. L. lat. 50. 



The height of the body is contained from seven times and a third 

 to nine tmies m the total length, the length of the head six times • 

 the height of the head is contained once and one-half or once and two- 

 thu-ds m its length. The diameter of the eye is one-fom-th of the 

 length of the head ; eyes close together. The snout is obtuse not 

 shorter than the eye ; cleft of the mouth very oblique, with the 

 lower jaw longest. The teeth of the outer series are enlarged • 

 canine teeth none. The dorsal fins are higher than the body ;° the 

 fifth spme of the anterior dorsal is sometimes produced, filiform 

 Caudal pointed, its length being one-third of the total. Green above" 

 with irregular violet spots ; each scale with a blackish dot on the 

 margm ; the vertical fins rose-coloured ; the spinous dorsal with two 

 or three bluish longitudinal lines, the soft dorsal reticulated with 

 bluish and dotted with blackish; caudal with numerous oblon"- 

 blackish spots ; anal vdth a yellow and violet margin. ° 



Seas of Pinang, Java, and Madura ; Chinese Sea, 

 a. Skin : bad state. Sea of Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



95. Gobius papuensis. 



Ciiv. 8i- Val. xii. p. 106. 



^- 6 1 1^- ^- h- '^- lat. 75-80. 



Scales small anteriorly, becoming larger on the tail. The height 

 of the body IS one-seventh of the total length (without caudal), the 

 length of the head one-fourth. The head is one-third longer than 

 high and one-third higher than broad. The eyes are very close 

 together their diameter being one-fifth of the length of the head 

 Mouth obhque, the maxiUary extending to below the middle of the 

 eye; teeth of the outer series enlarged. The length of the caudal 

 IS one-foui-th of the total. Greyish-brown, clouded with darker- a 

 brown spot at the root of the caudal, another at the base of the pec- 

 toral ; dorsal fins with fine reticulated lines. 



Seas of Australia, New Guinea, and Java. 



_ One of the two specimens from which I have taken the characters 

 IS m the Leyden Museum ; the colours have gone, except the dark 

 spot at the root of the caudal. It was found in Java by Kuhl and 

 van Hasselt, who intended to caU it GoUus mdanostinma , a name 

 since given by Bleeker to another species. This name would indi- 



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