64 GOBiin^. 



118. Gobius ocellaris. 

 Gobius ocellaris, (Brouss.) Cuv. ^ Val. xii. p. 98. 

 D.6|l. A.± L.lat.60. 



Snout elongate, with the upper jaw longest and somewhat pro- 

 tractile. The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length, the 

 length of the head one-fourth ; the height of the latter is two-thirds 

 of its own length, and its width three-quarters of its height. The 

 eye is situated nearer to the extremity of the operculum than to 

 that of the snout, and is one-sixth of the length of the head, or one- 

 half of the width of the interorbital space. All the teeth are small, 

 villiform. The height of the vertical fins is one-half of that of the 

 body ; caudal rounded ; the basal membrane of the ventrals is broad, 

 without lateral appendages. Reddish -brown, sometimes with a 

 darker band along the middle of the body ; back and sides dotted 

 with black ; fins blackish : the anterior dorsal with a black spot 

 between the fifth and sixth spines ; the posterior and the caudal with 

 stripes of black dots. {Val.) 



Fresh waters of lie de France (and of Otaheiti ?). 



119. Gobius grammepomus. 



Gobius grammepomus, Bleck. VcrJimid. Batav. Genootsch, xxii., Blenn. 



en Gob. p. .34, and Batjnn, ii. p. 200. 



melanocepbalus, B/eck. Vcrhand. Batav. Genootsch. I. c. p. 33. 



personatus, Bleek. I. c. p. 34, and Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. 



1851, i. fig. 4. 



^- ^ I To- ^- To- ^- l^t. 50-55. 



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

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

 times to four times and two-thii'ds ; the height of the head equals its 

 width, and is contained once and a half or once and three-quarters 

 in its length. The snout is slightly convex, longer than the eye ; 

 the diameter of the latter is one-fourth or one-fifth of the length of 

 the head. The cleft of the mouth is very slightly oblique, with the 

 upper jaw longer; the teeth of the outer series somewhat enlarged; 

 canine teeth none. The maxillary extends to the vertical from the 

 orbit. Head naked. Scales on the neck not much smaller than, 

 those on the tail. The spinous dorsal is somewhat higher than the 

 soft, but lower than the body ; the second and third spines are the 

 longest ; none of the pectoral rays silk-like ; caudal rounded, its 

 length being five times or five times and a half in the total. Green, 

 brown-spotted ; head dotted wdth violet ; an oblique streak from the 

 eye to the maxOlary ; dorsal and caudal fins with small, oblong, 

 cuiTed black spots ; pectoral with a larger spot at the upper part of 

 the base ; anal yellowish, violet along the middle. 



Rivers of Java, Celebes, Borneo, Bali, Booroo, Amboyna, Sumatra, 

 and Batjan ; Ceylon ; Madras. 



a-b, c-d. Fine specimens. Ceylon. 



