14. ELEOTRIS. 119 



body is nearly equal to the length of the head, and one-fourth of the 

 total. The diameter of the eye is contained three times and two- 

 thirds in the total length, and rather more than the -nddth of the 

 interorbital space and than the length of the snout. The upper jaw 

 is shorter than the lower, and the maxillary does not extend to the 

 vertical from the anterior margin of the eye. Teeth in villLform 

 bands, those of the oiiter series being enlarged. Greenish ; a broad 

 brown band from the eye to the throat : dorsal fins black ; the an- 

 terior with two white spots, one above the other, the posterior with 

 three white bands, ascending obliquely forwards : anal rose-coloured, 

 brownish inferiorly. (Bl.) 

 Ilivers of BaU. 



23. Eleotris cyanostigma. 



Eleotris cyanostigma, Bleekcr, Kokus, iv. p. 452. 

 Eleotriodes cyanostigma, Bleek. Enum. Spec. p. 112. 



D. G 1 3^. A. -i. L. lat. 25. 



The thii'd dorsal spine is produced into a filament. Head covered 

 with large scales, snout naked ; body compressed. The height of the 

 body is nearly equal to the length of the head, and one -fifth of the 

 total; the eyes are close together, one-third of the length of the 

 head, and longer than the snout. The jaws are equal ; the maxillary 

 extends to below the middle of the eye. Teeth in vilhform bands, 

 those of the outer scries being enlarged ; a small canine tooth on 

 each side of the lower jaw. Scales ctenoid. Greenish, with a lon- 

 gitudinal series of five or six brown spots ; each scale with a blue 

 dot. Vertical fins brownish- violet ; the second dorsal, anal, and 

 caudal vdth some blue spots. {Bl.) 



Sea of Booroo and Kokos Island. 



B. Scales small, fifty and more in a longitudinal series. 

 I. Less than twenty rays in the soft dorsal and anal fins. 

 1. None of the rays produced into a filament, 

 fl. No ocellated spot on the base of the caudal. 

 a. None of the bones of the head armed. 

 aa. Vomerine teeth : Philypnus, Val. 



24. Eleotris dormitatrix. 



Platj'ceplialiis dormitator, Bl. Schn. p. 60. tab. 12. 

 Gobiomorus dormitator, Lucep. ii. p. 599. 

 Eleotris dormitatrix, Cui. Rh/ne Anim. 



Philypnus dormitator, Cuv. Sf Val. xii. p. 255. pi. 358 ; Girard, U. S. 

 8)- Mex. Bound. Survey, Ichthyol. p. 29. pi. 12. fig. 13 (young). 



B. 6. D. 6 1 1. A. \. L. lat. 60-65. Vert. 12/14. 



Vomeiine teeth in a crescent-shaped band. Thirty-two series of 

 scales between the occiput and the anterior dorsal fin, twenty or 

 twenty-two between the origin of the posterior dorsal and the anal. 



