128 GOBIID^. 



Philj-pnus ocellicauda, Eicharils. J'oi/. Sidph. Fishes, pp. 68, 149. pi. 56. 



figs. 15, 16. 



sineiisi.s, Ricliards. Ichth. Chin. p. 210. 



opliicephalus, Blevk. in Verhand. Batav. Gcnnotsch. xxii., Blenn. 



en Gob. p. 20. 

 Bostrichthys sinensis, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Pldlad. 1860, p. 125. 



D. 6 I ^2. A. |. L. lat. 140. Vert. 12/15. 



Scales on the head and neck nidimentaiy. A broad patch of teeth 

 on the vomer, forming one-half of an oval. The height of the body- 

 is contained six times and a half in the total length, the length of 

 the head four times and a tliird. Head broad, depressed, obtuse ; 

 eye small ; cleft of the mouth wide, extending behind the vertical 

 from the posterior margin of the eye. The anterior nostril produced 

 into a short barbel-like tube. Brown, marbled with darker ; a round 

 black, white- edged ocelhis on the upper part of the root of the caudal. 



China, Coasts of Java and Bintang. Fresh waters of Oualan. 



a. Nine inches long. China. Presented by J. E. Eeeves, Esq. 

 h. Half-grown. China. 



c. Half-grown : bad state. Hongkong. From the Haslar Collection. 



d. Adult. Fresh waters of Oualan. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 



e. Half-groMTi. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



/. Half-grown : skeleton. China. Presented by J. E. Eeeves, Esq. 



Air-bladder large. Pseudobranchiee, a slit behind the fourth gill. 

 Intestinal tract short, making a single circumvolution. 



The vertebral column is composed of twelve abdominal and fifteen 

 caudal vertebrse, both portions being equal in length. 



/3. Palate entirely smooth : Elcotris (part.), Bleek. 

 40. Eleotris urophthalmus. 

 BJccher, Borneo, iv. p. 202. 



D. 7 ||. A. -\. L. lat. 75. 



The height of the body is one-eighth or one-seventh of the total 

 length, the length of the head one-fourth. Head broad, depressed, 

 obtuse. The diameter of the eye is one-sixth of the length of the 

 head, or one-half of the width of the interorbital space. The cleft 

 of the mouth extends to below the orbit ; teeth in \-illiform bands. 

 The length of the caudal fin is one-fifth of the total. Brownish ; a 

 black, red-edged ocellus on the upper part of the base of the caudal 

 fin. (Bh) 



Eivers of Bandjermassing. 



41. Eleotris urophthalmoides. 



Bleeker, Sumatra, ii. p. 273. 



D. 6 U. A. 4- L. lat. 60. 

 Scales on the head and neck very small. The height of the body 



