150 GOBIID.'H. 



panied by whitish dots ; anal blackish, with three series of violet 

 ocelH ; base of the pectoral aud ventral white-spotted. 



Female. — Anterior dorsal not elevated ; markings indistinct. 



Bourbon, Pondicherry. Madras. (Pacific.) 



a-h. Adult. Madi-as. Presented by T. C. Jerdon, M.D. 

 c. Female. Pacific. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B. — 

 Tj-pe of C. lateralis. 



19. Callionymus ocellatus. 



Callion^-mus ocellatus, Pall. Spin'/, viii. p. 25. tab. 4. figs. 1-.3 ; Walh. 



Arh'di, p. 008 ; L. Gm. i. p. 1041 ; Bl. Sc/in. p. 40; Ctiv. ^' Val. xii. 



p. 308 ; Bleek. Amhoina, vi. p. 422. 

 punctulatus, Lacep. ii. pp. 328, 340. 



D. 4 I 8. A. 7. C. 10. 



Gill-opening on the side of the neck, covered by the extremity of 

 the operculum, which is not produced. Prseopercular spine straight, 

 shorter than the eye, -ndth two tooth-like processes superiorly ; none 

 at the base. 



Mah. — The anterior dorsal is elevated. Head and body with 

 numerous small blue ocelli ; the spinous dorsal rose-coloured, ^vith 

 two curved brown, blue-edged cross-bands inferiorly, and with four 

 brown spots superiorly, black in the centre and edged with blue ; 

 soft dorsal with two brown longitudinal streaks, edged with blue 

 and black. Caudal with a brown cross-bar on the base, and pos- 

 terioi-ly spotted with brown and dotted with blue. Anal brown, with 

 two blue longitudinal stripes. 



Female ? 



Western parts of the East Indian Archipelago. 



20. Callionymus marmoratus. 



Callionymus marmoratus, Peters in Wiefpn. Arch. 1855, p. 255. 

 perelegans, Biane. Spec. Zool. Moss. p. 263, Pise. fig. 9. 



B. 6. D. 4 I 8. A. 7. C. 13. 



Foramen branchiale on the side of the neck, but above the root of 

 the pectoral. The operculum is not produced. Praeopercular spine 

 somewhat bent inwards and upwards, with two tooth-like processes 

 superiorly ; none at the base. 



Male. — The anterior dorsal fin is elevated. Brownish, variegated 

 with darker and spotted with white ; a broad dark-brown cross-band 

 from the base of the first dorsal to that of the pectoral. Anterior 

 dorsal with numerous interrupted bluish transverse lines, the pos- 

 terior with series of small brown, white-edged spots ; pectoral and 

 caudal with transverse series. 



Female. — The anterior dorsal fin is not elevated. Brownish-olive, 

 marbled Avith darker, reticulated with white ; lower part of the sides 

 with pearl-coloured dots and stripes. The anterior dorsal fin is 

 brown, with concentric, interrupted bluish lines ; the posterior 



