548 ABDENDA ET COEEIGENDA. 



Page 24. Add a new species : — 

 35 a. Gobius macrostoma. 



Gobiopsis macrostomus, Steindachner in Sitzgsher. Wien. Acad. 1861, 

 xlii. p. 291. fig. 6. 



D. 6 I 11. A. 10. L. lat. 33. 



Cleft of the mouth very wide, extending behind the vertical from 

 the posterior margin of the orbit ; eye small, one-seventh of the 

 length of the head. The height of the body is contained seven times 

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

 and two-thirds to three times and three-fourths. Head depressed, 

 broader than high ; the width of the interorbital space is nearly equal 

 to that of the orbit. The teeth of the outer series are the strongest. 

 The soft dorsal is higher than the spinous or than the body. Caudal 

 rounded. Vertical fins with dark streaks, (Steind.) 



Bombay. 



This species is allied to Gobius gmris and viridipunctatus. 



26. Add the following species : — • 

 38 a. Gobius coalitus. 

 Benn. Proceed. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. 1831, p. 166. 

 D. 6 I y. A. \. L. lat. 40. 



Thirteen longitudinal series of scales between the origins of the 

 second dorsal and anal. The height of the body is contained five 

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

 and a fourth. Head rather broader than high, its height being more 

 than one-half of the length of the head. Snout somewhat longer 

 than the eye, the diameter of which is one-fifth of the length of the 

 head, and equal to the width of the interorbital space, which is flat. 

 Cleft of the mouth oblique, with the jaws equal anteriorly, and with 

 the maxillary scarcely extending beyond the vertical from the 

 anterior margin of the eye. Teeth in broad villiform bands, those 

 of the outer series being somewhat larger. Head naked ; scales on 

 the nape and on the anterior part of the back small, becoming larger 

 and ctenoid posteriorly. The chstance of the first dorsal fin from the 

 eye is more than that of the snout from the prseoperculum. The 

 fourth dorsal spine is the longest, shorter than the posterior soft 

 rays, which are higher than the tail underneath and extend beyond 

 the base of the caudal. Caudal rounded. The upper pectoral rays 

 silk-like ; the ventral docs not extend on to the vent. Greenish- 

 olive, irregularly marbled with darker ; series of pearl-coloured spots 

 run along the rows of scales. The second dorsal and the caudal with 

 series of whitish dots, 



Mauritius. 



a. Fifty-seven lines long. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. — Type of the species. 



