61 



Gobius koUiis, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., xii, 1837, 68.— Jerdon, Madr. Jour., xv, 148.— 



Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., xxii, 1849, Blenn. en Gob., 24.— Cantor, Catal., 180.— 



Jacq., Voy. Ind. Poiss., 1835, pi. 14, f. 3. 

 Gobius russelii, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., xii, 1837, 75. 

 Gobius catebus, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., xii, 1837, 76. 

 Gobius kora, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., xii, 1837, 77. 

 Gobius celebicus, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., xii, 1837, 74. — Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. lud., 



vii, 1854, Banteu, 318. 

 Gobius kurpah, Sykes, Trans. Zocil. Soc. London, ii, 1841, 352, pi. 61, f. 1. 

 Gobius platycephalus, Peters, Mouatsber. Berl. Acad., 1852, 681. 

 Gobius phaiosoma, Bleeker, op. cit., xxii, 1849, Blenn. en Gob., 30; Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., 



1851, i, f..5. 

 Gobius fusiformis, Bleeker, op. cit., xxii, 1849, Blenn. en Gob..?,0. 

 Gobius fasciato-punciatus, Eichardson, Voy. Sulph. Ichth., 1844, 145, pi. 62, f. 13, 14. 



D. 61. A. ^. L. lat. 33. 

 Ten longitudinal series of scales between the second dorsal and anal 

 fins. Height of the body is one-sixth or one-seventh of the total 

 length, and the length of the head is one-quarter of the same. Head 

 depressed, broader than long, the breadth is four-fifths of the length, 

 and the height is three-fifths of the same. The diameter of the eye is 

 contained 3J or 4 times in the length of the head. Interorbital space 

 flat, proportionately broader in larger specimens than in smaller ones ; 

 in the former it nearly equals the vertical diameter of the eye. Snout 

 depressed, length equals the diameter of the eye, upper profile obliquely 

 descending ; cleft of the mouth nearly horizontal ; lower jaw prominent; 

 the end of the upper extends to the vertical from the center of the eye. 

 Teeth in a villiform band ; an external enlarged series : no prominent 

 canines. Upper surface and sides of the head naked ; scales on the 

 neck much smaller than those on the sides of the body ; they extend 

 nearly as far forward on the occiput as a line from the posterior border 

 of the praeoperculum. Second dorsal fin higher than the first, and nearly 

 as high as the bodyj the distance of the first dorsal from the eye 

 equals that of the snout from the posterior margin of the prseoperculum. 

 Ventrals extend nearly to the vent; pectorals somewhat longer. Cau- 

 dal rounded, shorter than the head. Yellowish-brown, -with five or six 

 broad brown bands across the back ; the color of these bands sometimes 

 rather faint, and their outlines indistinct. Along the sides of the 

 body, and alternating with the dorsal bands, is a series of rounded deep 

 brown blotches. Under the lens all the coloration on the sides is 

 resolved into minute dots; head dotted. A small brown spot on the 



