212 RECORDS OF THE AUSTKAI.IAX .MISKIM. 



GOIUODON CITKINDS, Ri'ippeU. 



Gobiiix citrhius, Riippell, Neuewirbeltli. Fiscli., 1838, ]>. 139, pi. xxxii., 

 fig. 4. 



Guhiodon citriniis, Klunzinger, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wieii, 1871, p. 40. 

 Id., Giiuther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fisli., iii., 1861, p. 87, and Fisclie 

 Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 181, pi. cix., fig. e. it?., Day, Fish. India, 1876, 

 p. 298, pi. Ixiv., fig. 2. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linu. Soc. N.S.Wales, 

 v., 1881, p. 613. 



Fseadogohiodo)!, citrliius, Jurdan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 

 1906, p. 410. 



D. vi/11 ; A. 10 ; P. 19 ; V. i/5 ; C. 17. Depth before the ventrals 

 2'3 in the length to the hypural joint ; head 31 in the same. Eye 3*8 in 

 the head, shorter than its distance from the premaxillary symphysis ; 

 interocular space a trifle wider tlian the eye. Caudal peduncle a little 

 deeper than long. Breadth before the pectorals 206 in the height. 



Head deeper than long, compi-essed ; the profile of the muzzle 

 obtuselj' rounded, the upper and lower surfaces evenly oblique. Nostrils 

 in low tubes, the posterior in front of the eye, the anterior nearer the 

 upper lip. Several large pores are arranged around the preopercular 

 border and behind the eye ; two others are on the interorbital space, and a 

 pair between the nostrils. Microscopic papilla are present on the lower 

 preopercular border and beneath the lower lip. Interocular space nearly 

 flat. Moutli a little oblique, jaws subequal ; maxilla extending backward 

 to below the anterior portion of the eye. Each jaw with a narrow band 

 of villiform teeth, some of the outer ones being a little enlarged ; three 

 inner subcaniniform teeth on each side of the mandibular symphysis. 

 Gill-opening narrower than the base of the pectoral. 



Body strongly compressed, naked ; together with the head and fins, it 

 is covered with a thick granular mucous which obscures tlie characters 

 beneath it. Genital papilla large. 



First dorsal commencing above the end of the opercle ; the anterior 

 si)ine highest, the others decreasing evenly backward ; the last is 

 separated by a wide interspace from the fifth, and is united witli the 

 base of the fiist ray by membrane. Soft dorsal I'ounded, and longer than 

 high ; all the rays except tlie first are branched, and the median ones are 

 much longer tlian the postorbital portion of the bead. Anal commencing 

 behind, and terminating before the soft dorsal ; the rays increase in length 

 to the eighth, which is longer than the base of the fin. Caudal rounded. 

 Pectoral rounded, reaching to below the sixth dorsal ray. Ventrals with 

 a broad basal membrane, the median rays reaching the vent. 



Colour. — Brown in alcoliol, with four pale dark-edged lines on the 

 head and thoracic region ; two extend through the eye, the first to behind 

 flie month, and the second across the cheek ; the third descends fiom the 

 upper surface of the neck to ci'oss the end of the operculum, and the 

 fointh from the shoulder across the base of the pecrtoral. The opercular 

 lobe bears a distinct black spot. Pale daik-edged lines extend along the 

 bases of the dorsal and anal fins. Fins dark brown ; the first dorsal has 



