AUSTRALIAN (iOnilD.I^ — McCULl.OCll ANI> 0(ilLl!V. 223 



earlier description, (Tiintlior states that U. piiiittDnjoidcif is witliout canines 

 and lias the eyes close togethei-, while later lie recognised small canines and 

 described the eyes as about one diameter apart. Day described and ligurcd 

 the maxillary as reaching to below the middle of tlie eye, whereas in our 

 specimens, as in those of Bleeker and Giinther, it does not extend so far. 



Lorn. — Cape York, Queensland ; type of CJobins concolor, De Vis. 

 Normanby Island, D'Entrecasteaux Group ; type of (t. macitlipi'^ini'n, 

 Macleay. Andaman Islands ; Ur. Day's collection. 



Dixtrihutioii. — From the Andaman Islands, through Malaysia, to 

 Noi'th-eastern Australia, the Solomon Islands and the Caroline Islands. 



Genus Mi'cii.odoi'.ins, Su/itt. 



Miigilngohin.^, Smitt, Oi'v. Ak. Forh., 1891), p. 552 ((Ueniujuhi n^ uln'i, Jordan 

 & Snyder). 



Key to the Australian species. 



a. 41-47 scales between the axil and the hypural devisi. 



aa. 31 scales between the axil and the hypural galwayi. 



MoGILOGOniUS DEVISI, inmi. }IOV. 



(Plate xxxvi., tig. 2.) 



Gobius sti(jiuatlcHS, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1S84, p. 6S6 

 (Not Sinaragdihx stigmatii-us, Poey, •= Uahliis^^ ). 



D. vi/10 ; A. 9; P. 16 ; V. i/5 ; C. 16. 40-47 rows of scales between 

 the axil and the hypural joint, and 13-17 between the anterior dorsal and 

 anal rays^i. 



Depth of the body before the dorsal fin 4-1 in the length to the 

 hypural joint ; head 3-3 in the same. Eye 4 in the head, which is sub- 

 equal to the length of the snout, and 1-09 in the interocular space. Depth 

 of the caudal peduncle 2 in the head, and breadth before the pectoral 

 bases 1'2 in the depth. 



Head broader than deep, somewhat depressed. Operculum covered 

 with small scales, cheeks naked. Eyes rather small, superolateral, and 

 separated by a broad slightly concave interspace. Snout obtuse, the jaw^s 

 subequal. The anterior nostril in a low tube near the upper lip, the 

 posterior close to the orbital margin. Mouth slightly oblique, maxillary 

 reaching backward to beyond the middle of the eye. Premaxillary teeth 

 in a narrow band, the outer row somewhat enlarged and conical ; mandib- 

 ular teeth in a broader baud, the posterior row somewhat enlarged. 

 Tongue largely free, subtruncate anteriorly. Gill-opening lateral, some- 

 what broader than the isthmus ; the exposed edge of the shoulder-girdle 

 smooth. 



i*) There is some doixbt as to whether a new specific name is necessary for this 

 species or not. In substituting the name devisi for sliij)naticus we have been guided 

 by an opinion pubhshed by the Malacological Society, which deals with a precisely 

 similar case. — Pi-oc. Malacol. Soc, vi., 3, 1904, p. 130. 



11 The scales are smaller and more irregular in one specimen than in the other. 



