Arsii;AMAN' (iolillH.I'; McCI'I.I.OCII AN'li (tiilMiV. 227 



CJemis AwAiins, Steindnc/mrr. 



Awaoits (Steiiulacliiier), .lordan & Sealc, IJuII. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 

 1906, p. 405. 



A\VAOU.s civAs.siLAi;i;is, Gilntlicr. 



Gohiu.'i crassihthn's, Giinther, Brit. Mas. Cat. Fish., iii., 18H1, p. 6'S. Id., 

 Giiuther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), x.x., 1867, p. 61, and Fische 

 Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 178, pi. cviii., tig. b. 



This species has been recorded from Australia by Giinther. An 

 example is in the Australian Museum from Townsville, Queensland. 



Genus GoBius, Liimcmis. 



GOBIDS ORNATDS, Rilppell. 



(Plate xxxiii., fig. 2.) 



Gobius ornatns, Riippell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 135. 

 Id, Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 21, and Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (3), xx., 1867, p. 61. hi, Kner, Reise " Novara," Zool., 

 i., 1865, p. 173. Id,, Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ivi. i., 

 1867, p. 312. Id., Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 294, pi. Ixiii., fig. 1. 

 Id., Giinther, Fische Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 172, pi. cxi., fig. a. Id., 

 Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 1877, p. 331. Id., 

 Giinther, Voy. "Challenger," Zool., i. 6, 1880, p. 44. Id., Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ii., 1878, p. 356, and v., 1881, p. 594. 

 Id., Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx. i., 1879, p. 382. Id., 

 Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii., 1906, p. 453. 



Gobius vsjit rail's (Ehrenberg), Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 xii., 1837, p. 113. 



Gobius inter stinctus, Richardson., Iclith. " Erebus & Terror," 1844, p. 3, 

 pi. v., figs. 3-6. 



Gobius ■periophthalmoides, Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., i., 1851, p. 249. 



D. 6/11; A. 10; P. 19; V. 1/5; C. 13. Scales in 29 rows between 

 the operculum and the hypural joint, and in 9 between the anterior dorsal 

 and anal rays. Depth 5 in the length to the hypural joint ; head 3"6 in 

 the same. Eye 4 in the head ; interorbital width 45 in the eye. Snout 

 longer than the eye, 3"2 in the head ; depth of caudal peduncle 2"1 in the 

 same. 



Cheeks and opercles naked, with minute mucigerous canals and the 

 usual preopercular, nuchal, occipital and rostral pores. Eyes of moderate 

 size, breaking the profile, and separated by a very narrow interorbital 

 space. Snout a little longer than the eye, its profile oblique and convex. 

 Anterior nostril in a short tube, the posterior a simple opening. Maxil- 

 lary reaching to below the middle of the eye, mandible shorter than the 

 premaxillaries. A band of villiform teeth in each jaw ; a few enlarged, 

 cardiform, curved teeth in the front of tlie upper jaw, and some smaller 

 ones in the lower ; palate and tongue toothless. Tongue rounded an- 

 teriorly. 



