ArsTK'Ai.iAx (ioiiiin.t: — mcCitm.ocii anh (miii.kv. 231 



Mai'o kitscus, UiippeJl. 



(Plate xx.xiii , lis;. '^.) 



Gobinx /a.<ri(!i, Riippt'll, Atl. lieiso Nonll. AFi-ika, Fisolie, 182S, p. 1:57. 



(johins piiiirtilhitiiK, Kiippcll, Lor. ell., l8"28, p. 138. 



IGuhias soi>orator, Cuviei- & ValencioTnics, Hist. Nat. I'oiss., .\ii., 1837, 



p. 56. Id., Jordan & Kvennanii, i?nll. IT.S. Nat. Miis., xlvii. iii., 



1898, p. 22 IG (idii synonymy). 

 Gobins albopunctatiis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Lor. ril., p. 57. hi, Riippell, 



Nene Wirbelth., Fische, 1838, p. 138. Id., Giintlier, Biit. Muh. Cat. 



Fish., iii., 1861, p. 25, and Fische Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 172, pi. ex., 



fig. a. Id., Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 294, j)l. ixiii., fig. 7. hi, 



Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ii., 1878, p. 357, and Lor. cit., 



v., 1881, p. 595. 

 Gubiiis nebidopunrfdtiin, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 1837, 



p. 57. Id., Riippell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische., 1838, pp. 138, 139. 



Id., Giintlfer, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 26. Id., Kluuzingei-, 



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



Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 31. 

 Gobius pandangeims, Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., i., 1849, p. 249. 

 Gobius breviceiis, Blyth, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1858, p. 271. 

 Gobius homocyairus, Vaillant & Sauvage, Revue Mag. Zool. (3), iii., 1875, 



p. 280. ■ 

 Gohim darnleyensis, Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 



1877, p. 331, pi. xii., tig. 1. 

 Gobius nigripinnis, Alleyne & Macleay, Ibid., p. 332, pi. xii., tig. 2. 

 Gobius sandvicieiisis, Giinther, "Challenger" Rept , Zool., i., 1880, p. 60. 

 Gobius Diarginalis, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 686. 

 ? Gobius poecilichthys, Jordan & Snydei% Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus , xxiv , 



1901, p. 52, fig. 4. 

 Mapo fuscus, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxiii. i., 1905, 



p. 483, fig. 212. Id., Weber, " Siboga" Exped., Ivii., 1913, p. 466. 



D. vi/10-11 ; A. 9 ; P. 18 ; V. i/5 ; C. 15. Thirty-six rows of scales 

 between the upper base of the pectoral and the hypural joint, and thir- 

 teen to fourteen between the anterior dorsal and anal rays. 



Depth 4-2 in the length to the hypural joint ; head 3-3 in the same. 

 Breadth between the bases of the pectoi^als I'l in the depth. Eye equal 

 to the snout, 4 in the head ; interocular space 2-5 in the eye. Depth of 

 the caudal peduncle 22, and caudal fin 1'05 in the head. Fifth dorsal 

 spine 2-2, posterior dorsal and anal rays 1*4 in the head. 



Head naked with swollen cheeks. Yerj fine rows of mucigerous 

 pores cross the cheeks and opercles, and one extends fz'om behind the 

 preopercular margin onto the mandible ; open pores are present on the 

 snout, iuterobital space, behind the eye and the preoperculum, and above 

 the operculum. Eyes close together, cutting the profile. Snout decli- 

 vous ; anterior nostril tubular, the posterior a simy)le opening before the 

 eye. Mouth a little oblique, with thick fleshy lips, the maxilla reaching 



