246 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MDSEDM. 



Gohius criniger, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Ihid., p. 82. It?., Ricliardson, 

 Ichtl). "Erebus & Terror." 1844, p. 2, pi. i., figs. 3-4. Id., Cantor, 

 Cat. Malaj'. Fish., 1850, p. 184. Id., Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., 

 ' iii., 1852, p. 453. Id., Giinther, Cat. Fisli. Brit. Mus., iii., 1861, p. 

 29. Id., Day, Fish. Malabar, 1865, p. Ill, and Fish. India, 1876, p. 

 288, pi. xlii., fig. 2. Id., Allejne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, i., 1877, p. 330. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, 

 ii., 1878, p. 356, and v., 1881, p. 595. Id., Weber, " Siboga " Eiped., 

 Ivii., 1913, p. 461. 



Gohius hrevifilis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 1837, p. 

 90. Id., Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 940. Id., Gunther, Fische 

 Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 176, pi. cviii., fig. g. Id., Sauvage, Hist. Madag., 

 xvi., 1891, pi. xli., fig. 2. 



Gohius caniuus var. africanus, Playfair, Fish. Zanzibar., 1866, p. 71, pi. 

 ix., fig. 1. 



Gohius caninus (var. africanus), Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 Ivi. i., 1867, p. 313 (not (t. caninus, Cuv. & Val.). 



Gohius anchenotaenia, Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., ii., 1867, p. 415, 

 and in Pollen & van Dam, Faun. Madag., iii., 1874, p. 56, pi. xviii., 

 fig. 1. Id., Sauvage, Hist. Madag., xvi., 1891, pi. xxxix., fig. 3. 



Gtenogohius criniger, Bleeker, Ai'ch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., xiii., 1878, p. 54. 



Gohius festiv us, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 687. 



Coryphopterus criniger, Seale, Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus., iv., 1906, p. 84. 



Bhinogohius nehulosus, Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 1906, 

 p. 401. Id., Jordan & Richardson, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxvii., 

 1908, p. 276, and Check List Fish. Philipp. Is., 1910, p. 47. 



Rhinogohius lungi, Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxvi., 1907, 

 p. 41, fig. 13. 



D. v(vi)/10; A. 10; P. 18; V. i/5 ; C. 13. 31 rows oF scales be- 

 tween the upper base of the pectoral and the hypural joint, and 13 

 between the antei'ior dorsal and anal rays. 



Depth 4'3 in the length to the hypural joint, liead 3"1 in the same. 

 Orbit 3"5 in the head, longer than the snout, which is 4"1 in the head ; 

 interorbital width 3*5 in the orbit. Breadth between the pectoral bases 

 1'2 in the depth. Depth of the caudal jieduncle 2-5 in the head. Third 

 dorsal spine 1"3, third dorsal ray 2-1, and the penultimate anal ray 2'08 

 in the head ; pectoral 1-5, and caudal 1"3 in the head. 



Head naked; cheeks and operculum with many rows of mucigerous 

 pores, which also extend onto the snout, nape and mandible ; larger open 

 pores are present on the upper surface of the head, along tlie nuchal 

 groove and around tlie preopercular border. Eyes large, separated by a 

 narrow, concave interorbital space. Snout forming a convex curve and 

 broadly rounded anteriorly ; anterior nostril in a short tube, the posterior 

 a simple opening. Mouth oblique, jaws equal, the maxilla reaching to 

 below the anterior fourth of the eye. A band of villiform teeth in each 

 jaw, and an outer row of enlarged subulate ones anterioily, which extend 



