268 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Eleotris fusca, Block S;- Schneider. 



Poecilia fiisca, Blocli & Schneider, Syst. Iclitli., 1801, p. 453. 



Cobitis inicljlca, Forster, in Bloch & Schneider, Ibid., and Descr. Anim. 



(ed. Lichtenstein), 1844, p. 235. 

 Gheilodipterus cidins, Buchanan, Fish. Ganges, 1822, pp. 55, 367, pi. v., 



fig. 16. 

 Eleotris ni<jra, Qaoy & Gaimard, Vo3^ " Urania", Zool., 1824, p. 259, pi. 



Ix., fig. 2. Id., Ciivier & Valenciennes, Hist. !N[at. Poiss., xii., 1837, 



p. 233. 

 Eleotris mauritiaiius, Bennett, Proc. Conini. Zool. See, i., 1831, p. 166. 

 Eleotris brachyurus, Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen., xxii., 1849, Blenn. en 



Gob., p. 20. 

 Eleotris ineltDiurus, Bleeker, Ibid., p. 21. 

 Eleotris pseadacaHthoiJomas, Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind., iv., 1853, 



p. 276. 

 Cidins uiijer, Bleeker, Ibid., xi., 1856, p. 411. 

 Gidius 'psev.dacantlwpomus, Bleeker, Ibid. 



Eleotris incerta, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. See. Bengal, 1860, p. 146. 

 Eleotris fusca, Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 125, and Ann. 



Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xx., 1867, p. 62. Id., Day, Fish. Malabar, 1865, 



p. 115. Id., Kner, Zool. " Novara," i., Fisch., pt. 2, 1865, p. 186. 



Id., Playfair, Fish. Zanz., 1866, p. 74. Id., Day, Fish. India, 1876, 



p. 313, pi. Ixv., fig. 7. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 



1881, p. 623. Id., Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xxii., 1898, 



p. 791. Id., Jordan & Scale, Ball. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 1906, 



p. 383. 

 Gidius fascus, Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amst., xiv., 1862, p. Ill, and Arch. 



Neerl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874, p. 303. Id., Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amst. 



(2), xi., 1877, p. 40. 

 Eleotris suaresi, Playfair, Fish. Zanz., 1866, p. 74, pi. ix., fig. 4. 



D. vi/9 ; A. 9 ; P. IS ; V, i/5 ; C. 15. 62 scales between the axil 

 and the hypural joint, and 19 between the anterior dorsal and anal rays. 



Depth before the ventrals 43 in the length from the premaxillary 

 symphysis to the hypural joint; head, without the mandible or the oper- 

 cular lobe, 3 in the same. Eye 5*5 in the head, a little shorter than the snout, 

 and 16 in the interocular space ; snout 4"8 in the head. The length of 

 the caudal pedimtde is to its depth as 3 is to 2 ; breadth before the pectoral 

 bases 1'08 in the depth. Third dorsal spine 22, and the penultimate 

 dorsal and anal rays 16 in the head ; pectoral l''3, and caudal I'l in the 

 head. 



Head broader than deep, and covered with thick mucous which 

 obscures the scales beneath it ; these are present on the cheeks and opercles, 

 and they extend forward to between the eyes on the upper surface of the 

 head. The upper, lateral, and lower sui-faces of the head are coveied 

 with many intersecting lines of microscopic mucigerous papilla^ which 

 ai'e most abundant ai'ound the eye; no enlarged open pores. Preoperculiim 

 with a stout antrorse spine at its angle. Eye rather small, superolateral ; 



