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the profile of the snout descends abruptly. The first dorsal is lower, 

 the second rather higher, than the body. Scales of moderate size. 

 Canine teeth none. Yellowish-brown, with twelve narrow brown 

 vertical streaks ; each scale on the .sides with a short black stripe ; 

 a broad brown band from the eye to the lower margin of the praj- 

 operciilum. (Val.) 

 Otaheitc. 



14. Gobius oligolepis. 



Gobius oligolepis, Bleeh. Sumatra, iii. p. 508. 



spiluriis, Bleck. Verh. Bat. Genootsch. xxii., Blenn. en Gob. p. 32«. 



D. 6 I 11-12. A. 12. L. lat. 22. 



The height of the body is contained five times and a half or six 

 times in the total length, the length of the head five times. The 

 head is obtuse, convex, rather higher than broad. The eyes are 

 close together, and their diameter is somewhat less than one-third 

 of the length of the head. Jaws equal anteriorly, the maxillaiy ex- 

 tending to below the posterior half of the orbit. The teeth of the 

 outer series are enlarged in the upper jaw ; canines none ; cleft of 

 the mouth slightly oblique. The head and the neck, to the anterior 

 dorsal fin, are naked. The spinous dorsal has the anteiior spines 

 produced, and as high as the body ; the soft dorsal is lower. The 

 upper pectoral rays silk-like ; caudal fin obtusely roimdcd, nearly 

 one-fourth of the total length. Green : a blackish band between 

 the eye and the interopercidum ; head and body spotted with darker, 

 the spots on the sides being transverse and disposed in a series. The 

 soft dorsal fin with two blackish longitudinal lines on the marginal 

 portion ; dorsal and caudal rays spotted with violet. {Bl.) 



Coasts and rivers of Java, Madura, and Sumatra. 



** Head as broad as long. 

 15. Gobius buccatus. 

 Cuv. 8{ Val. xii. p. 60. 



Cheeks swollen. Head as broad as long, and one-third broader 

 than high ; its length is one-fourth of the total. Mouth nearly 

 vertical. The diameter of the eye is one-sixth of the length of the 

 head, and one-half of the width of the interprbital space. None of 

 the pectoral rays silk-like. Scales of moderate size. EntJrplv 

 brown. {Vol.) 



Hah. ? 



/3/3. The second dorsal with eleven or less rays. 

 * Head as broad as long. 



1 6. Gobius cyclopterus. 

 Cuv. 8f Val. xii. p. 50. 



D.O|i. A.i 

 The head is as broad as long, and only half as high ; its length is 



