1. ooiiins. 37 



66. Gobius ophthahnotaenia. 



lilcvkcr, Kuhos-Eiland p. 40, 



3)-G|nV.- ^-n- i^-i^t.27. 



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

 times and two-thirds in the total length, the length of the head four 

 times and a half to foui- times and two-thirds. The head is nearly 

 as broad as high ; the snout obtuse, convex. The eyes are very close 

 together, and their din meter is one-fourth of the length of the head. 

 The cleft of the mouth is oblitjue ; teeth of the outer series enlarged ; 

 the lower jaw with a lateral canine tooth. Sides and crown of the 

 head scaly. The first dorsal is lower than the second, which is 

 lower than, or as high as, the body ; caudal rounded ; the upper 

 pectoral rays silk-like. Green, clouded %vith darker, and dotted with 

 brown and bluish : a blue vertical band through the eye ; snout and 

 cheeks with yellow dots ; the anterior dorsal with blackish spots an- 

 teriorly and with ^'cllow ones posteriorly ; the second dorsal brown- 

 spotted ; pectoral and ventral fins reticulated with brownish-\'iolet, 

 and minutely dotted with bluish ; caudal with numerous brownish 

 and blue duts, and ^^'ith the lower margin violet. 



Sea of New Selma ; coasts of Celebes ; China Seas. 



a. China Seas. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B. 



67. Gobius chinensis. 



Gobius chinensis, Osbcck, licm nach China, p. 340 ; Cuv. iSf Val. xii. 

 p. 138 ; Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 204. 



eleotris, L. Syst. Nat. 12th edit. p. 449. 



? Gobius unicolor, Cuv. ^ Vol. xii. p. 88 (not Kuhl 8) van Hass.). 



D. 6 I 11. A. 10. L. lat. 35. 



Thirteen longitudinal series of scales between the second dorsal 

 and the anal fins. The height of the body is contained five times 

 and a quarter in the total length, the length of the head four times 

 and three-(jiiartcrs. The head is as broad as high, and one-fourth 

 longer than broad. Snout obtuse, rounded, with the gape oblique, 

 and with the lower jaw somewhat prominent, longer than the eye, 

 the diameter of which is one-sixth of the length of the head, and 

 equal to the width of the interorbital space. Checks with series oi^ 

 minute warts. The nape and the upper part of the operculum 

 covered with small scales. Dorsal fins lower than the body, the rays 

 of the second becoming gradually longer posteriorly ; caudal some- 

 what pointed ; none of the pectoral rays silk-like. Yellowish (in 

 spirits), with very indistinct darker markings ; many scales with a 

 shining pearl-coloured spot. 



Seas of China. (? Kivers of Java.) 



a, b. Adult. China. 



Valenciennes' description of G. unicolor is evidently taken from a 

 fish very different from the typical specimen preserved in the Leydcn 

 Museum. 



