1. GOBIUS. 49 



2. No tentacle above the orbit- 

 a. Caudal fin elongate, pointed : Oxj-iirichtlij-s, part., Blevk. 



94. Gobius microlepis. 



Gobius acutipinnifa, var., Cantor, Catal, p. 184 



microlepis, Block. Vcrliand. Batac. Genootsch. xxii., Blenn, en 



Gob. p. 35, and Java, ii. p. 436. 

 Oxyurichthys microlepis, Blcek. Enum. Spec. p. 120. 



D. 6 I i^. A. y^. L. lat. 50. 



The height of the body is contained from seven times and a thii'd 

 to nine times in the total length, the length of the head six times ; 

 the height of the head is contained once and one-half or once and two- 

 thirds in its length. The diameter of the eye is ouc-foiirth of the 

 length of the head ; eyes close together. The snout is obtuse, not 

 shorter than the eye ; cleft of the mouth very oblique, Avith the 

 lower jaw longest. The teeth of the outer scries are enlarged ; 

 canine teeth none. The dorsal fins are higher than the body ; the 

 fifth spine of the anterior dorsal is sometimes produced, filiform. 

 Caudal pointed, its length being one-third of the total. Crcen above, 

 with irregular violet spots ; each scale with a blackish dot on the 

 margin ; the vertical fins rose-coloured ; the spinous dorsal with i\\ o 

 or throe bluish longitudinal lines, the soft dorsal reticulated with 

 bluish and dotted with blackish ; caudal with numerous oblong 

 blackish spots ; anal with a yellow and violet margin. 



Seas of Pinang, Java, and Madura ; Chinese Sea. 



a. Skin : bad state. Sea of Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



95. Gobius papuensis. 

 Cur. cS- Val. xiL p. 106. 



Scales small anteriorly, becoming larger on the tail. The height 

 of the body is one-seventh of the total length (without caudal), the 

 length of the head one-fourth. Tlie head is one-third longer than 

 high, and one-third higher than broad. The eyes are very close 

 together, their diameter being one-fifth of the length of the head. 

 Mouth oblique, the maxillary extending to below the middle of the 

 eye ; teeth of the outer series enlarged. The length of the caudal 

 is one-fourth of the total. Greyish -brown, clouded with darker ;' a 

 brown spot at the root of the caudal, another at the base of the [m^c- 

 toral ; dorsal fins mth fine reticulated lines. 



Seas of Australia, New Guinea, and Java. 



Ono of the two specimens from which I have taken the characters 

 is in the Leyden Museum ; the yolours have gone, except the dark 

 spot at the root of the caudal. It was found in Java by Kuhl and 

 van Hasselt, who intended to call it Gobius melanostigma , a name 

 since given by lUeeker to another species. This name would indi- 



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