1. GOBIUS. 65 



e. Adult: bad state. Madras. Presented by T. 0. Jerdon, Es(|. 

 f-g. Fine specimens. Borneo, rurchascd of Mr. Frank. 

 h. Adiilt. 



120. Gobius gyinnopomus. 

 Bleeket; Sumatra, ii. p. 270. 



D. 6 I ^. A. ij. L. lat. 4G-50. 



The height of the body is contained six times and lliree-qnartors 

 in the total length, the length of tl\e head live times and one-third. 

 The head is higher than broad, its width being one-lialf of its lenglli. 

 The width of the interorbital space is one-half tJie diameter of the 

 eye, which is contained three times and two-thirds in the length of 

 the head. Crown of the head scaly, its sides naked. The teeth of 

 the outer series are enlarged ; canine teoth none. Jaws equal an- 

 teriorly. The anterior dorsal is about as higli as the body, the 

 second and third spines being tlie longest ; the posterior part of the 

 second dorsal higher than the body ; caudal rounded. Green, spotted 

 with brown : three brown angular cross-bands between the back and 

 the anal fin, the angle being directed backwards ; a brown cross-band 

 below the eye. The anterior dorsal violet with a yellow longitudinal 

 band, and with yellow dots above it ; the ])osterior spotted Avith 

 yellow, and with a yellow line along the margin ; pectorals yellow, 

 with a black spot on the upper part of the base ; ventrals violet ; 

 anal with an orange-coloured line along tlie margin; caudal spotted 

 with green superiorly and with a yellow and reddish-violet margin. 

 {BleeJc.) 



Seas of Priaman and Java. 



121. Gobius brunneus. 

 Schlcg. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 142. pi. 74. tig. 2. 



D. I 10. A. 8. 



The height of tlie body is about one-si.xth of the total length the 

 length of the head one-fourth. The snout is moderately long, its 

 length being three times and a half in that of the head ; tlie deft 

 of the mouth oblique, with the lower jaw prominent. Teeth very 

 small; scales of moderate size. Caudal rounded; the second and 

 third dorsal spines are the longest, lower than the body. Park 

 brown : back and all the fins dotted with blackish ; the first dorsal 

 with two broad brown bands. (Schlq/.) 



Bay of Nagasaki, 



1 22. Gobius annularis. 



Chajnogobius annularis, Gill in Ann. Lye. Nat. J fist. Xiw York, vii. 

 1859, p. 12. 



D. G I 9. A. 8. 



Scales small, cycloid ; head and sides of the neck naked. Body 

 elongate, its heiglit being one-seventh, and the length of the head 

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