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last two above the anterior half of the anal fin. Shoulder with a 

 round brownish spot. Head reddish-olive ; its sides with rather 

 irregular, small, round silvery spots edged with brown. The first 

 dorsal with a large \'iolet spot in the middle and with numerous 

 small ocelli ; the second dorsal with longitudinal series of A-iolet 

 dots, more distinct on the base of the fin than superiorly ; caudal 

 with blackish margin and with a round blackish spot superiorly at 

 its base ; anal fin with numerous small ocelli along the base ; pec- 

 toral Avithout markings ; ventral white, with the margin blackish. 

 Mauritius. 



a. Five inches long. Type of the species. From the Collection of 

 the Zoological Society. 



128. Gobins albomaculatus. 



Gobius albomaculatus, Itiipj). Atl. Fisclie, p. 135, and N. W, Fischc, 



p. 137 ; Peters in Wiefpn. Arch. 1855, p. 250. 

 quinqueoGcUatus, Cuv. 4" Val. xii. p. 95. 



D. 6 I 14-15. A. 15-lG. L. lat. 5G. 



Twenty longitudinal series of scales between the second dorsal 

 fin and the anal. Crown of the head parabolic. The second, thii-d 

 and fourth dorsal spines produced into filaments, and higlier than the 

 body. Caudal rounded. Canine teeth in the lower jaw. Greenish- 

 brown, with five umber-brown cross-bands, and with bluish spots 

 between them on the back ; opercles with four blue longitudinal 

 streaks, and a yellow band between ; a round blackish spot above 

 the root of the pectoral and on the base of the caudal ; the second 

 dorsal white-dotted, and sometimes with tliree black, blue-edged 

 ocelli at the base ; two or three similar ocelli on the caudal fin. 



Massuah. 



a, h-c. Adult and half-grown. Red Sea. Collected and presented 

 by Dr. E. llUppell. 



129. Gobius decussatus. 

 Bleeker, Celebes, vii. p. 442. 



D. 6 I ^. A. ^. L. lat. 60-65. 



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

 total length, the length of the head five times. Teeth of the outer 

 series enlarged ; two strong canines in the lower jaw ; cleft of the 

 mouth oblique. Dorsal fins rather lower than the body ; caudal 

 rounded. Greenish rose-coloured, with four orange-coloured longi- 

 tudinal bands, crossed by bars of the same coloilr ; head ^-ith two 

 red longitudinal bands, edged with black and blue, the upper to the 

 scapula, the lower to the pectoral. Tail with an orange-coloured, 

 blue-edged spot. Dorsal and anal fins Avith oblique blue stripes. 

 {Bleek.) 



Coasts and rivers of Nias, Celebes, and Booroo. 



