1. GOBIUS. 71 



body. Brownish, with pearl-coloured spots along the back, and with 

 six or seven light streaks on the side, descending obliquely for- 

 wards ; head and the anterior part of the back with round black, 

 white-edged spots ; similar but smaller spots between the rays of 

 the dorsal fins ; anal and pectoral spotted with white ; caudal with 

 a yellow and black margin. 

 Massuah. 



a, b. Adult. Red Sea. From Dr. Ruppell's Collection. 



132. Gobius cyanotaBnia. 

 Bleeker, Bataria, p. 475. 



D. 6 I ^. A. JL. L. lat. 100. 



The height of the body is contained seven times and a quarter in 

 the "total length, the length of the head four times and a half ; the 

 head is higher than broad ; the snout obtuse, convex, shorter tlian 

 the eyes, which are prominent, close together, one-fifth of tlie length 

 of the head. The cleft of the mouth is oblique, the lower jaw being 

 slightly the longer. The teeth of the outer series arc enlarged ; 

 canine teeth none. Head naked ; the scales of the anterior part of 

 the body smaller than those of the posterior. The first dorsal fin is 

 somewhat higher than the second, but lower than the body. None 

 of the pectoral rays silk-like ; caudal rounded. Greenish rose- 

 coloured, with four broad brownish cross-bands and eleven blue 

 transverse stripes ; sides of the head with oblique blue streaks ; 

 dorsal, caudal, and ventral fins immacvdate; base of the pectoral 

 dotted with blue ; anal yellow, M-ith \dolet margin, and with three 

 reddish-violet, blue-edged longitudinal bands. {Bleek.) 



Sea of Batavia. 



133 Gobius niveatus. 

 aw. ^ Val. xii. p. 107. 



Scales very small. The height of the body is contained ten times 

 and a half in the total Icugth, the length of the head six times. The 

 head is half as higli as long. Snout obtuse, rounded. The second 

 dorsal is higher than the first, and both are higher than the body. 

 The length of the caudal is one-fourth of the total. (Jreyish-ljrown ; 

 the sides of the head and the lower parts dotted with white. Ail 

 the fins with brown spots on the rays. ( Val.) 



Java. 



134. Gobius cryptocentrus. 

 Cur. Sf Val xii. p. 111. pi. 346. 



I>-«|f„- A.i. 

 Scales small. The height of the body equals the length of the 

 head and of the caudal fin, and is one-fifth of the total. The head 



