72 COBIID^. 



is half 39 broad as long, and its height is three-fifths of its length. 

 Snout short, convex ; eyes close together. The upper jaw has an 

 outer series of stronger teeth, and the two middle ones are somewhat 

 longer than the others. The height of the dorsal fins does not ex- 

 ceed that of the body ; caudal rhomboidal. 



In spirits : blackish -brown, -nath numerous paler vertical streaks ; 

 sides of the head and the anterior portion of the back dotted with 

 white. Dorsal fins greyish, .with transparent spots, some of which 

 have a black centre. 



During Ufe : greyish-red, with the vertical streaks yellow and the 

 dots blue ; cheek with three red, blue-edged vertical stripes. (Val.) 



Massuah (Red Sea). 



135. Gobius russus. 

 Cantor, Catal. p. 186. 



D.eli A.i. 



Scales exceedingly small. The height of the body is contained 

 seven times in the total length, the length of the head and of the 

 caudal fin four times and a half. The diameter of the eye is one- 

 fourth of the length of the head, and nearly equal to that of the 

 snout ; the snout is broad, rounded, with the lower jaw a little longer 

 than the upper ; the gape wide, oblique ; a small canine tooth on 

 each side of the lower jaw ; teeth of the outer series enlarged. Head 

 ^nd nape naked. Dorsal fins as high as the body ; caudal somewhat 

 pointed. Fles i-coloured : on each side four or five large clouded 

 blackish spots, the scales of which have a minute, vertical, lanceolate 

 whitish spot in the centre ; the first dorsal whitish, w4th two black- 

 ish bands, and with a black spot between the fourth and fifth spines ; 

 the second doi"sal with indistinct clouded blackish spots ; the other 

 fins whitish, minutely dotted with brown. 



Sea of Pinang. 



«, Type of the species: skin: not good state. From Dr. Cantor's 

 Collection. 



136. Gobius voigtii. 



Gobius voigtii, Blecker, Sumatra, iv. p. 83. 

 xanthotaenia, Bleaker, Celebes, viii. p. 308. 



D-6lf„. A.±. L.lat.80. 



The height of the body is contained seven times in the total length, 

 the length of the head four times and four-fifths ; the head is higher 

 than broad ; the snout convex, shorter than the eyes, which arc vory 

 close together, one-fourth of the length of the head. The cleft of 

 the mouth is oblique, \Wth the jaws nearly eqiuil ; the teeth of the 

 outer series are enlarged ; a pair of lateral canine teeth in the lower 

 jaw. Head and neck naked ; scales on the anterior half of the body 

 smaller than on the posterior. The first dorsal is much higher, the 

 second lower, than the body ; the length of tlie caudal fin is four 

 times and a quarter in the total. Greenish, M-ith eight brownish 

 cross-bands ; head with round blue, darker-edged S2x>ts ; the first 



