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dorsal spine broadly annulated with brown, a black spot between 

 the fourth and fifth spin(!S ; the second dorsal fin blue-spotted, and 

 with a blue longitudinal line near the margin ; caudal orange- 

 coloured, superiorly and infcriorly violet, superiorly with two oblique 

 blue streaks ; the other fins violet. 



Coasts of Celebes, Nias, Sumatra, and New Holland. 



a. Adult. 



b. Adult. New Holland. 



c-d. Adult. Port Essington. From the Haslar Collection. 



Bleekcr describes the colours of the specimen which he previously 

 named Gobius xanthotttnia, as follows : — Greenish, vdi\\ four black 

 spots on the back, and four others on the side ; nine or ten ol)liquc 

 bright-yellow streaks on the body, descending forwards ; licad with 

 golden, blue-edged ocelH : dorsal fins with the margin orange- 

 coloured, the first spotted with yellow and reticulated with blue, 

 and with a blackish spot between the third and fifth spines ; anal 

 with a series of round yellow spots along the base ; caudal fin with 

 a red and blue longitudinal streak along the middle, and wath the 

 upper margin yellow, blue, and orange coloured. 



137. Gobius polyophthalmus. 

 Bleekcr, Batavia, p. 474. 



D. 6 I ^. A. ^. L. lat. 85. 



The height of the body is contained seven times and three-quarters 

 in the total length, the length of the head five times ; the head is 

 somewhat higher than broad ; the snout obtuse, convex, shorter than 

 the eyes, which are very close together, and one-fourth of the length 

 of the head. The teeth of the outer series are enlarged, and tho 

 lower jaw is provided with two canines besides. . Head naked ; scales 

 small, those on tho anterior part of the body inconspicuous. The 

 dorsal fins are scarcely higher than the body ; caudal lanceolate, its 

 length being contained three times and a half in the total. Green- 

 ish, with eight yellow cross-bands ; three violaceous spots on the 

 posterior part of the side ; head and dorsal fins with numerous ver- 

 milion, blue-edged spots ; the second dorsal with a yellow, ]>lue and 

 vermiUon margin ; caudal with oblique blue and vermilion streaks, 

 and with the upper margin coloured as in the second dorsal ; anal with 

 a series of violet spots along the middle, and with the lower margin 

 violet and yeUow; pectorals orange-coloured; vcntrals violet. (BhcL.) 



Sea of Batavia. 



138. Gobius knutteli. 



? Gobius filifer, Cm?'. <§• Val. xii, p. 100. 



Gobius knutteli, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sci. Lido-Nedcrl. iii., Japan, p. 16. 

 tab. 1. tig. 2. 



D. Ol-. A.-. 



I 1" !) 



Scales minute. The hciglit of the body is contained eight times 



