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the mouth oblique ; teeth of the outer series enlarged. The eyes 

 are very close together, one-foiu-th of the length of the head. The 

 scales on the posterior part of the body are much larger than those 

 on the anterior. Dorsal fins higher than the body ; caudal rather 

 elongate, its length being two-ninths of that of the body. Body 

 reddish-brown, with three broad brown cross-bands, the fii-st below 

 the spinous dorsal fin, the two others below the soft ; head with 

 yellow dots superiorly ; the soft dorsal with a series of yeUow spots 

 along the base. (Bleek.) 



Sea of Bulucumba (Celebes) ; Amboyna. 



141. Gobins gymnocephalus. 

 Bleeker, Batavta, p. 473. 



D-8|i. A.±. 



Scales very small. The height of the body is contained eight 

 times or eight times and three-quarters in the total length, the 

 length of the head six times ; the head is rather higher than broad ; 

 the snout obtuse, shorter than the eye ; the cleft of the mouth ob- 

 lique ; the eyes are close together, and their diameter is contained 

 four times and a half in the length of the head. Canine teeth in 

 both jaws. Dorsal fins nearly as high as the body ; caudal lanceolate, 

 its length being three times and two-thirds or four times and a 

 quarter in the total ; none of the pectoral rays siUc-like. Greenish, 

 with three broad rose-coloured cross-bands ; dorsal fins immaculate ; 

 caudal with several oblique red and blue streaks ; anal with a red 

 and blue longitudinal band along the middle. {Bleek.) 



Sea of Batavia. 



II. The anterior dorsal with seven to nine spiups. 



142. Gobius petrophilus. 

 Bleeker, Batavia, p. 476. 



D. 7 ||. A. i-. L. lat. 35. 



The height of the body is contained six times and a thiid in the 

 total length, the length of the head foiu- times ; head broader than 

 high ; snout convex, shorter than the eye ; cleft of the mouth ob- 

 lique. The diameter of the eye is contained three times and three- 

 quarters in the length of the head ; the width of the interorbital 

 space is less than one-half of the diameter of the eye. Teeth of the 

 outer series enlarged ; canine teeth none. Head naked ; scales on 

 the neck smaller than those on the body. The first dorsal is half 

 as high as the body ; caudal rounded. Brownish-red, clouded with 

 browTi superiorly ; the first dorsal with three or four brown longi- 

 tudinal streaks ; the rays of the other vertical fins and of the pec- 

 torals dotted with brown. (Bleek.) 



Seas of Java, BaU, Sumatra, Timor, and Goram. 



