84 GOBIID^. 



10. Apocryptes madurensis. 



BUeker, Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxii., Blenn. en Gob. p. 35. 

 D. 6 I 23. A. 22. L. lat. 35 ? 



The height of the body is one-seventh of the total length, the 

 diameter of the eye one-fifth of the length of the head. Gape wide, 

 extending behind the eye ; teeth of the upper jaw vertical, conical, 

 twenty or thirty in number ; the lower jaw with about fifty hori- 

 zontal bilobate teeth, and with two canines near the symphysis. 

 Caudal lanceolate, two-ninths of the total length. Greenish : the 

 first dorsal with a black spot between the third and fourth spines. 

 (Bleeh.) 



Coasts of Java and Madura. 



11. Apocrjrptes glyphidodon. 



Bleeker, Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxii., Blenn. en Gob. p. 36. 

 D. 6 I 22. A. 22. L. lat. 50. 



The height of the body is one-ninth of the total length ; the eye 

 occupies the third sixth of the length of the head. Gape wide, ex- 

 tending behind the eye ; teeth of the upper jaw vertical, conical, 

 sixteen in number ; the lower jaw with about twenty-four hori- 

 zontal bilobate teeth, and with two canines near the symphysis. 

 The length of the caudal is two-ninths of the total. Greyish, with 

 five light-brown spots along the sides ; head and body minutely 

 dotted with black. {Bleek.) 



Sea of Batavia. 



12. Apocryptes brachypterus. 

 Bleeker, Java, iii. p. 401. 



D. 5 I 8. A. 13. L. lat. 25. 



The height of the body is one-sixth of the total length. Snout 

 depressed, shorter than the eye, which is one-fourth of the length 

 of the head. The upper jaw is shorter than the lower, the gape 

 being very oblique ; the maxillary reaches to below the anterior 

 part of the orbit. Teeth large, widely set ; a pair of canines near 

 the symphysis of the lower jaw. Caudal fin obtuse, its length 

 being nearly one-sixth of the total. Greenish, transparent ; anal 

 rays slightly dotted with black. (Bleek.) 



Lake Grati (province of Pasuruan, Java) 



5. EVORTHODUS. 



Evorthodus, Gill in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1859, p. 195. 



Body elongate, covered with ctenoid scales of moderate size ; head 

 thick, short ; giU-openings of moderate width. Teeth in a single 

 series, with the crown emarginate, those of the lower jaw nearly 

 horizontal ; canines none. Two dorsals, the first with six spines. 

 Ventral fins united, not adherent to the belly. 



Fresh water;)^ of Trinidad and of Surinam. 



