94 GOBIID^.. 



intramarginal band ; caudal with a black horseshoe-like mark ; pec- 

 toral and ventral yellow. 



Rivers of Amboyna and Bali. 



a. Adult. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Stevens. 



7. Sicydium macrostetholepis. 

 Sleeker, Sumatra, ii. p. 271. 



D. 6 I i A. 3^. L. lat. 50. Vert. 11/15. 



The anterior lateral scales are larger than the posterior ones, and 

 than those on the occiput. The first dorsal higher than the body. 

 Blackish-green ; dorsal and anal fins brownish, with numerous small 

 black dots, the latter black-edged ; caudal with a horseshoe-like 

 black mark ; pectoral yellow-edged. The width of the eye is much 

 less than that of the interorbital space. 



Rivers of West Sumatra and Aneiteum. 



a, b. Fine specimens. Aneiteum. From Mr. Macgillivray's Col- 

 lection. 

 c. Adult : skeleton. Aneiteum. From Mr. Macgillivray's Collection. 



Each pubic bone is composed of two lamellse, united at a right 

 angle. They do not form a capsule so completely closed as in 

 S. plumieri, but it is open superiorly and anteriorly.. There are 

 eleven abdominal and fifteen caudal vertebrae, the latter division 

 being somewhat longer than the former, 



8. Sicydinm parvei. 

 Bleeker, Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. 1853, i. p. 426. 

 D.6|^. A.3L. L. lat. 70. 



The scales o.n the occiput and the anterior part of the body are 

 much smaller than those on the middle and on the tail. The first 

 dorsal fin higher than the body. Blackish : caudal yeUow, with a 

 broad violet band round the margin ; the other fins brownish. 



Moluccas. Rivers of Garut (West Java). 



a, h, c. Adult. Moluccas. 



9. Sicydium cynocephalum. 



Sicydium cynocephalum, Cuv. i>f Val. xii. p. 177. pi. .352; Blcek.Batjan, 

 ii. p. 201, and Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. 1859, p. 156. 



lagocephalum, Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxii., Blejin. en 



Gob. p. 39 (not Val). 



Gobius hasseltii, J?/eeA;. Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. i. p. 250, fig. 8. 



D. 6|i. A.i L. lat. 70-80. 



The scales on the neck and belly are much smaller than those on 

 the sides. The anterior dorsal fin generally higher than che body. 

 Dark green, with indistinct oblique brownish bands across the back ; 



