100 GOBIIDiE. 



The carpus is elongate. Each pubic bone is composed of two por- 

 tions : an upper, convex, lamclliform, bent over towards that of the 

 other side, and a lower for articulation with the humerus ; the 

 latter portion is conical and hollow, and attached to a broad carti- 

 lage intermediate between pubic and humerus. 



There are twenty- six vertebra; ; the first interhaemal is fixed to 

 the haemal of the fourteenth vertebra. The ribs and all the processes 

 are feeble ; those of the last two vertebra; are lamelliform. 



2. Periophthalmus chrysospilos. 

 Sleeker, Banka, ii. p. 728. 



D. 10 1 ^. A. 13. L. Lit. 70. 



The second dorsal fin with a black longitudinal band along the 

 middle. The first dorsal spine produced into a filament in the male. 

 About forty teeth in each jaw. Bluish, dotted ^vith yellow. The 

 spinous dorsal fin yellow inferiorly, black superiorly and anteriorly, 

 its margin being yellow. (Bl.) 



Coast of Karang hadji (Banka). 



3. Periophthalmus schlosseri. 



Gobius schlosseri, Pall. Spicil. viii. pi. 1. fig, 1-4; L. Gm. i. p. 1201 . 



Lac^p. ii. p. 573 ; SJiaw, Zool. iv. p. 246. 

 Periophthalmus schlosseri, Bl. Schn. p. 64 ; Cut\ Rbf/ne Atmn. ; Cuv. 



^ Val. xii. p. 192 ; Bleeher, Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxii., Blenn. 



en Gob. p. 39 ; Cant. Catal. p. 191 ; Cuv, Bigne Anim. lU, Poiss. 



pi. 81. fig. 1. 

 Gobius tredecim-radiatus, Bttch. Ham. Fishes of the Ganges, p. 48. 



septem-radiatiis, Buch. Ham. I. c. p. 46. 



novem-radiatus, Buch. Ham. I. c. p. 47. pi. 2. fig. 14. 



Periophthalmus tredecim-radiatus, Cui\ Sf Val. xii. p. 189. 



septem-radiatus, Cuv. ^ Val. xii. p. 196. 



novem-radiatus, Cuv. Sf Val. xii. p. 196. 



freycineti, Cuv. 8f Val. xii. p. 197 ; Quoy Sf Gaim. Votj. Freyc. 



Poiss. p. 257. 

 ? Periophthalmus bomeensis, Bleek. Bo7-n. i. p. 11. 



D. 4-15 I i. A. ^. L. lat. 55. 



A brownish or blackish band from the eye to the shoulder ; two- 

 thirds of the length of the pectoral fin scaly. Adult specimens with 

 a broad black longitudinal band on the second dorsal fin, and with 

 the ventrals nearly entirely united. Immature specimens with the 

 second dorsal nearly entirely blackish, and with the ventral fins 

 separated from each other. 



East Indies. 



Var. cr. P. FREYCINETI, Cuv. Sf Val., with four or five dorsal spines. 

 * Adult, with the ventral fins united. 

 a Philippine Islahds. 



