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prominent, with the outer eyelid well developed. Anterior teeth 

 much stronger than those on the sides, all in a single series ; 

 those on the side of the mandibula horizontal. Two dorsal fins : the 

 anterior short, with five flexible spines ; caudal with the lower mar- 

 gin more or less obliquely truncated. The basal portion of the pec- 

 toral fins is muscular and free in some of the species. Ventrals 

 separated from each other. GiU-openings rather narrow; branchio- 

 stegals five ; air-bladder absent ; pseudobranchise, a slit behind the 

 fourth gill. 



A tropical genus : inhabitants of the coasts and of fresh waters 

 near the sea. East Indies, northwards to China and Japan. 



These fishes approach in their habits to Periophthalmm, especially 

 those species which have muscular pectoral fins. 



1. Boleophthalmus boddaertii. 



Gobius boddserti, Pall. Spictl. viii. p. 11. pi. 2. figs, 4, 5; L. Gm. i. 



p. 1201 ; Shatv, Zool iv. p. 238. 

 Eleotris boddserti, Bl. Schn. p. GG. 

 Gobius striatus, Bl. Schri. p. 71. tab. 16 (^lem. j. 

 Russell, i. p. 42. pi. 54. 



Gobius plinianus, Buck. Ham. Fish. Gam/, p. 45. pi. 35. fig. 13. 

 Boleoplithalmus boddaerti, Cuv. ^ Val. xii. p. 199 ; Bleek. Verhand. 



Batav. Genootsch. xxii., Blenn. en Gob. pp. 5, 40 ; Cant. Catal. 



p. 192. 

 plinianus, Cuv. 8f Val. xii. p. 205. 



D. 5 U. A. ^. L. lat. 90. 



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Eleven longitudinal series of scales between the posterior parts of 

 the second dorsal and of the anal. Scales on the head and back im- 

 bricate, each with a small tubercle. Body with seven brown cross- 

 bands, descending obliquely forwards ; a band of brown spots along 

 the side of the head. The first dorsal with a few scattered bluish 

 specks, the second with four rather irregular longitudinal series of 

 ovate bluish-white spots; caudal brown, without lighter specks, with 

 two blackish longitudinal stripes. 



Estuaries and coasts of the East Indies. It does not appear to 

 extend to China and Japan. 



a-b. Adult. Madras. Presented by T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



Cr-d. Adult and half-grown. Bay of Bengal. From the Collection 



of the Zoological Society. 

 e. Adult : skin. Sea of Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 /. Adult. India. Presented by G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 

 (J. Adult. India. From the Collection of the East India Company. 



2. Boleophthalmus pectinirostris. 



Apocryptes chinensis, Oshcck, Amoen. Acad. iv. pi. 3. fig. 3, and Voy. 



Chin. p. 200 (Iteise nach China, p. 170). 

 Gobius pectinirostris, L, Gm. i. p. 1200; Bl. Schn. p. 70; Lac6p. ii. 



p. 542 ; Shatv, Zool. iv. p. 245. 



