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GOBIID^.. 



i. Twelve inches long: stuffed. Fresh waters of Aneiteum. From 



Mr. Macgillivray's Collection. 

 Jc. Adult. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 I. Adult male : skeleton. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



A very fine variety or, perhaps, species is represented by a single 

 specimen : many of the lateral scales have a large sUvery spot ; three 

 or four series of silvery specks radiate from the eye towards the root 

 of the pectoral and the gill-opening. The vertical and ventral fins 

 with round white spots. 



a. Fine specimen. Fresh waters of Oualan. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 



Skeleton. — The skull is very similar in stnicture and form to that 

 of E. opMocephalus ; the crown is broad, rather convex, with a pair of 

 low, parallel, distant crests anteriorly, and with its posterior portion 

 elevated above the level of the interorbital space, which is exceed- 

 ingly broad and somewhat concave. The praeoperculum has a double 

 ridge on its ascending portion only, the margin of its horizontal 

 limb being simple. There are twelve abdominal and thirteen caudal 

 vertebrae, the length of the former portion of the vertebral column 

 being to that of the caudal as 1*24 : 1. 



lines. 



.Length of the first vertebra 2^ 



of the fifth vertebra 2| 



of the twelfth vertebra 2| 



of the sixteenth vertebra 2 



of the twenty-fourth vertebra 1| 



of the abdominal portion ' 31 



of the caudal portion 25 



5. Eleotris hoedtii. 

 Bleek. Amhoina, v. p. 496. 



D. 6 ||. A, i-. L. lat. 25. 



Head entirely scaly, except the foremost part of the snout ; scales 

 on the upper surface of the head not smaller than those on the body. 

 The height of the body is contained five times and a half in the total 

 length, the length of the head four times and two-fifths. Head ob- 

 tuse, flat, depressed. The diameter of the eye is contained five times 

 and a half in the length of the head, and twice and a quarter in the 

 width of the interorbital space. The lower jaw is longer than the 

 upper, and the maxillary extends to, or nearly to, the vertical from 

 the anterior margin of the orbit. Teeth in viUiform bands. Brown- 

 ish-green, with a darker longitudinal band; two brownish bands 

 from the eye towards the suboperculum ; fins brownish, caudal with 

 red margin ; the anterior dorsal with two or three deep-violet bands, 

 the posterior with ^'iolet spots. (5Z.) 



Rivers of Amboyna, Booroo, Timor, and Nias. 



Eleotrh tohoni (Bleek. Natuurk. Tydschr. Ncderl. Ind. 1854,p.542), 



