14. ELEOTHIS. 117 



The skull of this species is distinguished by the extraordinary 

 width of the frontal bones between the orbits. The praDoperculum 

 has a double ridge along its whole margin. 



17. Eleotris amboinensis. 



Bleeker, Amboina, iv. p. 343. 



D. 6 1 4-. A. 4-. L. lat. 28. 



I 8 8 



Praeoperculum -wdthout spine. Forehead scaly. The height of the 

 body is one- seventh of the total length, the length of the head one- 

 fourth. Snout broad, depressed, produced. The diameter of the eye 

 is one-fifth of the length of the head, and equals the width of the 

 interorbital space. The upper and hinder orbital edges are minutely 

 denticulated. The lower jaw is the longest, and the maxillary ex- 

 tends to below the anterior margin of the eye. Teeth in villiform 

 bands, those of the outer series slightly enlarged. The upper pec- 

 toral rays silk-like. Brownish, with yeUow and brown spots 

 arranged in longitudinal series ; a brown band from the snout to the 

 operculum. The spinous dorsal blackish ; the soft dorsal yellow, 

 blackish on the base, and with the rays brown-dotted ; a large black 

 spot on the base of the pectoral ; anal and caudal with red margin 

 and brown-dotted rays. {Bl.) 



Rivers of Amboyna, Celebes, and Booroo. 



18. Eleotris melanostigma. 



Sleeker, lerhand. Batav, Genootsck. xxii., Blenn. en Gob. p. 23. 



D. 6| \. A. i-. L. lat. 30. 



I 7 7 



Scales on the occiput small. Back elevated. The height of the 

 body is contained five times and three-fourths in the total length, 

 the length of the head three times and a half. Snout broad, de- 

 pressed, produced ; the eyes are distant from each other, and their 

 diameter is one-fifth of the length of the head. Teeth in ^oUiform 

 bands. Brownish, with numerous black dots, those on the cheeks 

 radiating from the eye ; anterior dorsal blackish, the other fins va- 

 riegated with brown ; base of the pectoral with black and yellow 

 spots. {Bl.) 



Java, Madura, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



19. Eleotris caperata. 



Eleotris caperatus, Cant. Catal. p. 197. 



koilomatodon, Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxii., Blenn. en 



Gob. p. 21. 



D. 6 1|. A. |. L. lat. 30. 



The upper edge of the orbit denticulated. Nine longitudinal 

 series of scales between the origin of the second dorsal and the anal. 

 The height of the body is contained foiir times and two-thirds or 

 five times in the total length, the length of the head four times; 



