118 GOBIID^. 



the diameter of the eye is four times and a half in the hitter ; eyes 

 approximated. Teeth in villiform bands. Brown : fins blackish ; a 

 black, red-edged spot on the base of the pectoral fin. 



Coasts of Java, Madura, and Celebes ; Sea of Pinang ; China. 

 a-b. Adult and half-grown : skins. Sea of Pinang. From Dr. 



Cantor's Collection. — Types of the species. 

 c, d. Adult and half- grown. China, 



III. Head and body rather compressed, similar in form to a Cyprinoid : 

 Eleotris (part.), Bleek. 



20. Eleotris cyprinoides. 



Cuv. df Vol. xii. p. 248 ; Bleek. Sninatra, ii. p. 277. 



D, 6 I -i-. A. ~. L. lat. 26-28. 



Head entirely scaly. Body compressed, its height being nearly 

 equal to the length of the head, and one-fifth of the total ; the dia- 

 meter of the eye is rather more than one-fourth of the length of the 

 head, equal to the width of the interorbital space, and longer than 

 the snout. Snout pointed, with the lower jaw longest ; the max- 

 illary does not extend to the vertical from the anterior margin of the 

 eye. Teeth in villiform bands. Scales finely cihated. Brownish-olive, 

 with a blackish longitudinal band from the upper part of the base of 

 the pectoral, below the lateral line to the caudal ; dorsal and caudal 

 fins with brown spots. 



Rivers of Bourbon, of Benculen (Sumatra), and of Oualan. 

 a. Adult. Oualan. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 



21. Eleotris leuciscus. 

 Bleeher, Sumatra, ii. p. 278. 



D. 6 1 1. A. i. L. lat. 25. 



Head entirely scaly. Body compressed, its height being contained 

 three times and three-quarters in the total length, the length of the 

 head four times and a half; the diameter of the eye is two-sevenths 

 of the length of the head, equal to the width of the interorbital space, 

 and longer than the snout. Snout pointed, with the lower jaw long- 

 est ; the maxillary does not extend to the vertical from the anterior 

 margin of the eye. Teeth in villiform bands. Tved anteriorly, green 

 posteriorly ; the anterior dorsal fin black, with two yellow bands, the 

 posterior yellow- dotted ; pectorals with a double black and yellow 

 spot on the base ; the other fins red, black-edged. {Bl.^ 



Rivers of West Sumatra. 



22. Eleotris tsenionotopterus. 

 Bleeker, Bali, p. 298. 



B. 6. D. 6 I -i. A. ^. L. lat. 28. 

 Head and body compressed, entirely (?) scaly. The height of the 



