132 GOBIID.E. 



II. More than twenty rays in the soft dorsal and anal fins : 

 Eleotriodcs (part.), Bleek. 



48. Eleotris heteroptera. 



Eleotris heteropterus, Bleek. Borneo, ix. p. 422. 

 Eleotriodes heteropterus, Bleek. Goi-am, p. 212. 



B.4. D.6|i A.1 



Scales scarcely conspicuous. The height of the body is contained 

 eight times and a half in the total length, the length of the head five 

 times and a quarter. Cleft of the mouth very oblique, with the 

 upper jaw shortest ; the maxillary extends to below the anterior half 

 of the eye. Dorsal fins lower than the body ; caudal forked. Green- 

 ish rose-coloured ; a black spot along the middle of the caudal. (JBl.) 



Rivers of Bandjermassing. 



49. Eleotris microlepis. 



Eleotris microlepis, Bleek. Banda, v. p. 102. 

 Eleotriodes microlepis, Bleek. Goram, p. 212. 



B.4. D.6|± A.± 



Scales scarcely visible. The height of the body is one-eighth of 

 the total length, the length of the head one-sixth. Cleft of the 

 mouth very oblique, with the upper jaw shorter ; the maxillary ex- 

 tends to below the anterior half of the eye. Dorsal fins lower than 

 the body. Caudal slightly emarginate. Greenish rose-coloured: 

 sides of the head with blue spots ; a curved blue streak behind the 

 eye, another on the opercle ; caudal immaculate. (Bl.) 



Coasts of Banda and Nias. 



15. ASTERROPTERYX. 



Asterropteryx, Riipp, AtL Fisch^, p. 138. 



Head and body compressed, covered with largo • scales ; eyes of 

 moderate size, lateral, not prominent. Teeth in a single series. Two 

 dorsal fins, the anterior with six flexible spines. Ventrals not united, 

 with the space between them narrow, and with one spine and five 

 rays. Gill-openings of moderate width, not contigiious. Branchio- 

 stegals three (?) ; air-bladder none. Anal appendage absent. 



Red Sea. 



1. Asterropteryx semipunctatus. 



B'upp. I. c. taf 34. fig. 4. 



D. 6 I 12. A. |. 



The middle spines of the anterior dorsal fin and the ventral elon- 

 gate. Yellowish-brown, each scale with a blue spot. {Riipp.) 

 Mfissaua. 



