290 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Prel. Cat. Fishes, 1897, p. 31; Riukiu Islands. — Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, 1869, p. 519. — Kner, Novara Fisch., II, 1865, p. 186; Ceylon; 



Nicobar; Tahiti. — Day, Fish. Brit. India, p. 313. — Peters, Monatsb. 



Konig. Akad. Wiss. Bed., 1868, p. 268; Luzon; Samar. — Boulenger, Ann. 



Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), XV, 1895, p. .186; Palawan. — Jordan & Snyder, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 45; Honolulu. — Jordan & Evermann, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1903, p. 361; Suwata, Formosa.- — Jordan & 



Richardson, Mem. Carneg. Mus., IV, no. 4, 1909, p. 200; Formosa. — Bull. 



U. S. Bur. Fish., XXVII, 1908, p. 274; Sibuj-an; Apari. — Check-list Philip. 



Fish., 1910, p. 45. 

 1822. Cheilodipterus culius Buchanan-Hamilton, Fish. Ganges, p. 55, PL V, 



Fig. 16; Ganges. 

 1824. Eleotris nigra Quoy & Gaimard, Zool. Voy. Freycinet, p. 259, PI. LX, 



Fig. 2; Guam, Waigiou.^ — Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 1837, p. 235; 



Isle de France; Ganges; Malabar; India; Java; Otaiti; Borabora; Society 



Island; Madagascar. 

 1831. Eleotris mauriiianus Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc, I, p. 166; Mauritius. 



Head 3.39 in length; depth 5.33; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in 

 head; eye 5; interorbital space 3.66; snout 4; maxillary 2.4; D. VI, 9; 

 A. 9; P. 18; V. I, 5; sixty-four scales in a lateral series, sixteen scales 

 between origins of the second dorsal and anal. 



Body rather depressed, posterior part compressed; head long, 

 depressed, broader than body, a shallow longitudinal groove along the 

 median line of the top; snout rather short, broadly rounded anter- 

 iorly, interorbital space more or less concave; mouth large, terminal, 

 slightly oblique, its angle reaching a vertical through the anterior 

 border of orbit; lips thick; lower jaw protruding; teeth in villiform 

 bands, those on the outer series somewhat enlarged; palatines with no 

 teeth; eyes superior and anterior; tongue oblong, with rounded anterior 

 margin; nostrils separated, minute, the anterior located just behind 

 the upper lip, the posterior approximated to eye above; gill-openings 

 lateral, not extending very far forward; a spine at the angle of pre- 

 operculum, projecting downward and forward. 



Dorsal fin separated; first dorsal rather small, when depressed 

 scarcely reaching the root of second dorsal; second dorsal without 

 filamentous rays, posterior ray the longest; pectoral fins acutely 

 rounded, reaching beyond the posterior end of base of first dorsal; 

 ventrals separated, rather short; the anal inserted beneath third dorsal 

 ray, when depressed reaching end of second dorsal; caudal fin rounded; 

 anal flap developed. 



Body covered with minute ctenoid scales; scales on the upper 

 surface of the head small and cycloid, extending forward to the inter- 



