The Fresh \\'ater Fishes. of the Island of Formosa. 303 



aaa. Dorsal fin \'I, 9; anal composed of 9 rays; scales 41 in a lateral series, 13 in an 



oblique series between origins of the soft dorsal and anal parvus. 



aaaa. Dorsal fin VI, 10; anal composed of 10 rays; scales 28-30 in a lateral series. 



abacopus. 



72. Glossogobius brunneus (Schlcgel). 

 Urohaze (Japan); Kaugam (Giran, Formosa). 



1847. Gobius brunneus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 142, PI. LXIV, 

 Fig. 2; Nagasaki. — Gunther, Cat. Fish., Ill, i86i, p. 65; after S(*hlegel. — 

 ISHiKAWA, Cat. Fish., 1897, p. 39; Tokyo; Boshu. 



1847. Gobius olivaceus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 143, PI. LXXIV, 

 Fig. 3; Nagasaki. 



1901. Glossogobius brunneus Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, p. 74; 

 Wakanoura; Onomichi; Hakodate; Kurume; Nagasaki. — Jordan & Ever- 

 MANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1903, p. 361; Kotosho; Keelung, 

 Formosa. — Jordan & Richardson, Mem. Carneg. Mus., IV, no. 4, 1909, 

 p. 200; after Jordan & Evermann. — Jordan, Snyder, & Tanaka, Journ. 

 Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXIII, 1913, p. 350; Hakodate to Nagasaki. 



1846. Gobius platycephalus Richardson, Ichthyol. China, p. 204; Macao. 



1846. Gobius fasciato-punctalus Rxchardson, Ichthyol. China, p. 204; Canton. 



1897. Gobius giurus Rutter, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad., Jan., p. 85; Swatow. 



Head 3.16 in length; depth 4.88; depth of caudal peduncle 2.84; 

 D. VI, 10; A. 9; P. 20; V. I, 5; eye 5.71 in head, interorbital space 

 6.83; snout 3; maxillary 2.44; thirty-one scales in a lateral series, ten 

 scales in a transverse series; gill-rakers 3 -|- 10. 



Body robust, elongate, posterior part slightly compressed, highest 

 near the insertion of spinous dorsal; head very large, depressed, broader 

 than body, with a deep longitudinal groove on the top; snout more 

 or less pointed, interorbital space rather flat; eyes supralateral, 

 diameter nearly as long as the interorbital space; mouth large, ter- 

 minal and oblique, its angle extending to a vertical through anterior 

 third of the orbit; lower jaw protruding beyond the upper; lips broad; 

 teeth simple, in two series, inner one depressible and somewhat larger; 

 tongue broad, deeply notched at the tip; gill-openings lateral, running 

 far forward below; width of isthmus nearly equal to the interorbital 

 space; gill-rakers on the first arch short, reduced to mere elevations 

 near the end of arch; nostrils separated, the anterior in a short tube; 

 chin smooth. 



Body covered with large ctenoid scales; head naked; no lateral line. 



Dorsal fins separated; anterior dorsal inserted behind the base of 

 the pectoral, second spine the longest, when depressed, reaching be- 

 yond the origin of second dorsal; fin-rays of second dorsal subequal in 



