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Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



height, a little shorter than first dorsal; pectoral fins lateral, large, 

 rounded; ventrals united, forming an oval disc, not adnate to belly; 

 anal inserted below third dorsal ray, posterior rays longer, reaching 

 as far backward as do those of the dorsal, both not reaching the root of 

 caudal; caudal fin rounded. 



Color in formalin dark gray above, lower parts white; upper parts of 

 sides mottled with black; dorsal fins grayish, with small dusky spots 

 in more or less definite longitudinal series; pectorals and caudal with 

 vertical rows of small dark spots; ventral fins whitish; the anal dusky. 



Length of body 145 mm. 



Described from a specimen from Taihoku, collected by T. Aoki 

 in September, 1916. 



Habitat: Taihoku; Tamusui River; Ritakukan, Giran. 



Measurements of Glossogobius brunnetis. 



Locality. 



Taihoku . . 

 Taihoku. . . 

 Taihoku. . . 

 Taihoku. . . 

 Ritakukan 

 Ritakukan 

 Ritakukan 



VI, 10 

 VI, 10 

 VI, 10 

 VI, 10 

 VI, 10 

 VI, 10 

 VI, 10 



20 1,5 

 201,5 

 2o|i,5 

 20 1,5 

 20 I, 5 

 2o'i, 5 

 20 I, 5 



6.83 



7 



6.60 



7 



6.25 

 6 

 6.66 



3 j 5-71 31-10 

 3-25t 6.33!32-io 



3-09 



3 



3 



3 



2.93 



5.6032-10 

 5.66 32- 9 

 6.33 32- 9 

 6.18I32- 9 

 6.33 32- 9 





145 

 150 

 132 

 127 

 173 

 180 

 177 



73. Glossogobius grammepomus (Bleeker). 



1849. Gobius grammepomus Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen., XXII, p. 34. — Gunther, 



Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 64; Malay Archipelago. 

 1849. Gobius melanocephalus Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen., XXII, p. 34. — ■ 



Naturk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind., 1851, I, Fig. 4.— D.\y, Fish, Brit. India, 



p. 292, PI. LXIII, Fig. 6; Seas of India to Malay Archipelago. 

 1861. Gobius lilluratus Steind.^chner, Sitzsb. VVien, Acad., XLII, p. 289, Figs. 



4, 5; Philippine Islands. 



Head 3.17 in length; depth 4.5; D. VI, 1 1 ; A. 1 1 ; P. 17; V. I, 5: 

 width of head 1.42; eye 5.5 in head; interorbital space 4.42; snout 

 2.39; maxillary 2; depth of caudal peduncle 2.58; fifty four scales in a 

 lateral series, fourteen scales between origin of sscond dorsal and 

 that of the anal; gill-rakers 2+4. 



Body thick, dorsal profile arcuate, ventral profile nearly straight, 

 deepest in front of the spinous dorsal, tail compressed; head very 

 large, broader than the body; cheek more or less bulged out; snout 



