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last at base of caudal; dorsals and caudal finely check- 
ered and barred with dark brownish orange and blackish; 
anal mottled; a dark shoulder spot; a dark bar before eye 
and one below eye; ventrals dusky, the edge pale. 
The species seems nearest allied to Gobzus sagittula. 
One specimen, 1% inches long, numbered 3095 on the 
eS. yrs Univ. Meus? eotster: 
206. Garmannia paradoxa (Giinther). Plate xlix. 
A single specimen found on muddy bottom among the 
mangroves lining the estuary. 
Head 3%; depth 4%; D. VI-11; A. 9; eye 4 in head; 
snout 44% ; pectoral 1% in head; dorsal spine 13. 
Form of Gobzosoma bosct. Body compressed; head 
broad and depressed, with tumid cheeks; snout not very 
blunt, short, oblique-truncate; eyes rather large, high, 
the maxillary not produced, extending to their posterior 
margin; mouth large, oblique; lower jaw heavy, slightly 
projecting; teeth strong; gill-openings narrow, not wider 
than base of pectoral. First dorsal rather high, the first 
spine filamentous, reaching past soft dorsal; other fins 
low. Head and anterior half of body to front of soft dor- 
sal naked; scattering scales coming in above, twelve rows 
of imbricated slightly ctenoid scales along median line of 
caudal peduncle and forward to middle of soft dorsal, 
the scaled area about as long as head, the upper parts 
better scaled than lower. No flaps on shoulder girdle. 
Olivaceous with seven or eight dark cross-shades—two 
on head, one across gill-openings, one behind pectoral, 
and a broad one below soft dorsal; dorsals dusky, the fil- 
amentous ray pink; lower half of soft dorsal yellowish, 
upper dusky; lower fins black; caudal dusky; a dark speck 
at angle of opercle; skin everywhere punctate with black; 
a pale olive bar at base of caudal. 
