200 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



Family CEPHALACANTHIDtE. 



259. Dactyloptena japonica (Bleeker). 

 Giran (Jordan & Evermann). 



Family GOBIIDiE. 



260. Eleotris oxycephala Temminck & Schlegel. 



One specimen from Takao, three and one-half inches long. 



261. Eleotris fusca (Bloch & Schneider). 

 Suwata (Jordan & Evermann). 



262. Rhinogobius caninus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Two specimens from Takao, three inches long. 



263. Rhinogobius giurinus (Rutter). 



Kotosho ; Taihoku (Jordan & Evermann, as Gtenogobius platycephalus). 



264. Glossogobius brunneus (Temminck & Schlegel). 

 Kotosho ; Keerun (Jordan & Evermann). 



265. Glossogobius abacopus sp. nov. (Plate LXXIV.) 



Head to tip of lower jaw, 3 in length ; depth 5.5 ; eye 4 in head ; dorsal VI, 

 10; anal 10; scales 128-30; snout 3.5 in head; maxillary 2.4; interorbital 

 space slightly greater than width of pupil. Body elongate, rather depressed in 

 front, tapering gradually backward to the depressed caudal peduncle ; depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3.4 in head ; head pointed ; lower jaw projecting width of pupil ; 

 mouth large, maxillary reaching vertical from back of pupil ; jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines with rows of fine, sharp-pointed teeth ; tongue deeply notched ; origin of 

 spinous dorsal nearly an eye-length behind insertion of ventrals, its base 2.4 in 

 head; base of soft dorsal 1.5 in head ; longest dorsal spine 2.25 ; longest ray 2 in 

 head ; origin of anal under second ray of soft dorsal, equidistant between base of 

 caudal and back of eye; pectoral 1.3 in head ; ventrals 1.4 ; depth of membranous 

 cup of united ventrals § of length of eye ; caudal 1.3 in head, rounded ; a large anal 

 papilla with notch behind. 



Color in spirits brownish-olive, back and caudal peduncle crossed obliquely by 

 four broad saddle-like bands of darker color; membranes of dorsals and of anal 

 chiefly blackish, with some small spot-like intervals of paler on these and on rays ; 

 caudal and ventrals dark barred or checkered ; pectorals lightly specked with dusky, 

 with darker and denser specks below at base ; under parts unevenly punctulated, 

 the dots forming indistinct bars on chin and lower jaws ; tip of lower jaw blackish. 



This species is near Glossogobius vaisiganis from Samoa, but differs distinctly 

 in the details of coloration, notably in the sharply checkered ventral fin. 



