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Genus Awaods, Steiudachtier. 



Awaoiis (Steindacliuer), Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fisli. Bureau, xxv., 

 1906, p. 405. 



AvvAOUS CKASSILABRIS, Gilnther. 



Gohlus crassilahris, Gilnther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 63. Id., 

 Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xx., 1867, p. 61, and Fische 

 Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 178, pi. cviii., fig. b. 



This species has been recorded from Australia by Gilnther. An 

 example is in the Austi'alian Museum from Townsville, Queensland. 



Genus GoBlus, Liumeus. 



GOBIUS ORNATDS, Bilppell. 



(Plate xxxiii., fig. 2.) 



Gohius ornatiis, Rilppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 135. 

 Id , Gilnther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 21, and Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (3), xrx., 1867, p. 61. Id., Kner, Reise " Novara," Zool., 

 i., 1865, p. 173. Id,, Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ivi. i., 

 1867, p. 312. Id., Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 294, pi. Ixiii., fig. 1. 

 Id., Gilnther, Fische Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 172, pi. cxi., fig. a. Id., 

 Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 1877, p. 331. Id., 

 Giinther, Voy. " Challenger," Zool., i. 6, 1880, p. 44. Id., Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ii., 1878, p. 356, and v., 1881, p. 594. 

 Id., Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx. i., 1879, p. 382. Id., 

 Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii., 1906, p. 453. 



Gohlus ve)itralis (Ehrenberg), Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 xii., 1837, p. 113. 



Gohius interstiuctus, Richardson., Iclith. " Ex-ebus & Terror," 1844, p. 3, 

 pi. v., figs. 3-6. 



Gohim ijeriophthnlmoides, Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., i., 1851, p. 249. 



D. 6/11; A. 10; P. 19; V. 1/5; C. 13. Scales in 29 rows between 

 the operculum and the hypural joint, and in 9 between the anterior dorsal 

 and anal rays. Depth 5 in the length to the hypural joint; head 36 in 

 the same. Eye 4 in the head ; interoj-bital width 45 in the eye. Snout 

 longer than the eye, 3"2 in the head ; depth of caudal peduncle 2*1 in the 

 same. 



Cheeks and opercles naked, with minute mucigerous canals and the 

 usual preopercular, nuchal, occipital and rostral pores. Ej-es of moderate 

 size, breaking the profile, and separated by a very narrow interorbital 

 space. Snout a little longer than the eye, its profile oblique and convex. 

 Anterior nostril in a short tube, the posterior a simple opening. Maxil- 

 lary reaching to below the middle of the eye, mandible shorter than the 

 premaxillaries. A band of villiform teeth in each jaw ; a few enlarged, 

 cardiform, curved teeth in the front of the upper jaw, and some smaller 

 ones in the lower ; palate and tongue toothless. Tongue rounded an- 

 teriorly. 



