AUSTRALIAN GOTillD^ McCULLOClI AND OGlLr.V. 231 



Mapo FUSCDS, liiipjielJ. 

 (Plate xxxiii., fig. ?>.) 



Gobius fasrus, Riippell, Atl. Reise Nordl. Afrika, Fisclie, 1828, p. 137. 



Gohm^ iriDirtiUatus, Riippell, Loc n't., 1S28, p. 138. 



/ Gobius soporator, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 1837, 



p. 56. Id., Jordan & Eveimann, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii. iii., 



1898, p. 2216 (iiJ/i Hjnonjmj). 

 Gobius ulbopnuctatiis, Ciivier & Valenciennes, Loc rit., p. 57. Jil., Riippell, 



Neue Wirbelth., Fisclie, 1838, p. 138. Id., Giinther, Brit. Miis. Cat. 



Fish., iii., 1861, p. 25, and Fisclie Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 172, pi. ex., 



fig. a. Id., Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 294, pi. ixiii., fig. 7. Id., 



Macleay, Proc. Linn. Snc. N.S.Wales, ii., 1878, p. 357, and Loc. cit., 



v., 1881, p. 595. 

 Gobius nebidopuncfatiis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 1837, 



p. 57. LI., Riippell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische., 1838, pp. 138, 139. 



LI., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 26. Id., Khinziuger, 



Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx. i., 1879, p. 382. LI, Maclea,y, Proc. 



Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 31. 

 Gobius iKDidangHuxis, Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., i., 1849, p. 249, 

 Gobius breviceps, Blytli, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1858, p. 271. 

 Gobius liomocyaitus, Vaillant & Sauvage, Revue Mag. Zoo]. (3), iii., 1875, 



p. 280. ■ 

 Gobius danileyensis, Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 



1877, p. 331, pi. xii., fig. 1. 

 Gobius iiigripiun.is, Alleyne & Macleay, Ibid., p. 332, pi. xii., fig. 2. 

 Gobius sau.dvicieiisis, Giinther, "Challenger" Rept , Zool., i., 1880, p. 60. 

 Gobius uiarginalis, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 686. 

 ? Gobius poeciliclithys, Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxiv., 



1901, p. 52, fig'. 4. 

 Mapo fuscus, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxiii. i., 1905, 



p. 483, fig. 212. LI, Weber, " Siboga" Exped., Ivii., 1913, p. 466. 



D. vi/10-11 ; A. 9 ; P. 18 ; V. i/5 ; C. 15. Thirty-six rows of scales 

 between the upper base of the pectoral and the hypural joint, and thir- 

 teen to fourteen between the anterior dorsal and anal rays. 



Depth 4-2 in the length to the hypural joint ; head 3'3 in the same. 

 Breadth between the bases of the pectorals 1*1 in the depth. E^^e equal 

 to the snout, 4 in the head ; interocular space 2-5 in the eye. Depth of 

 the caudal peduncle 22, and caudal fin 1-05 in the head. Fifth dorsal 

 spine 2*2, posterior dorsal and anal rays 1"4 iii the head. 



Head naked with swollen cheeks. Very fine rows of mucigerous 

 pores cross the cheeks and opercles, and one extends from behind the 

 preopercular mai'giu onto the mandible; open pores are present on the 

 snout, interobital space, behind the eye and the preoperculuni, and above 

 the operculum. Eyes close together, cutting the profile. Snout decli- 

 vous ; anterior nostril tubular, the posterior a simple opening before the 

 eye. Mouth a little oblique, with thick fleshy lips, the maxilla reaching 



