AUSTRALIAN GOBIID.?: McCULLOCH AND OOILEY. 201 



Apocryptes riiiicroiihthalmns, Casteluan, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict., ii., 1873, 



p. 87. 

 Gohiosoma qnttnlatam, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ii., 1878, p. 



357, pi. ix., fig. 6. 

 ? Gohiosoma ]u(Hrtiil(tniin, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, viii., 1884, 



p. 449. 

 Scartelaos viridii^, Jordan & Seale, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxviii., 1905, p. 



794, fig. 5. 

 rseiidapocnipteii ijntf nhitiiiu, Jordan & Seale, Bnll. U.S. Fish. Bureau, 



XXV., i906, p. 408. 

 ? Ps^euiiapocriiptes 'piuictiilarnni, Jordan & Seale, Ihuh 



D. V, i/26-27 ; A. i/24-26 ; P. 21 ; V. i/5 ; C. 17. Depth of the body 

 6-5-9-1 in its length"; and equal to about half the length of the head; 

 head 3-6-4-4 in the length of the body, one-fifth to one-third wider than 

 deep, and two-fifths to two-thirds longer than wide. Eye 3-75-5-5 in the 

 head and shorter than the snout, which is 3-1-3-8 in the head. Breadth 

 of the body behind the pectorals 1"2-1"5 in the depth. 



Upper surface and sides of the head with non-imbricate rudimentary 

 scales, appearing as pit-like depressions. Profile of the snout strongly 

 rounded. Anterior border of the upper lip with eleven unequal papillse, 

 the lateral border crenulate. Mandible with a well developed mental 

 barbule. Cleft of the mouth extending to below the posterior border of 

 the eye, its length, 2-3-2-8 in that of the head. Upper jaw with seven or 

 eight pairs of enlarged subulate teeth, which are followed by six to eight 

 similar, but much smaller, teeth ; mandible with fifteen ])airs of enlarged 

 teeth, and four smaller ones behind them ; a pair of strong recurved 

 canines at the symphysis. 



Body genth' tapering from the shoulders backward, and everywhere, 

 covered with minute scales. 



Spinous dorsal originating above the posterior third of the adpressed 

 ventrals ; the length of its nari-ow base, including the small terminal 

 membrane, is somewhat less than the length of the snout. Third dorsal 

 spine longest, and filamentous; in the male it may extend to the eighteenth 

 dorsal ray, its length being 2-1 in that of the body; in the female it 

 sometimes reaches the sixth ray, and may be 3-87 in the body-length. 

 Second dorsal rays gradually increasing to or nearly to the antepenultimate, 

 the longest 2-2-2-8 in the head ; membi^ane of the last ray narrowly united 

 to the upper caudal ray. Anal originating below the second dorsal ray, 

 and i-ather lower than that fin ; the membrane of the last ray just reaches 

 the base of the caudal. Median pectoral rays longest, extending to below 

 the last dorsal spine, and 1-8-21 in the head. Ventrals inserted slightly 

 in advance of the pectoral, as long as or a little longer than that fin. 

 Middle caudal rays longest, 3-4-41 in the body-length. 



« The body is deeper iu smaller examples than in larpjer ones owing to the 

 gradual elongation of the tail with age. In a specimen 68 mm. long, the vent is 

 nearer the ba"se of the caudal than the end of the snout; in another measuring 105 

 mm., it is midway between those two points, while in a 136 mm. example it is one- 

 fourth nearer the end of the snout. 



