AUSTRALIAN CiOBIID^ McCULLOCH AND OGILBY. 251 



The colour is completely faded in tlie type. According to Macleay, 

 it was pale reddish or yellowish brown, with a few indistinct cross-bars of 

 a deeper brown ; fins of a blackish tinge without spots ; opercles dotted 

 with minute spots. 



Described and figured from the typical and unique example preserved 

 in the Macleay Museum, which is 65 mm. long. It is very dilapidated, so 

 the forms of the caudal and pectoral fins and the extent of the squamation 

 may not be accurate in our figure. It is apparently a species of Waitea. 



Loc. — Port Darwin. 



Amblygobids, Bleeker. 



Amblygobius, Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., ix., 1874, p. 322 (Gohius 

 sjjhynx, Cuv. & Val.). 



Odontogobiux, Bleeker, Ibid., p. 323 (Gobius byiweyisis, Rich.). 



Body of moderate breadth, compressed. Scales rather small, mostly 

 ctenoid but cycloid anteriorly, covering the breast and base of the pectoral ; 

 a few imperfect scales on the upper part of the operculum. Head with 

 fine rows of mucigerous papillge. Snout somewhat tumid, jaws subequal. 

 Mouth moderate, a little oblique ; no barbies. An outer row of larger teeth 

 in each jaw anteriorly, followed by an inner series of smaller ones ; large 

 canines on the sides of the mandible ; palate toothless. Tongue subtrun- 

 cate anteriorly, its tip free. Grill-openings broad, separated by a wide 

 isthmus ; shoulder-girdle smooth. Pseudobranchiae present ; gill-rakers 

 few, and obsolete on the outer anterior margin of the first arch. Dorsals 

 almost contiguous, with about vi/15 rays ; anal opposite and of similar 

 form to the second dorsal, with about 15 rays. Ventrals large, united, 

 with i/5 rays. Caudal rounded. 



a. Ventrals not reaching the vent in adults. Caudal fin plain ; cross-bands of body 

 ill defined bynoensis. 



aa. Ventrals reaching to or beyond the vent in adults. Caudal fin with one or more 

 dark spots ; cross-bands of body well defined phalaena. 



Amblygobius bynoensis, Bichardsou. 



(Plate XXXV., fig. 2.) 



Gobius bynoensis, Richardson, Ichth. " Ereb. & Terr.," 1844, p. 1, pi. i., 

 figs. 1-2. Id., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 70. Id., 

 Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wieu., ivi. i., 1867, p. 314. Id., 

 Giiuther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), xx., 1867, p. 61. Id., Peters, 

 Monatsbr. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 266. Id., Day, Fish. India, 

 1876, p. 284, pi. Ixi., fig. 3. Id., Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, Ixxx. i., 1879, p. 382. Id., Giinther, " Challenger " Rept., 

 Zool., i., 1880, p. 44. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 

 1881, p. 607. Id., Weber, Zool. Forschr. Austr., v., 1895, p. 269. 



Gobius stethophthaliuas, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., i., 1851, p. 249, 

 fig. 17. 



