AUSTRALIAN GOBIID^ McCULLOCH AND OGILBT. 255 



on its basal portion, and there is no marginal band. A specimen 86 mm. 

 long is very similar to the one illustrated, but the dark margins of the 

 cross-bands have disappeared ; the caudal has thi'ee dark spots, and the 

 soft dorsal has a dark median stripe above which are numerous rounded 

 light spots in addition to the markings illustrated ; the anal has a dark 

 longitudinal stripe with light spots on each side of it, and a grey border. 

 The largest example is very dark brown, which colour obscures most of 

 the other mai^king ; the pectoral and caudal are light, but the latter has a 

 broad brown margin, and an inner dusky area with light spots. 



A second series of nine specimens from the New Hebi'ides, 33-115 

 mm, long, exhibits a precisely similar range of variation. 



Synonymy. — The typical examples of G. anHulatus, De Vis, agree in 

 all details with those described above. 



Locs. — Murray Island, Torres Strait ; coll. Hedley & McCulloch. 

 Darnley Island, Torres Strait; coll. Dr. J. R. Tosh. Cape York, Queens- 

 land ; cotypes of G. anwidatus. Two Isles, off Cape Bedford, Queensland ; 

 coll. Hedley & Briggs. Masthead Island, off Port Cui-tis, Queensland ; 

 coll. D. B. Fry. New Hebrides ; coll. Cummins & Stevens. 



This species has further been I'ecorded from Monte Bello Islands, 

 Western Australia, by Regan. 



(GoBlDS) MICROLEPIDOTUS, Gastehicm. 



Gobius microlepidotus, Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austr. (Vict. Offic. Rec. 

 Philad. Exhib.), 1875, p. 20. 



The very brief description of this species suggests that it is an 

 Amblygohius, and is perhaps identical with G. hynoeusis. 



Loc. — Cape York (Castelnau). 



Genus Cryptocentrds (Ehrenherg), Guvier Sj' Valenciennes. 



CrYVTOCENTRUS GOBIOIDES, OgilJnj. 



(Plate xxxvi., fig. 1.) 



Gobius cristatns, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 610 



(not of Day). 

 Gobius -gobioides, Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N.S.Wales, 1886, p. 35 ; substitute 



name. Id., Waite, Mem. N.S.Wales Nat. Club, ii., 1904, p. 46. 



Amblygobius gobioides, Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xxiii., 1910, p. 25. 



D. vi/13; A. 12; P. 16; V. i/5 ; C. 15. Scales very small, about 90 

 between the axil and the hypural joint. 



Depth of the body before the ventrals 5-6 in the leugth to the hypural 

 joint ; head 3-8 in the same. Eye 6 in the head, shorter than the snout, 

 which is 4-8 in the head; interocular space 1-5 in the eye. Depth of 

 caudal peduncle 24 in the head. Breadth at the pectoral bases 1-3 in 

 the depth. 



