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and anal tins, and in liavin^ four instead of five ventral rays; the fii-st 

 chai-acter is probably variable, while it seems not unlikely that the number 

 of veutnil i-ays was incorrectly counted by Bleeker. 



Loc. — Daruley Island, Torres Strait. Perhaps a pelagic form. 



Genus Eviota, Jeukiun. 



Eviota, Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Fish. Comni., xxii., I'JOli, p. 501 (E. Pjiiphaues, 

 Jenkins). 



Allogobiiis, Waite, Kec. Austr. Mus., v. 'A, 1904, p. llCy (A. virldls, Waite). 



KviOTA viKiDis, Waite 



Allinjohiiis viridh, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v. 3, 1904-, p. 177, pi. .\.\iii., 

 tig. :}. 



Eviutii zounra, Jordan & Scale, Bull. U.S. Pish. Bureau, .\xv., 190(1, p. 

 38G, fig. 75. 



Eviota rir'ulis, McCulloch, Rec. Austr. Mus., ix. 3, 191;}, p. 386. 



Loc. — Queensland coast between Port Curtis and Torres Strait 

 (McCulloch). 



Genus Valenciennea, Bleeker. 



Vuleuclenuea, Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., xi., 1856, p. 412 (Elentn's 

 otn'gata, Broussonet). Id., Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 xxiv., 1901, p. 42. 



Culleleutrls, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1803, p. 270 (E. stri.jata, 

 Broussonet). 



Valenciennesia, Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2), viii., 1874, p. :}72 

 — emended spelling. 



(Jobioniiiriig, Gill, Proc. U.S.Nat. Mus., xi., 1888, p. 69 ((1. taiboa, Lacep.). 

 Not Gobio))iorus, Lacepede. 



Body moderately elongate, a little compressed, covered witli small, 

 ctenoid scales. Head naked, opei'cles unarmed ; jaws subeqnal, with 

 strong, spaced teeth, which are uniserial oi* biserial anteriorly in the lower 

 jaw, but uniserial elsewhere ; a curved canine on each side of the mandible ; 

 j)alate toothless. Isthmus broad. Ventral fins separate, with one spine 

 and five rays. Dorsal fins with six spines and thirteen to nineteen I'ays, 

 anal similar to the second dorsal. 



Nomenclature. — Gill (Loc. cit.) considered Lacepode's name Gohio- 

 mitriia^^ should be used for this genus, but Jordan^^, as the first revisor, 

 applied it to riiihjjutua, and we consider he should be followed. 



"* Qohiomorns, Lacep^de — Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii., 1800, p. 683. 

 i» Jordan— Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas., v., 1883, p. 571. 



