new Species of Gobiide. 145 
longer than the diameter of the eye, which is rather more 
than one fifth of the length of the head. Head naked; small 
scales on nape. No canines, but the outer series of the teeth 
enlarged. Upper pectoral rays not silk-like. Ventral rather 
narrow and tubular, not reaching quite to the vent ; pectorals 
reaching slightly beyond the ventrals, to the vent. Reddish 
brown, becoming paler on the lower parts of the body; head 
covered with small black spots and dots ; a longitudinal lateral 
dark brown band from within the axil of the pectoral to the 
caudal. 
One specimen, in the collection of the British Museum, from 
Fernando Po, was collected by Capt. Burten, after whom it is 
named. Length 33 inches. 
Gobius castaneus, sp. n. 
D.7q: Anz. L. lat. 70-72. 
The height of the body is one sixth, the length of the 
head one fourth, of the total length. Head as broad as high, 
naked, as well as the nape in one specimen, in the other a 
few scales in front of the dorsal. Scales small. Interorbital 
space a little less than the diameter of the eye, which is one 
fifth of the length of the head. Snout as long as the eye; 
cleft of the mouth oblique, with the lower jaw prominent. 
Teeth small; canines none. The first dorsal is not so high 
as the body ; the second is higher than the first, and nearly 
as high as the body. Caudal rounded. Light brown, deeper 
on the back ; anal and ventral dark-coloured or darker towards 
their extremities ; dorsal fins each with three or four longitu- 
dinal rows of dark brown dots ; caudal similarly dotted. 
Two small specimens in the collection of the British Museum 
represent this species; they are from Nagasaki. 
Euctenogobius strigatus, sp. n. 
D. 6 A.  L. lat. 58. 
The height of the body is one seventh of the total length ; 
the length of the head is contained four times and a half in the 
same. ‘The eyes are almost close together, equal to the length 
of the snout in diameter, and not quite one third of the length 
of the head. Head naked, nape scaly ; the length of the head 
is double its breadth and height, which are equal. Fourteen 
longitudinal series of scales between the dorsal and anal fins. 
Ventral distant from vent by about half its length. First 
dorsal lower than the second. Reddish brown, with numerous 
darker narrow vertical streaks on each side of the body from 
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