80 Miscellaneous. 



total length ; middle ray of ventral very much elongated ; caudal 

 very long, pointed ; black rings on the scales of the lateral line. 

 D. 6/41 ; A. 1/38; V. 1/5 ; L. lat. 58-59. 



8. Gobius pavo. — Length of head contained 3|^, breadth of head 

 6^, depth of body 8^, and caudal fin 4^ times in the total length ; 

 length of eye ^ of length of head ; dark golden brown, with four 

 large indistinctly limited black spots along the lateral line, and two 

 deep-black obliquely placed spbts, separated by a light-yellow spot 

 of nearly the same size behind the fifth spine of the first dorsal. 

 1 D. 6 ; 2 D. 1/8 ; P. 20 ; A. 1/8 ; L. lat. 31 . From the Philip- 

 pines. — Anzeiger der Akad. der Wiss. in Wien, May 16, 1867, 

 p. 119. 



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