42 PROCEEDINCiS OF THE NATIONAI. MUSEUM. voi.xxiv. 
8. VALENCIENNEA Sleeker. 
Valeneiennea Bleeker, Boeroe, 1856, p. 412 {strigata) . 
Calleleotris Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, p. 270 {strigata). 
Valenciennesia Bleeker, Archives Nederl., 1874, p. 307 {Ktrigata). 
Gohiomorns Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, p. 69 {taiboa = t^tr'igata; not nf Lace- 
pede, 1801; type gi-oiumi = Nomeus, Cuvier). 
This g-eniis is allied to Eleotris., hiiving the same general form. 
Body rather elongate; head not much depressed, with no spine or 
bony crests. Mouth moderate, the jaws siibequal, the teeth uniserial 
or nearly so, unequal; no yomerine teeth; pharyngeal teeth sharp; 
no preopercular spine; head naked, body covered with small, ctenoid 
scales; isthmus very broad; dorsal spines 6, elevated; soft dorsal and 
anal short; caudal convex; ventrals separate, the rays I, 5. 
East Indies; species not ver}' numerous, one of theiu extending 
northward to the Riu Kiu Islands. 
(Named for Achille Valenciennes, the distinguished associate of 
Cuvier.) 
3. VALENCIENNEA MURALIS (Quoy and Gaimard) . 
Eleotris murali.'i Quoy and Gaimard, manuscript, Cuvier and Valenciennes, XII, 
1837, p. 253, pi. cccLVii, Tukopia. — Bleeker, Amlwyna and Ceram, p. 276, 
Ainboyna, Ceram. — GIjnther, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 130, I'hilipj)ines. — 
IsHiKAWA, Cat. Fish., 1897, p. 38, Miyakoshima Is., Riukiu. 
Valeneiennea muralis Bleeker, Boeroe, 1856, p. 412, Boeroe. 
Eleotriodes muralis Bleeker, Goram, p. 212, Gorani. ■ 
Eleotris longipinnis Lay and Bennett, Beechey's Voyage of the Blossom, 1839, 
p. 64, pi. XX, fig. 3, Riukiu, Coll. Lay and Collie. 
Head 3f; depth 5 to 6; D. Vl-1,12; A. 1, 12. Scales 80. Interor- 
bital space half diameter of eye; second, third, and fourtli dorsal 
spines filamentous. (;olor clear green, l)rOwnish in spirits; head and 
body with red longitudinal bands; l)ack with some irregular dark cross 
bars; fins 3'ellow; first dorsal with a lilack spot l)ehind the top of the 
third spine; dorsal and anal fins with red longitudinal bands; caudal 
with red and brown spots. (Giinther.) 
East Indies; not rare. Two Japanese records, the one that of Lay 
and Collie, from Riukiu, with a poor sketch, which does not agree 
with the description, the dorsal filaments being ])roken; the other 
that of a specimen from Miyakoshima in the Riu Kiu Islands, noted 
by Dr. Ishikawa. 
{Mnvdlh^ pertaining to a wall, the color markings resembling the 
lines in a stone wall: "forment un dessin semblable ii des assises de 
pierre de taille.") 
4. ODONTOBUTIS Bleeker. 
Odontohulis Bleeker, Archives Nerlandaises, IX, 1»74, p. 305 {ohscurus) . 
Body stout, not compressed, covered with rather large, ctenoid scales. 
Head large, scaly on top and sides, depressed at the crown; no l)ony 
crests above; mouth rather large, oblique, the chin projecting; teeth 
