12 GOBIID.l!;. 



4. ELEOTRIS TOHIZON.E. 



Steiii.l. Sit/.I). Ak. Wien, Ixxxii. i. 1880, p. 245, pi. ii. fig. 2. 



Eleotris hiitis, part., Sauv. Hi.st. Madag., Poiss. pi. xli.A. fig. 2 (181)1). 



Eleotris pecloraVis, Regan, Ilev. Suisse Zool. ii. 1003, ji. 41a, pi. xiii. fig. 2. 



Head and body compressed ; depth of body equal to k'ngtli of head, 

 3f to 4 times in total length. Head longer than deep, scaly ; snout 

 shorter tlian eye, which is 3i to 4 times in length of head and equals 

 interorbital widtli ; lower jaw slightly projecting ; mouth not extending 

 to vertical of anterior border of eye; teeth small, in a narrow band; 

 no canines; no prsopercular spine. Dorsals VI, I 8, widely separated 

 from each other. Anal I 10. Pectoral | length of head, scarcely 

 longer than ventral. Caudal rounded-subtruncato. Caudal peduncle 

 nearly twice as long as deep. 25-27 scales in longitudinal series, 9-10 

 in transverse series. Brownish ; a blackish bar at base of pectoral ; 

 small dark spots on second dorsal and dark streaks across caudal. 



Total length 85 millim. 



Madagascar. — Types in Vienna Museum. 



Fig. 7. 



Eleotris tohhonce. 

 Type, after Steindaclmer {I. c). 



5. ELEOTRIS N.4NA. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1001, p. 44fi, and Fish. Nile, p. i>?,S, lig. 

 (10O7) ; rellogr. Poiss. Bass. Tchad, p. 137, fig. (1014). 



Body cylindrical or a little compressed, its depth nearly cqu;d to • 

 length of head and 4 times in total length. Head as broad as deep, naked ; 

 snout broad, rounded, as long as eye, the diameter of wliich is 4 times 

 in lengtli of head and nearly equals interorbital width ; lower jaw 

 projecting; maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye; no 

 canine teeth ; no prajopercular spine. Dorsals V, I 9, well separated 

 from each other, longest rays about § length of head. Anal I 7, its 

 origin a little behind that of second dorsal. Pectoral about f length 

 of head, nearly as long as ventral. Caudal rounded, nearly as long as 



