3 GOBIOMORPHUS 45 



ippine eleotrid having any similar recognition mark. It is said 

 to reach a length of "ten inches," about 255 millimeters. The 

 Cebu specimen, collected September 15, and a specimen, 96 milli- 

 meters long, collected in January, were both nearly full of ripe 

 eggs. 



First described from the southern coast of China, it is known 

 to occur from Shanghai to the Fiji Islands in the South Pa- 

 cific, and through the East Indies to the Andaman Islands in 

 the Indian Ocean. 



Genus 7. GOBIOMORPHUS Gill 



Gobiomorphus GILL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 15 (1863) 270. 



Small, stout, short-bodied eleotrids having the snout and sides 

 of head marked by numerous rows of skinny ridges which bear 

 rows of fibrils or papillae; the small, slender, subequal teeth are 

 in four or five rows in each jaw, without canines ; cheeks naked 

 or with cycloid scales ; scales in lateral series, 30 to 43 ; isthmus 

 broad. Dorsal VI to VII, 9 to 11 ; anal I, 8 to 11. 



IS. GOBIOMORPHUS ILLOTUS sp. nor. 



PLATE 3, FIG. 4 



Dorsal VI, 1-9 ; anal I, 8 ; there are 30 scales in a longitudinal 

 series and 10 in a transverse series. 



The body rather stout, laterally compressed, the dorsal profile 

 not elevated and nearly a straight line, the ventral profile very 

 little curved so that the two are nearly parallel, the depth 4f 

 times in the length; the head large, its breadth equal to the 

 depth of the body and its length contained 3.2 times in head and 

 trunk together ; the eyes large, high up, and very close together, 

 so that they gaze upward, their diameter 4.5 times in head 

 and equal to the blunt snout ; the interorbital space very narrow, 

 its breadth about 18 times in head and equal to about of an 

 eye diameter; a depressed space under anterior portion of eye 

 gives a pinched appearance to snout in contrast to the broad 

 head; the mouth is small, oblique, with a projecting chin, and 

 does not extend back as far as eye; the slender pointed teeth 

 are small to minute and in four or five rows in upper jaw, those 

 of outer row larger than the rest and widely spaced ; there are 

 four rows in lower jaw; the dorsal length of caudal peduncle 

 is i greater, the ventral length more than its own depth ; the 

 fins all of moderate height; the pectoral reaches to anal pa- 

 pilla and is longer than ventral, which does not reach anus ; the 

 caudal f as long as head. 



