On the Icelandic Terrestrial Mammalian Fauna. 445 



Journal, 1868, vol. i. p. 264. I add here the descriptions of two 

 others. 



Upeneoides Dorian. 



D. 8|£. A. 8. L. lat. 34. 



The height of the body is contained thrice and three-fourths 

 in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head 

 thrice and two-fifths. Interorbital space flat, its width being 

 equal to that of the orbit, which is two-thirds of the extent of 

 the snout. Eye somewhat nearer to the end of the snout than 

 to the gill-opening. Vomerine teeth forming a continuous 

 angular band. The barbels do not reach to the angle of the 

 prseoperculum. The height of the spinous dorsal fin is three- 

 fourths of that of the body. Tubes of the scales of the lateral 

 line very simple, bi- or trifurcate. Pinkish, with a rather 

 narrow yellow band from the eye to the upper part of the 

 caudal fin. Spinous dorsal with traces of alternate blackish 

 and whitish longitudinal bands. 



Several examples, 4-5 inches long, from Bender Abassi, 

 Persian Gulf. 



Eleotris heterolepis. 



D. 6|13. A. 11. 



Scales ctenoid ; numerous small scales are mixed with large 

 ones, the smaller occupying chiefly the base of the larger. 

 Head broad, depressed as in Batrachus } covered with minute 

 scales ; snout and cheeks with numerous short filaments and 

 fringes. Eyes of minute size, the distance from each other 

 being much greater than that from the end of the snout. 

 Teeth in the jaws in a band, villiform ; but there is an outer 

 series of larger teeth in the upper jaw, and an outer and inner 

 in the lower. Vomerine teeth none. None of the fin-rays 

 produced into filaments. Caudal fin wedge-shaped, rather 

 produced, shorter than the head ; the upper and lower rudi- 

 mentary caudal rays numerous, extending for some distance 

 along the caudal peduncle. Blackish brown. 



Sarawak. Seven inches long. 



LVI. — The Character of the Indigenous Icelandic Terrestrial 

 Mammalian Fauna, with especial reference to Mr, Andrexo 

 Murray's representation of it in his l Geographical Distri- 

 bution of Mammals.'' By Prof. Japetus Steenstrup*. 



The geographical stamp presented by the animal inhabitants 



* Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S. &c, from the ' Videnskabelige 

 Meddelelaer fra Naturhistorisk Forening i Rjobenhavn,' 1867, pp. 51-66. 



