SLENDEK GOBY. ^3 



lower angle being more cut away, and the ascending margin 

 more oblique ; a larger space between it and the pectorals : 

 the two dorsals further asunder : rays of the second dorsal 

 longer ; these rays also gradually increasing in length, instead 

 of decreasing^ the posterior ones being the longest in the fin, 

 and rather more than equalling the whole depth : rays of the 

 anal in like manner longer than in G. minutiis. 

 The fin-rays in number are — 



D.6. 12 : P. 21 : V. 12 : A. 12. : C. 13, and two short rays. 



In all other respects similar. The colours also resembling 

 those of minutus, with the exception of the anal and ventral 

 fins, which are dusky, approaching to black in some places, 

 instead of plain white, as in the minutus.'''' 



The vignette below represents the cranium of Gohius 

 niger. 



