862 LIEUT.-COL. PLAYFAIR ON [NoV. 14, 



125. A. MULTIOCELLATUS. 



Chironectes multiocellatus, Cuv. & Val. xii. p. 420. 

 Antennarius leucosoma, Bleek. Nat. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. 1854, 

 Floris, p. 328. 



Chironectes leprosus, Eyd. & Soul. Voy. Bonite, Zool. i. p. 187. 

 Antennarius multiocellatus, Giinth. Fish. iii. p. 194. 



Var. a. D. 3|13. A. 7. P. 10. 



Colour. — Blackish, marbled with lighter and with red ; the upper 

 part of the body with numerous large black ocelli, the lower part 

 thickly covered with small black spots. Four large black ocelli 

 along the edge of the soft dorsal, two on anal, and four on caudal. 



Lejigth 5 inches. 



Var. b. D. 3 I 12. A. 6. P. 10. 



Colour. — Whitish, dotted all over with blackish, especially on the 

 belly ; three or four large spots on the sides, one at the base of the 

 third dorsal spine, three along the margin, and two along the base of 

 anal, and three arranged as a triangle on the caudal. 



Length 4 inches. 



Hub. Seychelles ; Caribbean Seas ; East-Indian archipelago ; 

 Sandwich Islands. 



GOBIID.E. 



126. GOBIUS ORNATUS. 



Gobius ornatus, Biipp. Atlas, Fische, p. 135; N.W. Fische, p. 137; 

 Giinth. Fish. iii. p 21. 



6r. ventralis (Ehrenb.), Cuv. & Val. xii. p. 113. 



G. intersti}ictus, Richards. Voy. Ereb. & Terr. Fish. p. 3, pi. 5. 

 f. 3-6. 



Hab. Seychelles; Red Sea ; East-Indian archipelago ; Philippine 

 Islands ; north-west coast of Australia. 



127. G. CANiNUS, C. & V. 



128. Periophthalmus koelreuteri, C. & V. 



129. Eleotris ophiocephalus, K. & v. H. 



130. E. ruse A, Schn. 



131. E. soARESi, Playf. 



132. E. CYANOSTIGMA. 



? Eleotris cyanostiymn, Bleek. Natur. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. 1855, 

 Kokos, iv. p. 452 ; Giinth. Fish. iii. p. 119. 



1 Eleotriodes cyanostigma, Bleek. Enum. Sp. p. 112. 



D. 6^. A. |. L. lat. 26-28. 



Diagnosis. — The third dorsal spine produced into a filament. 

 Nine series of scales between the root of posterior dorsal and anal. 



