152 MR. F. DAY ON NEW INDIAN FISHKS. [Feb. 13, 



along the abdomen. A brilliant golden stripe, two-thirds as wide as 

 a scale, passes from the orbit to the up[)er third of the tail. Pectoral 

 flesh-coloured. Ventral and anal yellow. Caudal reddish, without 

 bands, tipped with black which is externally edged with white. 

 First dorsal milk-white, edged with black; two horizontal yellow lines 

 along it, which are dotted with very fine black points. Second dor- 

 sal milk-white, tipped with black, having one curved horizontal line 

 of yellow, dotted with black points along its centre. 

 Hab. Madras, in the sea, November 1867. 



GOBIUS MADRASPATENSIS, Sp. HOV. 



D. 6/i. p. 17. V. 1/5. A. 9. C. 13. L. 1. 27. L. tr. II. 



Length of three specimens from 2-^ to 3 mches. Length of head 

 i, of pectoral i, of caudal \, of base of first dorsal \, of base of 

 second dorsal \, of base of anal ^ of the total length. Height 

 of head \, of body |, of first dorsal i, of second dorsal \, of ven- 

 tral ^, of anal \ of the total length. 



Eyes. Upper margin near the profile ; diameter \ of length of 

 head, | of a diameter from end of snout, | of a diameter apart. 



Cleft of mouth rather oblique, lower jaw the longest, the posterior 

 extremity of the maxilla extending to beneath the anterior margin 

 of the orbit. 



Teeth. In several closely set villiform bands in both jaws, with 

 an external somewhat enlarged row in the upper, and also in the 

 anterior half of the lower jaw, having externally a large recurved 

 canine tooth, which is rather nearer the symphysis than the angle of 

 the mouth. 



Fins. Dorsal spines flexible, the first with a short filamentous 

 extremity ; none of the pectoral rays silk-like. Caudal rounded. 



Scales. Finely ctenoid, scarcely lineated ; they extend forward to 

 the posterior margin of the orbit, and are smaller on the nape 

 than on the rest of the body. There are. seven horizontal rows 

 between the origin of the second dorsal and that of the anal. 



Colours. Olivaceous, with irregular brownish ill-defined blotches 

 and dots. From five to eight very fine vertical black lines pass 

 downwards from the back to the abdomen, commencing opposite 

 to the base of the ventral, and ending opposite to the middle of the 

 anal, giving the first the appearance of being banded. 



Fins greyish ; first dorsal with two rows of dark blotches, second 

 dorsal irregularly blotched and dotted. Pectoral and anal unspotted. 

 Ventral tipped with black. Caudal minutely dotted in rows. 



Hab. Backwaters in Madras, probably will be found in the sea ; 

 is not a freshwater species. 



GOBIUS NEILLI, sp nOV. 



D. 6/i. P. 15. V. 1. A. 9. C. 13. L.l. 28. L. tr. 9. 

 Length of specimens from l^ to 3y^j inches. 



Length of head ^, of pectoral ^, of caudal I, of base of 

 first dorsal |, of base of second dorsal J, of base of anal i of the 



