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mark appears to be a small black one on the upper angle of the gill cover. 
This spot resembles that in the same position on G. citrinus and may indicate 
kinship, but there are no traces of the characteristic vertical streaks of that 
species, and the dorsals are not separated. 
Found off Nairai, Fiji Islands. 
Gobioides totoyensis, sp. nov. 
Plate 3, Figs. 1 and 2. 
Br r4:.Ds.6:+- 455A. 453, V. 5% Pa7 + 6: 
Body compressed, depth one-eighth and body cavity one-third of the total 
length. A fold below the abdomen behind the ventrals, somewhat like the 
tropeic fold in certain sharks. Head short, about one-sixth of the entire length, 
narrow above, apparently with a swollen tract or cushion on the forehead, from 
occiput to mouth. Snout short, upper jaws shorter, lower jaws stronger, chin 
protruding. Mouth medium, cleft rising obliquely forward ; maxillary reach- 
ing to a point below the eye ; lips thick; teeth small, in villiform bands, a very 
small canine at each side above and below. Eyes minute. No barbels. Gill 
openings wider than the bases of the pectorals, upper angle of each opening for- 
ward of the middle of the base of the fin. Dorsal, anal, and caudal continuous ; 
the skin enveloping them not especially thick. Anterior dorsal spine above the 
mid-length of the pectoral fin ; first six rays of the fin lower and closer together 
than the following rays, but not separated from the balance of the fin by a 
space. Caudal elongate, one-seventh of the total, pointed, united by mem- 
brane with dorsal and anal. Anal origin below the eleventh ray of the dorsal. 
Ventrals short, longer than the pectorals, subtruncate, parallel, close together, 
with inner edges joined together and to the body, appearing externally as if 
containing but four rays each. Pectorals not extending as far backward as the 
ventrals, twice as wide as long, with protruding rays, in two sections of which 
the lower —six rays—is truncate, and the upper, of eight or nine rays, is 
longer and pointed. Lateral line distinct on the head, in a median tube an- 
teriorly on the flank and backward to the scaly portion, below the thirty-fifth 
ray of the dorsal, where in a series of larger scales it has the ordinary appear- 
ance on bony fishes. Scales cycloid, appearing to be absent from the anterior 
three-fifths of the body; backward they are comparatively large. 
Color uniform brownish white, probably yellowish or flesh color in life. 
Taken in Totoya, Fiji Islands, outside of Kini-kini and inside of thirty 
fathoms depth. 
Periophthalmus schlosseri PAu.; Bu. Scun. 
Dee 4-18 A.11. 
The descriptions of P. schlossert do not mention several transverse bands 
which cross the back, passing down and obliquely forward on the flanks of 
