14(J MB. r. BAY ON THE OEOGBAPHIOAL DISTKIBUTIOJ^ OF 



lucbistau thi'ougli the seas of India to China. 13. S. glaucus, 

 Day, seas of India. 1-1. 8. carittta ', Cut. cfeYal., seas of India to 

 the Malay archipelago. 15. S. osseits, Day, Malabar coast of 

 India. 



The foregoing 15 species of marine and estuary Scitenas can be 

 divided thus : — 6 as yet recorded only from India ; 8 India to the 

 Malay archipelago, or China, or Japan ; 1 from India and Africa 

 to the Malay archipelago. But the fact must not be overlooked 

 that there has been no worker along the Afi'iean coast as Bleeker 

 has worked the fish-fauna of the Malay archipelago. 



Fam. GrOBiiDJj. 



Genus Gobius. 



G. GiURis*, Ham. Buck. 



Fresh water throughout the plains of India, Sind, Ceylon, and Burma to 

 the Malay archipelago and east coast of Africa; also found along the 

 coast. 



The following species inhabit the seas and estuaries, some as- 

 cending up tidal rivers : — 



1. G. lpwensis\ Richardson, sea at Andamans and Malay 

 archipelago. 2. G. seafaseiattts, Day, sea, Madras. 3. G. bre- 

 virostris, Giinther, sea at Kurrachee in Sind, also China. 4. G. 

 griseus, Day, estuaries, Madras. 5. G. polynema, Bleeker, seas of 

 India and Malay archipelago. 6. G. macrostoma, Steind., sea, 

 Bombay. 7. G. viridwunctatus % Cuv. & Val., from Sind through 

 the seas of India to the Malay archipelago. 8. G. ocellafus, 

 Day, sea, Sind and Bombay. 9. G. Masoni, Day, sea, Bombay. 



10. G. cyanomos *, Bleeker, seas of India to the Malay archipelago. 



11. G. criniger ^, Cuv. & Yal., seas of east coast of Africa, India, 

 to the Malay archipelago. 12. G. putitang'^, Bleeker, estuaries 



1 Includes iS. caroima, C. & V. 



* Includes : — G. korah mottah, koku, and bidlee kokah, Eussell ; G. kiiiyah, 

 Sykes ; G. kokius, cafebus, and kora, Cuv. & Yal. ; G. plafycephalus, Peters ; 

 G. spectahilis, Giinther. 



5 Includes G. sfefhophthalmus, Bleeker, 



^ Includes: — G, nima moftah, Bussell; G, vencnatits, Cuv. & Val. ; G. chlo- 

 rostigma, Bleeker, 



'' Includes G. sctosus, Jerdon (not Cut. & Val.). 



' Includes: — G. hrevifilis, Cuv. & Val.; G. Kreffii, Steind.; G. canimts, 

 Giinther and Playfair, Fish. Zanz. (not. Cuv & Val.), 



^ Includes G, andamancnsid, Day. 



