1888.] MR. F. DAY ON THE FISHES OF INDIA. 261 



length. Eyes: diameter 3 J in the length of the head, 1 diameter from 

 the end of the snout, and \ of a diameter apart. The greatest width 

 of the head equals its length excluding the snout. Cleft of mouth 

 very slightly oblique ; lower jaw a little the longer ; the posterior 

 extremity of the maxilla reaches to beneath the first third of the 

 orbit. The greatest depth of the preorbital equals one third of the 

 diameter of the eye. All the opercles entire ; a well-marked spine 

 on the opercle, and another on the subopercle: no shoulder-spine. 

 Teeth : two enlarged ones on either side above the symphysis of the 

 lower jaw ; fine ones on the vomer. Fins : second dorsal spine the 

 longest, equalling three fourths of the diameter of the eye. Pectoral 

 nearly as long as the head. Ventral one fourth longer than the 

 head, reaching the base of the seventh anal ray. Caudal slightly 

 rounded. Colours : reddish brown, with five wide and dark vertical 

 bands, extending from the back to the lower surface, these bands 

 being darkest at their edges and disappearing about the middle of the 

 body, where there are also some dark spots ; a brown ocellus at the 

 upper part of the base of the caudal fin, which has some brown 

 spots on it. Numerous brown spots on the snout and upper surface 

 of the head and cheeks, some on the upper edge of the eye, where 

 there are two dark narrow bands. Ventrals white ; first dorsal fin 

 nearly black between the spines ; soft dorsal and anal with fine dots 

 between the rays. 



Hab. Two small specimens from the Andaman Islands. 



GOBIUS LITTOREUS, Sp. nOV. 



B. V. D. 6/11. P. 15. V. 1/5. A. 10. C. 14. L. 1. 22. 



L. tr. 6. 



Length of head 4|, of caudal fin 4^,, height of body 5i in the 

 total length. Eyes : diameter 3 in the length of the head, -i- a dia- 

 meter from the end of the snout, and placed close together" The 

 greatest width of the head equals f of its length, while its height 

 equals its length excluding the snout. Anterior profile of the head 

 somewhat obtuse ; cleft of mouth oblique, lower jaw slightly the 

 longer ; the posterior extremity of the maxilla reaches to beneath 

 the first third of the eye. Preopercle spineless, and no warts on the 

 head. Teeth in villiform rows, none enlarged. Fins : dorsal 

 spines of moderate strength, the longest nearly half the length of the 

 head ; pectoral as long as the head, some of its rays fine and silk- 

 like ; caudal pointed. Scales ctenoid, none on the head ; eleven 

 rows between the occiput and front edge of the dorsal fin. Colours : 

 yellowish, with a few dark spots on the body and a dark band from 

 the eye to the snout, also a dark mark on the opercle. Upper half 

 of eye black. Dorsal, anal, and caudal fins with a grey outer 

 edging ; ventrals white. 



Hab. A small species from Madras. 



Eleotris macrolepidota, Bloch. 



This fish is not Eleotris hoedtii of Bleeker, as stated in Giinther's 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1888, No. XIX. 19 



