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last at base of caudal; dorsals and caudal finely check- 

 ered and barred with dark brownish orange and blackish; 

 anal mottled; a dark shoulder spot; a dark bar before eye 

 and one below eye; ventrals dusky, the edge pale. 



The species seems nearest allied to Gobiiis sagittula. 



One specimen, i^ inches long, numbered 3095 on the 

 L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. register. 



206. Garmannia paradoxa (Gtlnther). Plate xlix. 



A single specimen found on muddy bottom among the 

 mangroves lining the estuary. 



Head 3^; depth 4^ ; D. VI-ii ; A. 9; eye 4 in head; 

 snout 4}:| ; pectoral i}i in head; dorsal spine i-g-. 



Form of Gohiosoma bosci. Body compressed; head 

 broad and depressed, with tumid cheeks; snout not very 

 blunt, short, oblique -truncate; eyes rather large, high, 

 the maxillary not produced, extending to their posterior 

 margin; mouth large, oblique; lower jaw heavy, slightly 

 projecting; teeth strong; gill-openings narrow, not wider 

 than base of pectoral. First dorsal rather high, the first 

 spine filamentous, reaching past soft dorsal; other fins 

 low. Head and anterior half of body to front of soft dor- 

 sal naked; scattering scales coming in above, twelve rows 

 of imbricated slightly ctenoid scales along median line of 

 caudal peduncle and forward to middle of soft dorsal, 

 the scaled area about as long as head, the upper parts 

 better scaled than lower. No flaps on shoulder girdle. 



Olivaceous with seven or eight dark cross-shades — two 

 on head, one across gill-openings, one behind pectoral, 

 and a broad one below soft dorsal; dorsals dusky, the fil- 

 amentous ray pink; lower half of soft dorsal yellowish, 

 upper dusky; lower fins black; caudal dusky; a dark speck 

 at angle of opercle; skin everywhere punctate with black; 

 a pale olive bar at base of caudal. 



