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 ACENTROGOBIUS OPHTHALMOT^NIA, (BkeJc.) Streets ['So. 15399]. 



Gohius opMhalmotcenia, Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., vii, 1854, Kokos-eil., i, 46. — 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fish., iii, 1861, 37. 

 Gdbius capistratus, Peters, Arch. f. Naturg., 1855, pt. i, 251. — GunTher, op. cit., iii, 



1861, 36.— Klunzinger, Verh. z.-h. Ges. Wien, 1871, 476. 



D. 6yV A. tV- L. lat. 27. L. trans. 8-9. 



The height of the body is contained from 5 to 5f times in the total 

 length, including the caudal fin ; without the caudal it is from 4 to 4J ; 

 the length of the head is contained from 4 to 4| times in the total 

 length, including caudal; without caudal, from 3^ to 3^ times. Head 

 convex above, nearly as broad as high, the width is contained about 1^ 

 times in the length, and the height about 1^ times in the same ; the 

 diameter of the eye is one-fourth of the length of the head ; interorbital 

 space narrow ; length of the snout about equals the diameter of the 

 eye, obtuse ; upper and lower jaws subequal in front ; the end of the 

 upper extends to under the anterior portion of the eye; cleft of the mouth 

 slightly oblique. Teeth in the jaws in several series, an external series 

 of enlarged teeth ; in the lower jaw on either side a canine tooth, hooked 

 backward. Neck and crown of head, cheeks, and opercles scaly. Scales 

 on the body ctenoid. Dorsal fins not continuous, the spinous portion 

 lower than the soft, which is as high as the body ; spinous more than 

 one-half as long as the soft. Upper pectoral rays silky in smaller speci- 

 mens only ; caudal rounded, as long as the head. Greenish, with five 

 broad, brown streaks along the back, and five others, smaller and re- 

 sembling spots in the smaller specimens, alternating with the upper 

 along the middle line of the body ; small spots scattered over the sides 

 of the body; head minutely punctate, some larger, and in alcohol white, 

 spots on the cheeks; a dark vertical band passing through the center of 

 the eye to the inferior border of the prseoperculum ; a short, oblique 

 band on the operculum; dorsal and caudal fins brown spotted; the other 

 fins minutely dotted with brown. 



Lengths, 1.70, 1.50, 1.35, 1.25. 



Locality : Coral reefs of Oahu. 



GLOSSOGOBIUS GIURIS, [Buch. Ram.) Streets [No. 17995]. 



Gohius giiiris, Buchanan Hamilton, Fish. Ganges, 1822, 51, pi. 33, f. 15. — Cuv. & 

 Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., xii, 1837, 72. — Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., xxii, 

 1849, Blenn. en Gob., 24.— Gunther, Cat. Fish., iii, 1861, 21. 



