200 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
Family CEPHALACANTHIDZ. 
259. Dactyloptena japonica (Bleeker). 
Giran (Jordan & Evermann). 
Family GOBIID. 
260. Eleotris oxycephala Temminck & Schlegel. 
One specimen from Takao, three and one-half inches long. 
261. Eleotris fusca (Bloch & Schneider). 
Suwata (Jordan & Evermann). 
262. Rhinogobius caninus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Two specimens from Takao, three inches long. 
263. Rhinogobius giurinus (Rutter). 
Kotosho; Taihoku (Jordan & Evermann, as Clenogobius platycephalus). 
264. Glossogobius brunneus (‘Temminck & Schlegel). 
Kotosho; Keerun (Jordan & Evermann). 
265. Glossogobius abacopus sp. nov. (Plate LX XIV.) 
Head to tip of lower jaw, 3 in length; depth 5.5; eye 4 in head; dorsal VI, 
10; anal 10; scales 128-30; snout 3.5 in head; maxillary 2.4; interorbital 
space slightly greater than width of pupil. Body elongate, rather depressed in 
front, tapering gradually backward to the depressed caudal peduncle; depth of 
caudal peduncle 3.4 in head; head pointed; lower jaw projecting width of pupil; 
mouth large, maxillary reaching vertical from back of pupil; jaws, vomer, and 
palatines with rows of fine, sharp-pointed teeth ; tongue deeply notched ; origin of 
spinous dorsal nearly an eye-length behind insertion of ventrals, its base 2.4 in 
head; base of soft dorsal 1.5 in head; longest dorsal spine 2.25; longest ray 2 in 
head ; origin of anal under second ray of soft dorsal, equidistant between base of 
caudal and back of eye; pectoral 1.3 in head; ventrals 1.4; depth of membranous 
cup of united ventrals 3 of length of eye; caudal 1.3 in head, rounded ; a large anal 
papilla with notch behind. 
Color in spirits brownish-olive, back and caudal peduncle crossed obliquely by 
four broad saddle-like bands of darker color; membranes of dorsals and of anal 
chiefly blackish, with some small spot-like intervals of paler on these and on rays; 
caudal and ventrals dark barred or checkered ; pectorals lightly specked with dusky, 
with darker and denser specks below at base; under parts unevenly punctulated, 
the dots forming indistinct bars on chin and lower jaws ; tip of lower jaw blackish. 
This species is near Glossogobius vaisiganis from Samoa, but differs distinctly 
in the details of coloration, notably in the sharply checkered ventral fin. 
