533 GOBILDiE. 



1. ELEOTEIS NANUS. 

 Boulenger, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 446. 



Body cylindrical or a little compressed, its depth nearly equal to the length of the 

 head and contained four times in the total length. Head as broad as deep, naked ; 

 snout broad, rounded, as long as the eye, the diameter of which is contained four 

 times in the length of the head and nearly equals the interorbital width; lower jaw 

 projecting ; maxillary extending to below the anterior border of the eye ; no canine 

 teeth ; no prseopercular spine. Dorsal fins well separated from each other, the first 



Kg. 39. 



Eleotris nanus. x 2. 



with 5 very slender rays, the second with 10 rays, the longest of which measure about 

 two-thirds the length of the head. Anal fin opposite to the second dorsal, with 8 rays. 

 Pectoral fin about three-fourths the length of the head, nearly as long as the ventral 

 fin. Caudal fin rounded, nearly as long as the head. Caudal peduncle twice as long 

 as deep. Scales strongly ciliated, 29 or 30 in a longitudinal series, 9 between the 

 origin of the second dorsal fin and the anal. 





Measurements (in millimetres). 



Total length 38 



„ „ (without caudal) . 31 



Length of head ° 



Width o£ head 6 



Length of snout 2 



Diameter of eye ...» 2 



Interorbital width • • 2 



Longest ray of dorsal &k 



Length of pectoral 6 



ventral ^ 



