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Monacanthus lineolatus Richardson. 



Color in alcohol dirty light brown with from 6 to 8 fine dark 

 lines on the body from head to near caudal. A dark spot below 

 anterior half of soft dorsal, a dark blotch on opercles, margin 

 of ventral membrane black, caudal with 2 dusky bands. This 

 species is well described by Richardson. 6 (6629.) 



TETRAODONTIDiE. (Puffers) 



Spheroides spadiceus (Richardson) . 



This fish is believed to be poisonous. (6366, 6367, 6370, 6373, 

 6374, 6375, 6376, 6377, 6378, 6380, 6381, 6382, 6384, 6385.) 



ELEOTRID^. 6 (Eleotrids) 



Bostrychus sinensis (Lacepede). 



This species is very common in Hongkong. It is distinguished 

 by the black ocellus on the upper base of the caudal rays. Length, 

 110 to 150 millimeters. (6414, 6424, 6427, 6450, 6465.) 



Butis butis (Hamilton-Buchanan). 



Length, 117 millimeters. (6433.) 

 Butis caperata Cantor. 



Distinguished from B. butis by the shorter head, shorter snout, 

 and larger eye. Length, 65 millimeters. (6495.) 



GOBIILVE. (Gobies) 



Boleophthalmus chinensis (Osbeck) . 



Gobius pectinirostris Gmelin. 

 Boleophthalmus boddaerti Schlegfl. 



Length, 90 to 110 millimeters. (6410, 6413, 6454, 6466, 6468, 

 6469.) 



Boleophthalmus glaucus Day. 



Length, 67 millimeters. (6531.) 

 Rhinogobius hongkongensis Seale, sp. nov. Plate I, fig. 2. 



Head, 4; depth, 5.60 without caudal; eye, 3.1 in head; snout 

 equal to eye; interorbital space a narrow ridge; dorsal, VI, 12; 

 anal, 11; scales 25 to end of vertebra, 8i in a vertical series; 



' Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1845 (1846), 201. 



' It seems advisable to advance the subfamily of Eleotrinae to the posi- 

 tion of a family characterized by the separate ventrals, and thus in part 

 separating the cumbersome family Gobiidae. 



