1S60.] Report on some Fishes received from Sitany River. 147 



moderately small, or of about the same proportionate size as in E. 

 porocephaius. Mouth unusually small. Form rather short, with 

 the head nearly a fourth of the total length. Hays of the first dorsal 

 elongated into slight filaments. Ten rays in the second dorsal, and 

 eight in the anal fins. Colour albescent-greenish, with numerous ob- 

 scure and more or less confluent dusky spots on the sides (as beift 

 seen through a magnifier) : all the fins being somewhat faintly varie- 

 gated. Length of only specimen 2 in. Port Blair, Andamans. 



I have introduced these Andaman species whilst treating of this 

 genus ; but the species of true Gobitts thence received are very nu- 

 merous, and, for the most part, are difficult to determine. An extraordi- 

 narily beautiful Goby of which I obtained a single specimen, some 

 months ago, in one of the Calcutta fish bazars, appears to be the 



Gr. vikidipu^ctatus, C. V. The fresh fish had a double row of 

 brilliant greenish-eserulean large spots or patches on each side, which 

 immediately and completely disappeared when it was put into spirit. 

 Length 5^- in. 



Amblyoptts ciebattjs, nobis, n. s. A large and remarkable species, 

 much shorter in proportion to its thickness than A. hermanniantts, 

 having the dorsal and anal fins much more elevated than in that 

 species, and the pectorals also considerably broader ; with the tail-fin 

 quite distinct from the dorsal and anal, though connected at their 

 extreme base only, the tail being broader and much less attenuated 

 at tip than in the other; with eyes undiscernible in an adult pre- 

 served in spirit, but a pit in the centre of the face, and numerous 

 flat lobes of skin around and about it ; also with seven flat and 

 pointed cirri about the symphisis of the lower jaw ; and with the mouth 

 more strongly reverted than in A. hebmannianus, having all the 

 teeth black at base. 



D. 5-42.— .4. 44.— P. 13.— V, 1-5.— C. 15. 



Length of specimen 9 in. ; and body li in. deep posterior to the 

 vent. A single example of this very strongly marked species was 

 found among a lot of duplicates of A. hebmannlanus : origin un- 

 known, but probably obtained in the Calcutta bazar. 



Pebiopthalmtjs papilio, Bloch, Schn. : P.fuscatus, nobis, J. A. S. 

 XXIII, 271 (the young). Agrees essentially with M. Valenciennes' 

 figure of a species which he refers to P. papilio from the W. coast 



