794 FISHES OF INDIA. 



diameter 3 in the length, of the head, f a diameter from the end of the snout and placed 

 close together. The greatest width of the head equals | of its length, while its height 

 equals its length excluding the snout. Anterior profile of head somewhat obtuse. Cleft 

 of mouth oblique, lower jaw slightly the longer : the posterior extremity of the maxilla 

 reaches to beneath the first third of the eye. Preopercle spineless, and no wartS on the 

 head. Teeth — in villiform rows, none enlarged. Fins — dorsal spines of moderate strength, 

 the longest nearly half the length of the head. Pectoral as long as the head, some of its 

 rays fine and silk- like : caudal pointed. Scales — finely ctenoid, none on the head : 

 eleven rows between the occiput and front edge of the dorsal fin. Colours — yellowish 

 with a few dark spots on the body and a dark band from the eye to the snout, also a dark 

 mark on the opercle. Upper half of eye black. Dorsal, anal and caudal fins with a gray 

 outer edging : ventrals white. 



Habitat. — A small species from. Madras. 



Page 297. For Gobiodon qtiinqub-steigatus read G. eivdlatds. Add synonyms. 



Oobius rivulatus, Ruppell, Atl. Fisoh. p. 136, and N. "W. F. p. 138. 



? „ histrio, Cuv. and Val. xii, p. 132, pi. cccxlvii. 



Qohiodon rivulatus, Giinther, F. Siidsee, ii, p. 180, t. cix, f. F. and G. 



Page 299. Sictdium halei. 



B. V, D 6/12, P. 19, V. 1/5, A. 11, 0. 14, L. 1. 56, L. tr. 16. 



Length of head b\, of caudal fin 7i, height of body 7 in the total length. Eyes — upper 

 margin on dorsal profile, diameber 4| in the length of the head, li diameters from the 

 end of the snout, and 2 apart. Body subcylindrical. Interorbital space nearly flat, snout 

 obtuse and rounded, an oblique fall from orbit to it. Upper jaw the longer and overhung 

 by the snout : cleft of mouth nearly horizontal : the maxilla reaches to below the middle 

 of the eye. Lips thick. No warts, barbels or scales on the head. Teeth — ^in maxilla, in 

 a single external movable row in the gums, directed almost horizontally, and a single 

 inner row of longer pointed and curved ones, these two rows being divided by a consider- 

 able interspace: a large recurved canine on either side of symphysis of the lower jaw: in a 

 single row of much smaller teeth in the upper jaw. Fins — spines of first dorsal ending in 

 filamentous prolongations, but the longest is not quite so high as the body below it. A con- 

 siderable interspace between the first and second dorsal fins, the rays of the latter are 

 equal to about half the height of the body, and similar to the anal. Ventral does not 

 extend half way to the anus. Caudal rounded at the extremity, its central rays somewhat 

 the longest. Pectoral as long as the head, excluding the snout. Scales — strongly ctenoid, 

 the exposed portion above tvdce as high as wide, and rounded, about 19 rows from occiput to 

 first dorsal fin, the first few anterior rows somewhat small, the remainder on the body of 

 about ihe same size. Colours — greenish brown, a black interorbital band which is con- 

 tinued from the eye to the angle of the mouth : some dark vertical bands on the body : a 

 dark outer edge to ventral and anal, also a dark band to outer edge of caudal, margined 

 externally with white, which is widest at the angles. 



Hahitat — Ceylon, from whence Mr. Haly has sent me an example 3 inches long. 



Page 310. Eleoteis maceolepidota. 



This fish is not E. hoedtii, &c. Bleeker, as observed in Giinther's "Fisohe der Siidsee," ii, 

 p. 185, as the type at Berlin (No. 2155) has D. 7/i, A. ^, the last ray in both being 

 almost double, and therefore counted as two by Bloch. L. 1. 30, L. tr. 13-14, and from 

 26 to 28 scales between the snout and first dorsal fin. 



Page 310. Eleoteis muealis. Add synonym. 



Eleotris lineato-oculatus, Kner, SB. Wien. Ak. Ivi, p. 720, t. iii, f. 1. 



Page 311. Add Eleoteis Ellioti. 



Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 262. 

 Oul nachooli, Tamil. 



B. vi, D. 6/12, P. 21, V. 6, A. 13, C. 13, L. 1. 80, L. tr. 16. 



Length of head 4i-, of caudal fin 4f , height of body 5| in the total length. Eyes — high 

 up, diameter 3| in the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the snout. Height 

 of head f of its length : interorbital space narrow. Cleft of mouth somewhat oblique, 

 the maxilla extends posteriorly to beneath the middle of the eye. Teeth — rather large, in 

 single row in the upper jaw with two small lateral canines : in two or three rows in the 

 centre of the lower jaw, separated from the single lateral row by two large recurved canines. 



