10 



GOBIID.^. 



27-30. All. & hgr. 

 31-34. Ad. 

 35-37. Ad. 



Forcados, S. Nigeria. 

 Ohiloango Town. 

 S. Nicolas R., Little Fish 

 Bay, Angola. 



A. E. Kitson, Esq. (P.). 

 Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 

 J. J. Monteiro, Esq. (P.). 



2. ELEOTRIS PLEUROPS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) iii. 1909, p. 42. 



Body rather strongly compressed, its depth 3 times in total length, 

 length of head 3^ times. Head as broad as deep, flat above, the 

 whole upper surface and sides scaly ; snout broad, truncate, as long 

 as eye ; eye perfectly lateral, 4 times in length of head and twice in 

 interorbital width ; lower jaw not projecting ; maxillary not quite 



Fig. 5. 



Eleotris pleurops. 

 Type. 



reaching to below anterior border of eye ; no canine teeth ; no prte- 

 opercular spine. Dorsals VII, I 8, narrowly separated from each other, 

 ■ longest rays f length of head. Anal I 10, opposite to second dorsal. 

 Pectoral f length of head, ventral f . Caudal rounded-subacuminate, 

 as long as head. Caudal peduncle li times as long as deep. Scales 

 strongly ciliated, 32 in a longitudinal series, 10 between origin of 

 dorsal and anal. Dark brown, lighter on the belly ; fins brown, dorsals 

 with round whitish spots. 



Total length 75 millim. 



Lower Niger. 



^- ^'^'P®- Lo^^er Niger. Mr. J. Paul Arnold (P.). 



3. ELEOTRIS BUTIS. 

 Cheilodipterus hutis, Ham. Buchan. Fish. Ganges, p. 57 (1822) ; Gray & Hardw. 



111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. xciii. fig. 3 (1834). 

 FAeotru humeralis, CuY. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xii. p. 216 (1837) j Bleek. Verh. 



Batav. (Jen. xxii. 1849, no. 3, p. 22. 



