ELEOTKIS. 1 5 



8. ELEOTRIS LEONENSIS, sp. n. 



Botly slightlj' compressed, its depth 4^ to 5 times in total length, 

 length of head 3 to 3^ times. Head as broad as deep or slightly 

 broader, naked ; snout broad, rounded, as long as eye, whicli is 4 times 

 in length of head and equals interorbital width; lower jaw feebly 

 projecting ; maxillary extending to below anterior third or centre 

 of eye ; no canine teeth ; uo prasopercular spine. Dorsals VI, I 8, 

 narrowly separated from each other, longest rays much shorter than 

 head. Anal I 7, opposite to second dorsal. Pectoral f length of head, 

 longer than ventral. Caudal rounded, a little shorter than head. 

 Caudal peduncle If times as long as deep. Scales ciliated, 38-39 in 

 longitudinal series, 13-14 between origin of dorsal and anal. Yellowish, 

 speckled with brown, with seven ill-defined brown cross-bands ; a black 

 bar at the root of the caudal fin ; vertical fins with small blackish spots. 



Total length 37 millim. 



Sierra Leone. 



1-2. Types. Maka. N. W. Thomas, Esq. (P.). 



4-6 7-9. Ad. & ligr. Pujehun and Kenema. „ 



10. Hgr. Victoria. ,, 



9. ELEOTRIS OPHIOCEPHALUS. 



Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xii. p. 239 (1837) ; Bleek. Verh. Batav. Gen. xxii. 1849, 



no. 3, p. 22 ; Guntli. Gat. Fish. iii. p. 107 (1861) ; Playf. & Giinth. Fish. 



Zanzib. p. 73 (1866) ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 312,pl. Ixvii. fig. 2 (1876); Gunth. 



Fish. Siidseo, ii. p. 185, pi. cxii. fig. A (1877) ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. 



p. 379, pi. xxxviii. fig. 8, & xli. a. fig. 3 (1891). 

 Eleotiis porocejjhalus, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 237; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Fish. p. 195 



(1850) ; Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. v. 1853, p. 344 ; Day, 1. c. fig. 1. 

 Eleotris margaritacea, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 240 ; Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 



viii. 1855, p. 453. 

 Eleotris porocephaloides, Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. v. 1853, p. 511 ; Giinth. 



Cat. iii. p. 109. 

 Eleotris cantoris, Giinth. t. c. p. 108 ; Kner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Iviii. i. 1868, p. 328. 

 Eleotris madagascarien sis (non Cuv. & Val.), Playf. & Giinth. 1. c. 

 Ophiocara opJdocephalus, Bleek. Versl. Ak. Amsterd. (2) xi. 1877, p. 28. 

 Ophiocara porocephalus, Bleek. 1. c. 



Body feebly compressed, its depth 4 to 5 times in total length, length 

 of head 3 to 4 times. Head longer than broad, scaly above and on 

 the sides ; a groove on each side behind the eye ; a series of groups of 

 papillee in a groove below lower jaw ; snout broad, rounded, 1 (young) 

 to li times as long as eye, which is 4^ to 6 times in length of head and 



