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GOBIID.^. 



twice as long as eye, which is nearly 6 times in length of head and a 

 little less than interorbital width ; jaws equal in front ; mouth extending 

 to below posterior border of eye ; teeth in broad bands, outer scarcely 

 enlarged. Dorsals VI, I 10, well separated from each other, longest 

 rays about ^ length of head. Anal I 10, opposite to second dorsal. 

 Pectoral f length of head. Yentral not reaching vent. Caudal rounded, 

 shorter than head. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. 

 Scales ciliated, 65 in longitudinal series, 20 in transverse series between 

 dorsal and anal. Olive-brown above, pinkish olive beneath ; fins dark 

 brown, with the rays orange. 



Total length 265 millim. 



Sambirano R., N.W. Madagascar. — Type in Leyden Museum. 



Pig. 17. 



Gobius cBiieofascus. 

 Type, after Peters (Eeise Mossamb.). ^. 



10. GOBIUS iENJEOFUiSCUS. 

 Peters, Mou. Berl. Ac. 1852, p. 681 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. Gl (1861) ; Peters, 



Eeise Mossamb. iv. p. 18, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1868); Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, 



Ixxxii. i. 1880, p. 242. 

 GoUus banana (non Guv. & V"al.), Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 376, pi. xxxviii. 



fig. 1 (1891). 



Body cylindrical or feebly compressed ; depth of body 5 to 6 times 

 in total length, length of head 3|- to 3f times. Head 1^ to nearly 

 2 times as long as broad, naked ; snout rounded, with curved upper 

 profile, ^ to I length of head ; eye 4 (young) to 7 times in length of 

 head, equal to interorbital width in adult (1^ in young) ; mouth sub- 

 inferior, extending to below anterior border of eye or not quite so far ; 

 teeth in narrow villiform bands. Dorsal VI, 1 10, rather widely 

 ■separated, longest rays about | length of head. Anal I 10, opposite 



