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Examples of this species exist in the British Museum and in the collection of the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, procured at Macao by John Reeves, Esq. and the Rev. George Vachell. 

 The College of Surgeons also possesses specimens obtained at Woosung in the estuary of 

 Yang tse kiang by Sir Everard Home. The species has much resemblance to the Gobius viridii 

 of Buchanan Hamilton, pi. 32. f. 12 {Boleophthalmus viridis of the ' Histoire des Poissons,' 

 xii. p. 213), in form and also in the spotting, but the colours differ, and the Indian fish has a 

 higher profile. It is probably the species noticed from a Chinese painting in the ' Histoire 

 des Poissons' (xii. p. 215) as bearing a resemblance to B. histiophorus. 



Hab. China seas. Macao. Muddy places, Whampoa. Woosung. 

 Boleophthalmus chinensis, C. et V. xii. p. 215. 



Described solely from a Chinese painting as having a high pointed first dorsal, and a gray 

 body sprinkled with brown specks, and more scattered clusters of white and green points ; 

 also four deep gray bands on the bases of the pectorals. 



Hab. Canton. 



Boleophthalmus sinicus, C et V. xii. p. 215. 



Also described from a drawing. It is grayish-brown, dotted finely with the same, and 

 marked by scattered green spots and points. The pectorals are tinged with orange. 

 ■ Hab. Canton. 



Boleophthalmus campylostomus, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, ft. 52 ; 



Hardw. Acanth. 290. Chinese name, Peih kom kow, "Bent-mouth dog" 



(Birch) ; " Broken-mouthed dog" (Reeves) ; Mah hau kau (Bridgem. 



Chrest. 71). 



Of this fish we have seen no specimen, and it may eventually prove to be one of the pre- 

 ceding two species, but the colours and markings do not correspond with the little that is said 

 of them. It is a less slender fish than the B. aucupatorius, and has a comparatively low first 

 dorsal, with a shorter though acute caudal fin. It has a yellowish- brown colour above the 

 middle line, with crowded darker specks of the same and a flesh-red tint below, also mottled 

 on the flanks with darker purplish dots. The belly before the vent and the cheeks are un- 

 spotted. The base of the pectoral is dark, the ventrals and anal are ochraceous, and the other 

 fins are pale gray or dilute broccoli-brown. A single black spot tips the second dorsal pos- 

 teriorly. 



Hab. Canton. 



Eleotris flammans, Cantor, Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 29. "Bad. B. 6; 

 D.6|-l|10; A. 1|9; C. 15; P. 18; V. 1|5." (Cantor.) 



" E. superne violaceo-brunneus ; aid dorsali anterior i fasciis tribus undulatis violaceis, 

 flammco-marginatd ; posteriori fasciis undulatis quatuor nigris, radiis alarum aurantiacis, 

 apicibus nonnullis flammeis, aliis nigris ; aid caudali violacco-canescenti, fasciis tribus ccerulcis, 

 radiorum fiavorum apicibus flavis ; aid anali aurantiacd, fasciis quinque nigris undulatis, 

 radiorum brunneorum apicibus nigris ; alis ventralibus pectoralibusque pallide violaceis, radi- 

 orum flavor um apicibus nigris." 



" Hab. Chusan, canals and estuaries." (Cantor, I. c.) 



Eleotris cantherius, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 114; Hardw. Acanth. 

 279. Chinese name, Neen yu (Reeves) ; Neen u (Bridgem. Chrest. 76). 

 Bad. D. 6|-9 ; A. 8 ; C. 14 ; P. 12 ; V. 1|5 (ex figura). 



The ground colour of this fish is deep yellowish-brown with blackish-brown reticulations, 

 corresponding in size to the scales, and defined above by a dark line running from the eye 

 along the upper quarter of the height to the caudal. The areas of the meshes are paler. A 

 short blackish bar runs backwards from the lower part of the eye to the preoperculuni, and 

 there are some crowded blackish-brown dots on the gill-plate. The dorsals, aiials and ven- 

 trals have a pale neutral tint colour (bluish or pearl-gray). The first dorsal is crossed by 

 three branching and undulating lines, and the second dorsal by eight pairs of blue waving 

 lines. The anal and ventrals are marked along each ray by a crowded series of small blue 

 arrow-heads or chevrons. The caudal is also marked with chevrons, but they arc orange- 

 brown and umber, and the ground tint of the fin corresponds with that of the body. The 

 pectoral is wood-brown or buff, with blackish dots on the rays. 



Hab. Macao. 



1845. p 



