208 report-- 1845. 



and the dentition differs from that of rugosus. There are four, five, or six slender cylindrical 

 teeth on each limb of each jaw, rather acute, with brown tips, and not all of one length. The 

 interior ones are in a single row, small and pearly, a. few near the angle of the upper jaw 

 being slightly larger. Length 4*80 inches, of which the caudal is 1*12 inch, the head 0*60 inch, 

 and the length from mouth to vent 1*48 inch. 



Hab. Macao. 

 Periophthalmus modestus, Cantor, Annals of Nat. Hist. vol. ix. p. 29. 



''Bad. B. 2? D. 15|-1|12; A. 1|11; C. 13; P. 11 ; V. 1|5-1|5, united." 



" P. brunneus, cinereo-marmoratus ; abdomine albo-ceerulescenti, alls pallide Jiavis ; dorsali 

 anteriori fasciis nigris duabus ornatd ; radiis alarum nigro-jmnctatis." 



" Hab. Chusan, along the coasts of banks and canals." (Cantor, I. c.) 



Boleophthalmus boddaerti, Pallas (Gobius), Spic. Zool. viii. p. 1 1. 1. 2. 

 f. 4, 5 ; BI. Schn. 66 ; C. et V. xiv. p. 199. Gobius striatus, Bl. Schn. 71. 

 t. 16. Icon. Reeves, /3. 38 ; Hardw. Acanth. 295. Chinese name, Hwa 

 ya (Birch) ; Fayu (Reeves) ; " Flower-fish;" Tau (Bridgem. Chrest.77); 

 Icon. Reeves, Hardw. 291, 292, 293, & 294. Descript. of Anim. p. 150. 

 fig. 100. Bad. D. 5|-24 vel 26 ; A. 25 vel 26, &c. (Spec. Brit. Mus.) 



Specimens, procured at Macao by John Reeves, Esq. and the Rev. George Vachell, are 

 deposited in the British Museum and with the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Mr. Reeves's 

 figure omits the vertical bands which are conspicuous in his specimen, and are perhaps 

 rendered more apparent by maceration in spirits ; on the other hand, the brilliant pale- 

 green specks on the body of the drawing are nearly effaced in the specimens. Distorted 

 figures of this fish, with swollen gill-covers and a round open mouth, are drawn in its proper 

 colours on the Chinese earthenware. Mr. Reeves's figures 291, 292, 293 and 294, show the 

 fish as used for this purpose. 



Hab. Indian ocean, Malacca, Moluccas and China seas. Macao. At certain seasons it is 

 hawked through the streets of Canton. 



Boleophthalmus pectinirostris, Lin, (Gobius), Chinensia Lagerstroem. 

 Amcen. Acad. Dec. 1754. Osbeck, Voy. 1757. Engl, transl. p. 200. Apo- 

 cryptes chinensis, Osbeck, Amcen. Acad. iv. pi. 3. f. 3. Ap. pectinirostris, 

 C. et V. xii. p. 150. Chinese name, Fay-ye (Osbeck, Eng. tr.) ; Fai-ja, 

 (French tr.). Bad. D. 5|-25 ; A. 26 ; C. 21 ; P. 19 ; V. 1|5-1|5, united. 

 (Cambr. spec.) 



A specimen brought from Canton by the Rev. G. Vachell and deposited in the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Institution, corresponds with the few particulars mentioned in the passages 

 regarding this species quoted above, except that the colours have suffered from long mace- 

 ration in spirits, and can no longer be well made out. As the pectorals are mounted on an 

 arm-like basis, though it is short and not bent, I have referred this fish rather to Boleo- 

 phthalmus than to Apocrxjptes. The dentition does not seem to distinguish the two genera as 

 established in the 'Histoire des Poissons,' at least I can perceive no essential distinction between 

 the teeth ofAp. dentatus (C. V. xiv. p. 148) and of a Boleophthalmus. The rays of the first 

 dorsal of pectinirostris are all filamentous, the central one being tallest and the others gra- 

 duated. The membrane dark purple. Pectorals lanceolate. Ventrals small, infundibuliform. 

 Fins generally tipped with wood-brown, and a diffused brownish spot on the second dorsal. 

 Body brownish-gray, spotting effaced. Belly white. Scales very minute, the integument 

 swelling over them like papillae. Three canine teeth on each side of the symphysis of the 

 upper jaw are followed by eighteen very minute lateral ones. Twenty-seven horizontal teeth 

 with brownish truncated tips, which are not incurved, arm each limb of the lower jaw, and there 

 is a stronger interior tooth on each side of the symphysis. A small obtuse lobe projects from 

 the preorbitar lip behind the canines on each side. The eyes touch each other, and their 

 upper lids are granulated. Length, total 2'80 inches; length of head 0*62, length of caudal 

 0-50 inch. 



Hab. Canton. 



Boleophthalmus aucupatorius, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. 

 p. 148. pi. 62. f. 1-4; Descript. of Anim. p. 149. fig. 99; Icon. Reeves, />. 53; 

 Hardw. Acanth. 295. Chinese name, Kan kc pang, " Pursuing fowl-staff" 

 (Reeves) ; Kong kaipang (Bridgem. Chrcst. 72). Bad. D. 5|-26 ; A. l|25 

 vel 27; C. 17; P. 21 ; V. 1|5-1|5, united. (Spec. Coll. of Surg.) 



