10 



GOBIID^. 



27-30 

 31-34. Ad. 

 35-37. Ad. 



Ad. & hgr, 



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 hroad 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 



Pig. 5. 



Eleotris pleurops. 

 Type. 



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

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

 longest rays § 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 1^ 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. 



1. Type. 



Lower Nicer. 



Mr. J. Paul Arnold (P.). 



3. ELEOTRIS BUTIS. 



Cheilodipterus butis, Ham. Buchan. Fish. Granges, p. 57 (1822) ; Gray & Hardw. 



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

 Eleotris humeralis, Ouv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xii. p. 216 (1837); Bleek. Verh. 



Batav. Gen. xxii. 1819, no. 3, p. 22. 



