ELEOTKIS. 



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1. Type. San Nicolas R., Little Fish Bay, 



Angola. 



2. Ad. Bengo R. at Quifangondo, Angola. 

 3-4. Ad. Benito R., Spanish Guinea. 



J. J. Moateiro, Esq. (P.). 



Dr. W. J. Ansorge (0.). 

 G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



14. ELEOTRIS FUSCA. 

 Poscilia fusca, Bloch, Schneid. Syst. Ichthyol. p. 453 (1801). 

 Cheilodipterus culius, Ham. Buchan. Fish. Ganges, p. 55, pi. v. fig. 16 (1822). 

 Eleotris nigra, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uran. Physic, Zool. p. 259, pi. Ix. fig. 2 



(1824) ; Cuv. & Yal. Hist. Poiss. xii. p. 233 (1837); Bleek. Verh. Batav. 



Gen. xxv. no. 4, 1853, p. 105, pi. i. fig. 3. 

 Eleotris mauritianus, Benn. Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. 1831, p. 166. 

 Colitis pacifica, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 235 (1844). 

 Culius niger, Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xi. 1856, p. 411. 

 ? Eleotris fornasinii, Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mosamb. p. 267, pi. viii. (1858). 

 Eleotris fusca, Gunth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 125 (1861) ; Playf. & Giinth. Fish. 



Zanzib. p. 74 (1866) ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 313, pi. lxv. fig. 7 (1876) ; Gunth. 



Fische Siidsee, ii. p. 188 (1877) ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 381, pi. xli. a. 



fig. 1 (1891) ; Pfeff. Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 7 (1896). 

 Culius fuscus, Bleek. Versl. Ak. Amsterd. xiv. 1862, p. Ill, and (2) xi. 1877, 



p. 42. 

 Eleotris soaresi, Playf. & Giinth. t. c. p. 74, pi. ix. fig. 4. 

 Eleotris klunzingeri, Pfeff. Jahrb. Hanib. "VViss. Anst, x. 2, 1893, p. 14, pi. iii. 



fig. 8, and 1. c. fig. 5. 



Fig. 14. 





ElfOtvis fused. 

 Type of E. l-htnzingeri. after Pfeffer (I. c). £. 



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

 length of head 3 to 3| times. Head longer than broad, scaly except 

 on the snout ; a groove on each side behind the eye ; snout broad, 

 rounded, as long as or a little longer than eye, which is 4^ (young) to 7 

 times in length of head, 1 to 2 times in interorbital width; lower jaw 

 projecting; maxillary extending to below centre or posterior third of 



