24 GOBIIDJE. 



B. Pectoral with the upper rays silk-like. 

 Sc. 30 ; dorsal and anal with 7 branched rays; 



cheek naked 12. G. samberanensis, Blkr., p. 32. 



Sc. 39-45 ; D. 9 ; A. 8 ; cheek naked . . . 13. G. soporator, C. & V., p. 33. 



Sc. 45 ; D. 9 ; A. 8 ; cheek scaly 14. G. nigri, Gthr., p. 34. 



Sc. 52-60 ; D. 13-15 ; A. 11-13 ; cheek 



naked 15. G. paganellus, L., p. 35. 



II. Body more or less strongly compressed. 



A. Caudal fin rounded, not longer than head ; dorsal and anal with 10 



branched rays. 

 Sc. 55 ; jaws equal in front ; mouth extending 



a little beyond vertical of anterior border 



of eye 1G. G. liypselosoma, Blkr., p. 36. 



Sc. 55-63 ; upper jaw projecting beyond 



lower ; mouth extending to below anterior 



border of eye or not quite so far. . . . 17. G. ocellatis. Brouss., p. 36. 



B. Caudal pointed, much longer than head. 

 Sc. 30-35 ; dorsal with 9-10 branched raj-s, 



anal with 8-9 18. G. schlegelii, Gthr., p. 37. 



Sc. 48-52; D. 11; A. 9 19. G. lulgendorfi, Pfeff., p. 38. 



Sc. 50 ; D. 11 ; A. 11; caudal peduncle tw^ice 



as long as deep 20. G. polyzona, Blkr., p. 38. 



Sc. 60-63; D. 13; A. 14; caudal peduncle 



as long as deep 21. G. occidentalis, Blgr., p. 39. 



1. GOBIUS GIURIS. 



Ham. Buchan. Fish. Ganges, p. 51, pi. xxxiii. Bg. 5 (1822) ; Cuv. & Val. Hist. 



Poiss. xii. p. 72 (1837) ; Gunth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 21 (1861) ; Playf. & Gunth. 



Fish. Zanzib. p. 70 (1866) ; Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 20, pi. iii. 



fig. 2 (1868) ; Kner, Novara, Fische, p. 173 (1869) ; Day, Fish. Imi. 



p. 294, pi. lxvii. fig. 1 (1876); Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxxxii. i. 1880, 



p. 242 ; Sauv. Hist, Madag., Poiss. p. 363, pi. xxxvii. fig. 3 (1891) ; Pfeff. 



Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 5 (1896) ; M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, 



p. 144. 

 Gobius kokius, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 68 ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Fish. p. 180 (1850). 

 Gobitis russelli, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 75. 

 Gobius catebus, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 76. 

 Gobhis kora, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 77. 



Gobius kurpah, Sykes, Tr. Zool. Soc. ii. 1841, p. 352, pi. Ixi. fig. 1. 

 Gobius platycephalus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1852, p. 681. 

 Gobius grandidieri, Playf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 10. 

 Glossogobivs giuris, Bleek. Verb. Ak. Amsterd. xviii. 1879. p. 17. 

 ? Gobius spectabilis (non Gunth,), M. Weber, 1. c. 



